Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is an Anglican church dating from 1926 to 1934, designed by Sir Charles Nicholson. The church was intended to be built in stages, replacing an earlier mission church. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with stone window dressings, and has clay plain tile roofs with brick tumbling to the gable ends. The building is aligned northeast to southwest.

The plan includes a nave and chancel unified as a single space, with full-length five-bay north and south aisles. There is no tower, but a bellcote is set on the northwest corner, along with porches and offices in low ranges on the west and south sides. The restrained architectural style is Perpendicular.

Externally, the nave and aisles are arranged in three near-equal ranges, with the nave slightly taller and the ranges staggered at the east end; the nave is advanced slightly and the north aisle recessed more than the south aisle. The east end has large four and six-light Perpendicular windows, and a single-story range with moulded pointed arch doorways to the left and right, straight-headed lancets, and flat brick buttresses. A brick bellcote is set at an angle on the northwest corner, with a broach at its base and a saddle-back top. The north and south sides have four-centred arch three-light Perpendicular windows. The east end windows are similar, though the south aisle gable is blind. A slim chimney stack with small buttresses and a stone cap is present on the south side, and lead rainwater heads are set within small brick arches in the valleys of the west end gables.

Inside, the walls are whitewashed. Five-bay arcades feature octagonal piers and chamfered two-centred arches; the end piers are without capitals, and the arches die into them. The boarded timber roof has painted decoration on the soffits of the moulded tie-beams and king-posts. Similar painted decoration is found on the timber reredos, pulpit, and font cover. A low-panelled screen is located on the north side, and a chapel screen features carved openwork. Furnishings were designed by Nicholson. Stained glass windows, some by N. Comper, including the east window (1931), are present, as are east and north windows to the north chapel (1949).