Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with origins in the early 13th century, significantly altered and extended in the 14th, 15th, and 19th centuries, and with a late 20th-century west vestry. The 1844 work was undertaken by Benjamin Ferrey. The building is constructed of banded flint and ashlar, with some areas of banded flint and rubble, and ashlar dressings. The roofs are part tiled and part stone-slated.

The church comprises a nave with north and south aisles, a south chapel, a central crossing with a tower, a chancel, and a south porch. The chancel features an early 13th-century east window of three graduated lancets. North and south walls contain 13th-century lancets, and there is a 13th-century south door with a chamfered pointed head. Original buttresses are present on the east wall, along with an original corbel table. The central tower has two stages separated by a weathered string course, an embattled parapet, and a north vice turret, square in the lower stage and octagonal above, entered through a four-centred head doorway. The north and east faces have 15th-century belfry windows of two lights under pointed heads, and a reset 13th-century lancet is located on the south face. The south chapel has 15th-century windows with two and three lights of perpendicular tracery and pointed heads. The north and south aisles contain 19th-century windows of two trefoiled lights, with a four-centred south door. The south porch has a pointed arch with continuous jambs.

Inside, there are three-bay arcades with pointed arches springing from octagonal piers with moulded capitals. The early 14th-century chancel arch consists of three chamfered orders with continuous responds. Similarly, the 14th-century south and west crossing arches are of three chamfered orders, with shafted responds featuring moulded bases and capitals incorporating 16th-century carved masks and foliage. The nave has an arch-braced collar truss roof, while the chancel has a plastered barrel-vault. A 15th-century octagonal font with vine scroll ornamentation is supported on free-standing shafts bearing shields. A 17th-century wooden font cover is also present, along with some 15th-century glass, 19th-century box pews, a 13th-century trefoiled piscinae in the chancel, and 15th-century piscinae in the south chapel. A much-restored 15th-century timber pulpit from the 19th century includes panelled sides and side standards with crochetted finials. Various 18th and 19th-century wall monuments are also part of the interior.