Church of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with substantial elements from the 15th century, the 16th century, and 1867, when it was restored by E. Christian. The building is constructed of ashlar and banded flint and rubble, with ashlar dressings, and has gable ended slate roofs with partial stone-slate verges and stone copings. The church is largely in the 'perpendicular' style.

The plan incorporates a chancel, nave, south tower, and north and south porches. The three-stage tower is distinguished by string courses, an embattled parapet with gargoyles, crocketted finials to the corner standards, a rectangular vice turret with loops, set buttresses, and windows with labels bearing head stops. The lower stage has a two-centred south window of three lights with vertical tracery. The second stage has loops to the east and west, and the third stage features two-centred, two-light windows.

The south aisle has an ashlar parapet with a gargoyle and a window of three lights with a square head and vertical tracery. The chancel’s north and south windows are of two lights with square heads, also with labels bearing head stops. The east window is three-light, under a two-centred head with vertical tracery and a label with head stops. A two-centred north door features carved foliage spandrels and a square label with carved stops. The 19th century north aisle and nave have east and west windows of three lights with vertical tracery and head-stop labels, and north windows of two and three lights with square heads and head-stop labels.

The north porch has a two-centred, moulded head with head stop label; the south porch has a moulded, four-centred head and continuous jambs.

Internally, the north aisle arcade consists of four bays with two-centred, moulded arches. The piers have four shafts with moulded capitals. The south aisle features a single, moulded, segmental pointed arch with wave moulding continuous with the jambs. Respond shafts have moulded bases and capitals, the latter with leaf enrichment. The tower, chancel, and south aisle arches are similarly styled. The nave has a 19th century king-post roof, while the north aisle has an arch braced collar beam roof. A flat roof dated 1756, with moulded beams and circular bosses, covers the south aisle. The chancel is covered by a plastered, ribbed barrel vault with carved bosses. Other interior features include a squint, a 19th century octagonal font with quatrefoil panels, an ogee headed piscina, a sedilla with trefoiled tracery, a carved angel on a south side arcade respond, shallow niches in the chancel, and wall plates and monuments from the 16th to the 20th centuries, as well as largely 19th and 20th century fittings.