The Old Church Of St Mary

The Old Church of St Mary is a church dating from the 12th century, with rebuildings in 1666, 1743, and the 19th century. It was restored from dereliction in the 1830s for Augustus Smith, Lord Proprietor of the Islands, and underwent a second restoration in 1890 for Rev W.E. Groves. The church is constructed of roughly coursed rubble granite with ashlar dressings and features a stone-coped gabled slate roof. It has a single-cell plan with a north porch.

The east gable, rebuilt in 1743, includes two-light above three-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows, and there is an apex cross from around 1200 on the gable. The south side has a similar two-light mullioned window. The north side features a similar window in the center, a 19th-century round-headed doorway to the right, and a porch to the left that has a 1666 datestone above a segmental-arched north doorway, along with a chamfered surround to a small west window. The west gable has a bellcote supported by two unmoulded piers of rubble.

Inside, the 12th-century north door leading to the porch has roll-moulded jambs with scalloped capitals supporting a round arch, which features a solid stone tympanum. There are two mid-17th-century marble tablets on guttae brackets. The late 19th-century east window depicts the Crucifixion flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John.