Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a 1858 church, designed by Henry Woodyer and built on earlier foundations, incorporating reused elements from previous structures. It is constructed with a stone base, flint walls with stone dressings, a plain tile roof, and wood shingles to the tower's sides and roof. The church comprises a four-bay nave with a north aisle, a chancel, and a west tower. The architecture is in the Early English style.

The main entrance features a double plank door with ornamental wrought iron hinges, set within a two-centre arched stone doorway flanked by buttresses. The north aisle has three windows with Geometrical tracery, while a possible former chapel, now a vestry, exhibits three trefoil-topped lancets. The rear of the church includes a 15th-century porch to the left of centre, featuring a four-centred archway with trefoil carving in the spandrels and a hood mould with label stops carved as angel heads holding shields. A Romanesque doorway with two unchamfered orders forms a round archway within the porch. A lancet window appears to the left and a two-light window with Geometrical tracery is centrally placed, with a three-light window of Geometrical tracery to the right. The vestry has a two-centred arched doorway with a plank door to the left and a trefoil lancet to the right. The left return has a three-light window with reticulated tracery; the right return features a two-light window with 19th-century tracery and a plate-tracery window with three lancets at the base and a rose window above, culminating in a two-light window to the gable.

Inside, the nave floor is paved with memorial tablets, mainly dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. A reset medieval brass is located to the left of the chancel arch. A wall monument in the chancel commemorates Richard Lybbe, dating from around 1599, depicting two kneeling figures with a central prayer desk and armorial bearings above. The font, dating to around 1858 and likely designed by Woodyer, is constructed of stone with an octagonal shape, a central column with reticulated tracery forming the base, and dog-tooth carving on each face. It retains its original wood cover with a decorative brass handle. The pulpit, also likely by Woodyer, has a stone base and an octagonal wooden structure with linen fold panels to each side and perpendicular tracery at the top, adorned with ball-flower decoration on the frieze. The chancel floor is laid with patterned glazed encaustic tiles. The church contains 19th-century choir stalls and wooden panelling in the chancel, along with wooden pews in the nave, all likely designed by Woodyer. The east window of the aisle, dating from around 1858, is the work of John Hardman. The church is notable for its high-quality interior, including good 19th-century stained glass in most windows and a curved principal roof to both the nave and aisle, with wind braces.