Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church located in Long Crichel. The west tower dates back to the 15th century, while the rest of the church was built in 1852. It features a combination of ashlar and banded flint with ashlar dressings, and has tiled roofs with stone-slate margins and end stone copings.

The church's layout includes a west tower, nave, chancel, and north and south transepts. The west tower is two stages high, embattled, and adorned with pinnacles and gargoyles. It has diagonal buttresses on the west side and square-set ones on the east. There is a vice turret on the north side with rectangular loops and an ogee-headed niche. The belfry windows are pointed and consist of two lights, featuring returned labels. The west window has three lights and pointed vertical tracery. A 19th-century south doorway has a moulded, pointed head and a canopy porch that displays a bishop's mitre.

The nave has a carved stone cornice and features two-light, square-headed windows with vertical tracery. The south transept has a brattished parapet, with a south window that has two lights under a four-centred head and a label with carved stops. There is also a single-light, square-headed window on the west side and a door with a four-centred head on the east side. The chancel is apsidal and constructed of ashlar, with crocketted pinnacles above the buttresses and an openwork parapet. It has traceried single-light windows with labels that have carved stops. The north transept contains lancets with returned labels on the east and west sides, a pointed, traceried window on the north, which is blank below the springing line, and a four-centred door to the east.

The interior, which could not be inspected, is described based on sources such as the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments and architectural historians Newman and Pevsner. It has a general form that is more Georgian than full Gothic Revival. The apsidal chancel features wooden panels with reticulated tracery between radial arched braces, and the roof is divided into small panes. A 15th-century Purbeck marble font has an octagonal, panelled bowl and a panelled stem, and there is a reset brass memorial to John Govys from around 1360.