Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating to the late 14th century, with significant alterations and additions in the 16th, 19th, and late 19th centuries. The church comprises a nave with north and south aisles (the north aisle incorporating the remains of a north transept), a south transept, a south porch with a tower over it, a chancel with a north chapel, and a former vestry to the south. The vestry arcade and entrance to the south arcade are now blocked and have been converted into a parish room. The building is primarily in the Perpendicular style, with the north chapel and former vestry exhibiting a 16th-century variant.

The exterior walls are constructed of dressed, squared and coursed rubble, with ashlar dressings, and partly of coursed rubble. The nave roof is slate, while the chapel and vestry roofs are tiled. The prominent south front features a castellated tower of four stages over the porch, with diagonal stepped buttresses, crocketed pinnacles and a slightly projecting ashlar stair tower. The porch has a moulded ogee arch with a floriated finial. The second stage has panelled tracery under a two-centered arch. The third stage accommodates a clock, and the fourth stage has two lancets to the bell loft, with attached pinnacles to the buttresses. Windows are generally of panel tracery under two-centered arches with cinquefoiled lights, though the former vestry and north chapel have mainly square-headed, cusped and uncusped windows with square labels. A remnant of an earlier window exists on the East facade of the north chapel.

Internally, the church houses four-bay 14th-century nave arcades, and a three-bay 16th-century chancel arcade and North chapel arch. The North chapel arch features carved winged figures in the capitals, and a former rood-vice doorway exists in the respond. A 14th-century piscina is located in the south transept. The roof structure includes wagon roofs over the nave, chancel, and north transept; an angled wagon roof in the south transept; a flat ribbed roof in the north chapel and aisle; and a sloping ribbed roof with corbels in the south aisle. Medieval timbers are possibly present above the existing ceiling. Several monuments are incorporated, including a late 15th or early 16th century table tomb with a cadaver effigy. The pulpit, screen, and most of the fittings are 19th-century additions.