Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, with substantial restoration and enlargement around 1866 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is constructed of limestone rubble with marlstone and limestone ashlar dressings, covered by lead and concrete plain-tile roofs. The church comprises a chancel, a south-east chapel, a north-east vestry, a nave with north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel retains a two-light traceried 14th-century window on its south side, while the north window and rebuilt east wall with its three-light window are 19th-century. The south chapel, extending the aisle to the east, features two early 14th-century windows with cusped intersecting tracery. Its east window has a casement moulding and Perpendicular tracery. A plain ashlar parapet, likely from the 15th century, runs along the chapel and is continued at a lower level along the aisle. A two-light window and a lancet window are found on the south side, alongside a 14th-century south door with continuous mouldings and head stops. The porch is mostly 19th century and features an entrance arch of two chamfered orders. The north aisle has similar windows, and a simple chamfered arched door. A steep-roofed 19th-century vestry to the east includes two two-light windows, possibly reusing some medieval elements, and a 15th-century three-light east window. The 15th/16th-century clerestory has two-light square-headed windows. The slender, late 15th-century tower has a crenellated parapet and crocketed pinnacles, diagonally buttressed, and contains transomed two-light traceried openings. A niche on the south side holds a seated figure with a shield. The 19th-century west window is of Perpendicular style.

Inside, the chancel contains a small 14th-century piscina. Two-bay arcades extend to the north and south aisles; the south arcade incorporates a 15th-century arch, with the rest of the arcade being 19th-century, along with the chancel arch. Two-bay nave arcades consist of two chamfered orders with octagonal columns and moulded capitals, dating to the 14th century. The tall tower arch, projecting into the nave, is 15th century. An arch leading to the south chapel from the aisle is contemporary with the arcade. The chapel has a 14th-century piscina, and a 15th-century roof with moulded cambered tiebeams and purlins. The remaining roofs are 19th century, with the nave featuring traceried trusses, cusped bracing rising from elaborate wall posts, and supporting the ridge beam. Elaborate oak fittings, also from the 19th century, include return choir stalls, a traceried rood screen, and bench pews with blind-traceried ends. A circular panelled font is likely 17th century, though it may be earlier. A fine 15th-century alabaster monument in the south chapel depicts two recumbent figures on a panelled chest carved with monks holding staves and rosaries. Fine 19th-century stained glass occupies the chancel windows, while fragments of 15th-century glass are within the tracery lights of the chapel.