Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating from the 13th century. The chancel was restored between 1843 and 1844 by Carpenter, while the rest of the church underwent further restoration in 1876 and 1890. The north aisle and tower were added between 1857 and 1868 by Slater. The building is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has a plain tile roof. It features a nave, a south porch, a chancel with a north lean-to, and a north aisle with a west tower.

The nave, which dates back to the 13th century, does not have a plinth. It has a small lancet window in the west gable end, positioned above eaves level, with two 19th-century lancets below. There is a blocked pointed-arched hollow-chamfered west doorway with broach stops. The south side of the nave has three windows: one is a 19th-century two-light window, another is a restored 15th-century window with three cinquefoil-headed lights and a squared hoodmould, and the last is a restored trefoiled lancet.

The porch, likely from the 14th or 15th century, has been largely rebuilt in the 19th century. It is timber framed with rendered infilling, standing on a 19th-century flint plinth, and features 19th-century bargeboards. The porch has pointed-arched outer and inner doorways and includes a medieval moulded octagonal crown-post, moulded tie-beam, and wall post.

The chancel is from the 13th century and has a 19th-century plinth. It features north-east and south-east angle buttresses, two restored lancets on the south side, and one on the north side. The east window is a three-light 19th-century design in a 14th-century style. There is also a 19th-century lean-to on the west side.

The north aisle, dating from the 19th century, is a lean-to without a plinth and has three paired trefoil-headed lancets. The tower, also from the 19th century, has two stages on a flint plinth, diagonal buttresses, lancet windows, and a west doorway. It includes a stone and flint chimney stack in the re-entrant angle with the nave.

Inside, the structure features a restored three-bay nave arcade in a 14th-century style, with doubly-chamfered pointed arches and moulded octagonal columns. The chancel arch is moulded and pointed-arched, dating from the 19th century. The fittings include late 17th or early 18th-century altar rails with twisted balusters and an enriched moulded rail. Notable stained glass includes an early 14th-century Virgin and Child in the north-east window of the aisle, featuring vivid green, gold, and red, and a complete design from around 1460 in the 15th-century south window of the nave, depicting three saints and three groups of kneeling donors. There is also a monument on the north wall of the chancel, a draped cartouche with shields above and below, dedicated to Thomas Jenkin, who died in 1698.