Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that was rebuilt in 1895 by W.E. Mills of Banbury. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a concrete tile roof and features a curvilinear style dating from around 1500, influenced by both French and English designs. The church has a three-bay nave with an octagonal stone bellcote at the west end and a south porch. The chancel is two bays long and includes a south transept and a matching organ chamber or vestry to the north.

Architectural details include a moulded eaves cornice, impost and cill bands. The nave windows are stilted and feature curvilinear tracery, as do the east window and the south chapel window. The east and south gables have blind tracery ashlar panels, and the porch has traceried side lights. At the west end, there are two stepped buttresses supporting the bellcote, framing a transomed curvilinear window with an embattled cill above a thickening for the baptistery recess.

Inside, the church is complete except for the polychromy and is considered more attractive than the exterior. It features tiled alleys, oak pews, moulded arches for the chancel and north and south sides, and an altar with riddell posts capped by angels, along with a piscina. The nave has an arch-braced roof, while the chancel and transepts have boarded ceilings. The pulpit incorporates Flemish 17th-century carved panels, and the glass in the east window was created by H.W. Bryans.

The church was originally a small 13th-century structure, depicted by Bucklet as a plain two-cell church in 1825. It was rebuilt in 1842 in the Italianate style, which included a charming campanile, as shown in a drawing located inside the church.