Church Of The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a parish church with a nave of uncertain original date, a late 14th or early 15th century west tower, a 15th century south aisle and porch, 17th century alterations to the porch and aisle, and a Victorian restoration in 1855. The building is constructed of rubble walls with dressed rubble dressings. The roofs are tiled, with the exception of the aisle which is stone slated.

The west tower has two stages and an embattled parapet, with weathered string courses and diagonal two-stage buttresses. It features a west window with two cinqufoiled lights and perpendicular tracery, a quatrefoil above a two-centred head, and a single-light south window projecting into the second stage. The upper stage has two trefoiled lights with perpendicular tracery to each face, under two-centred heads, and gargoyles to the north face. The north face of the nave has square-set buttresses and two three-light square-headed windows with perpendicular tracery, with an ashlar eaves course. The chancel east window has two cinqufoiled lights under a two-centred head with a returned label. The south door to the chancel has a two-centred, chamfered head with continuous jambs.

The south aisle windows are two-centred, with three cinqufoiled lights and perpendicular tracery. The west window, a C17 replacement, has two lights under a square head with ovolo-moulded mullions and a returned label. The porch, dated 1650 on the keystone, has a two-centred arch with a pendant keystone and impannelled impost blocks. Its south door is moulded with a two-centred head and continuous jambs.

Inside the church, the nave arcade has two plain round arches with a square-headed corbelled opening to the east. The tower arch is two-centred with flat jambs, a single moulded order, and responds. The chancel arch is moulded and two-centred, with continuous jambs. The south aisle retains its original waggon roof with moulded purlins and wall plate. A 20th century arch-braced collar roof is present in the nave, supported by corbels. The porch has an original collar truss roof and the chancel has a boarded rafter roof. There is a 17th century octagonal wooden pulpit with reeded panels and chip carving (the sounding board is missing), and a 17th century cylindrical font on a cylindrical stem. Original 18th century box pews with fielded panelling are also present. A wall painting in the nave features a black letter inscription, alongside 19th century encaustic tiles and 17th century floor slabs in the chancel. Numerous consecration crosses are located in various positions within the church.