Church Of St Mary'S

Anglican Parish Church. Built in 1836-1838 for Augustus Smith, Lord Proprietor of the Islands, the church is constructed of coursed granite ashlar with a stone-coped gabled slate roof. The building features a single-vessel chancel and a 7-bay nave with a north tower, designed in an Early Pointed Gothic Revival style. It has a plinth, cill course, offset angle buttresses, and corbel tables. The chancel has three east lancets with hood moulds, and similar lancets to the 7-bay returns. The west front features three graduated lancets above a concave-moulded pointed-arched doorway with a hood mould. The three-stage tower has buttresses framing recessed bays with corbel tables, lancets, paired lancets to the bell stage, and a clock. The interior has a simple chamfered chancel arch and some original panelling to the chancel. The seating is unusual, arranged as three ranks of stalls on either side of the central aisle, with some nave benches in two stalls and returned against the west gallery, which is supported on brackets. The roof features queen-post trusses supported from arched struts on wall posts on granite brackets; the plastered ceiling is divided into compartments by joists and purlins. A coloured and gilded wooden lion, originally from the flagship of Sir Cloudesley Shovel which was wrecked in 1707, is located inside. The east window is attributed to C.E. Kempe (1887), the west window to A.C. Ward (1937), and two north windows to Alfred Wilkinson (1967).