Parish Church

The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is located on Church Hill and dates back to medieval times, with the tower being from the 14th century. The rest of the church was rebuilt by T H Wyatt between 1859 and 1860 and further enlarged by Clifton and Robinson from 1906 to 1908. The church features walls and roofs made of Purbeck Stone. Its layout includes a nave, a north aisle with two bays, transepts, a chancel, an organ chamber at the east end of the north aisle, a south porch, and a west tower. There are galleries in the transepts. The lower three stages of the tower are from the 14th century, while the top stage dates to around 1620. The tower is a plain structure without buttresses, featuring small plain windows and a parapet without battlements, topped with a lead-covered roof.

The body of the church is designed in a Gothic Revival style, with separate gabled roofs for the nave and aisle, connected by a central valley gutter. The main entrance is located at the west end of the aisle and includes a shallow portico with an Early English style doorway. Above the entrance is a large window with Perpendicular tracery, and the nave and aisle windows share a similar design. The organ chamber and transept gables have rose windows. An octagonal turret with a stone spire is attached to the north transept. Inside, the walls are plastered, and the roofs are made of pine with an arch-braced collar-beam design. Several 18th-century wall monuments from the earlier church remain, along with a 19th-century marble font. The churchyard is situated below the level of the surrounding ground to the south, featuring a Purbeck Stone retaining wall along the boundary, complemented by iron railings and gates.