Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with a west tower built around 1500, a south porch from the 16th century, and alterations and a north tomb chamber likely constructed in 1716 and later in the 18th century. A restoration took place in 1892. The church is built primarily of flint, with some areas of banded flint and rubble, squared rubble and flint chequerwork, and render, accented by ashlar dressings. The nave has a slate roof, while the chancel is tiled with stone-slate margins and stone copings. The west tower features two stages with an embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses, and pinnacles with crocketted finials. It includes a blocked pointed doorway on the south side, a large square-headed west window of five lights with a square loop above, and two-light belfry windows with pointed heads and perpendicular tracery, except for the west window which is a plain square-headed two-light window. The nave showcases 18th-century round-headed windows with stone architraves and impost blocks and keystones. The tomb chamber has a similar window with an elliptical head and a reset four-centred head doorway. The chancel east window comprises three graduated lancets. The south chancel wall contains a two-light, square-headed window to the right and a similar three-light window to the left, with a four-centred, moulded doorway between them, with stopped labels. The south porch has a pointed arch of two chamfered orders and incorporates a sundial. Inside the porch is a reset 15th-century sculpture depicting the crucifixion. The south doorway features a chamfered pointed head with a plank door on strap hinges.

Internally, the pointed chancel arch consists of two chamfered orders, the innermost of which disappears into the responds. The moulded tower arch has flat soffits. The nave and chancel have plastered ribbed waggon roofs, possibly of medieval origin, adorned with foliate bosses. A 18th-century font stands on a square pedestal with a moulded cap and gadrooned base. 18th-century panelling is particularly notable in the tomb chamber. A hexagonal pulpit, also from the 18th century, features two heights of fielded panelling and steps with turned balusters. A screen between the chancel and tomb chamber may incorporate parts of a 15th-century rood screen. Various 17th, 18th, and 19th-century monuments are present, including a large table tomb with scrolled ends in the tomb chamber dedicated to Thomas and Barbara Skinner. Other fittings are mainly from the 19th century.