Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating to 1868, designed by George Evans. It is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and has a tiled, gable-ended roof with stone copings. The church plan includes a nave, chancel, south tower/porch, south aisle, and north vestry/organ chamber. The architecture is in the Early English style.

The south tower/porch is buttressed, without distinct stages, featuring a two-centred moulded arch with shafted jambs and stiff-leaf capitals, surmounted by a label with head stops. An ashlar vice turret is situated to the west, and above the arch is a lancet with a labelled head stop. The tower's arcaded bell openings have three arches on each face, with the two outermost arches being blind. The top is a broachspire with gablets. Other windows are mainly lancets with labels and carved stops. The west window comprises three graduated lancets. The south chancel window has a two-centred head and plate tracery. The vestry features an octagonal stack and a west door with shafted jambs.

Inside, the chancel arch is moulded and two-centred, with marble shafted jambs boasting carved capitals and a label with carved stops. A two-bay, two-centred arcade has flat soffits and plain jambs, with a massive round central pier featuring a carved capital. The vestry/organ chamber arch is segmental pointed with flat soffits and jambs. The nave roof is four-bay and sub-divided with arch-braced collars, king-posts, and struts, spring-from corbels. The scissor-braced sub-principals spring from wall-plates. A quadripartite, ribbed stone vault covers the chancel, springing from marble vaulting shafts with carved capitals and corbels, and terminating in an apsidal end. A 12th-century circular font with foliate scroll decoration has been recut in the 19th century and sits on a cylindrical pier with a square base. A 19th-century wooden font with shafted arcading rests on a stone base. Other features include 19th-century pews, trefoiled rere-arches, a 17th-century brass wall memorial to Thomas Lawrence, and glasswork from the 19th and 20th centuries.