Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a Grade II* listed building located on Wroslyn Road in Freeland, built in 1869 by architect J.L. Pearson. It is constructed from squared and coursed limestone and features an old plain-tile roof with a crested ridge. The church is designed in the Early English style, consisting of a nave and an apsidal chancel, along with a north tower.

Architectural details include buttresses and pointed lancets on the chancel. The nave is adorned with 2-light plate-tracery windows, while the two-storey south porch showcases a statue of the Virgin and Child set in a niche, flanked by lancets, above a pointed moulded doorway with wrought-iron hinges. The west window is a striking 3-light design with graduated lancets. The north-east tower features a saddleback roof and billeted hood moulds over pointed belfry windows with engaged shafts.

Inside, the church has a reredos with a crucifixion and angels added by Pearson. It includes a piscina and sedilia, and a studded door set in a pointed moulded archway leads to the vestry. The apsidal vault and the two-bay quadripartite chancel vault have springers supported by pink marble shafts with bell capitals. The chancel is decorated with 13th-century style wall paintings in pink and red grisaille, depicting the Transfiguration and Passion, along with pink and red diapering on the dado and mouldings. A Gothic-style wrought-iron chancel screen is painted in black and gilt. The nave features a 5-bay boarded roof and similar grisaille painted scenes from the Life of Christ on the font and pulpit, the latter topped with a wrought-iron canopy. The porch has a quadripartite vault, and there is a plank door set in a pointed arched doorway leading to a passage that connects to The Old Parsonage.