Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church located in Chettle Village. It features a west tower dating from the early 16th century, while the remainder of the church was constructed in 1849. The building is made from banded flint and ashlar, topped with tiled roofs that have stone copings at the ends. The church's layout includes a nave, chancel, north vestry, south organ chamber, and the west tower. The west tower is designed in the Perpendicular style, with the 19th-century additions incorporating elements of both the Decorated and Perpendicular styles.

The west tower has two stages separated by weathered strings, an embattled parapet, and weathered buttresses that are diagonal to the west and square set to the east. The belfry features windows with two lights under four-centred heads. The nave and chancel windows consist of one and two lights under square heads, while the east chancel window has three lights with Perpendicular tracery beneath a pointed head, complete with a label that has carved stops. The vestry and organ chamber windows are two-light windows with curvilinear tracery under pointed heads, also featuring labels with carved stops. A west doorway has a four-centred head with two chamfered orders, and above it is a three-light, three-centred window with Perpendicular tracery.

Inside, the church has a moulded, pointed tower arch and a pointed chancel arch with two chamfered orders. The nave roof is supported by a 19th-century arch-braced scissor-truss design that springs from carved head corbels. The chancel, vestry, and organ chamber have collar-truss roofs with ashlar pieces. There is a rectangular stone pulpit from the 19th century featuring blind tracery, a traceried vestry screen, and 19th-century pews with fluted ends. The church also contains a 19th-century octagonal font, encaustic tiles in the chancel, and a beamed tower ceiling with painted decoration. Various monuments from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries are present, including notable memorials to Thomas and Ann Chafin from 1705 and to George and Elizabeth Chafin from 1766.