Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is an Anglican parish church, largely dating to the 19th century, with a 15th-century tower. The chancel was rebuilt in 1864, the church was completely rebuilt in 1869, and the tower was restored in 1903 by C.E. Ponting. The church is constructed of dressed limestone and rubblestone, with a tiled roof featuring ceramic ridge cresting and coped verges.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a north aisle, a south transept, a north vestry, and a chancel. The narrow, three-stage west tower is of the Somerset type, incorporating diagonal buttresses and string courses. It features a moulded Tudor-arched west doorway with a hoodmould and a four-light Perpendicular window above. The bellstage has two-light pointed Perpendicular windows with decorative louvres, a two-light window to the north, and crocketed image niches with statues of the Virgin and Gabriel on the south side. Buttresses extend to crocketed corner pinnacles of a battlemented parapet. The nave has a three-light 19th-century window to the south. The south transept is gabled and of the 19th century, with a three-light Perpendicular-style window and a reset stone sundial. The chancel, in a geometric Decorated style, has two two-light windows to the south and a three-light east window. A pedimented tablet commemorating Edward Wagstaff, who died in 1795, is set into the north wall. The north vestry has a planked pointed door and a two-light window. The large north aisle has three-light Perpendicular windows to the west and east, and four two-light windows to the north. A polygonal stair turret with chamfered arrow loops projects from the north side of the tower.

Inside, the porch beneath the tower has a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway to the stairs and a continuously double chamfered tower arch with a 1903 glazed screen. A plaque records the 1903 restoration. The nave features a 19th-century roof consisting of eight unequal bays with arch-braced collar trusses, curved wind-bracing to exposed rafters and purlins, and a polychrome tiled floor. A four-bay north aisle arcade is in a 14th-century style with octagonal piers and moulded arches. The organ chamber in the south transept contains a continuously double-chamfered arch, possibly of the 15th century. The 19th-century chancel arch is in a 13th-century style. The chancel has a three-bay arch-braced collar truss roof, a partly blocked pointed archway to the north vestry, and a small piscina in the south west window sill. Contemporary fittings include a 17th-century polygonal pulpit with richly carved panels (reset on a 19th-century limestone plinth), an octagonal stone font at the west end of the nave, and 19th-century pews. Stained glass in the east window commemorates Anne Warburton (c. 1878), and glass in the north aisle east window commemorates the Hartgill family (c. 1869). Monuments include a slate tablet in the transept to Rebecca Combe (died 1644), an Edwardian baroque cartouche to Georgii Gulielmi Camborne (died 1906), classical marbles to Joseph Lush (died 1827 and 1797) and a classical marble recording a charitable gift to the Wesleyan Chapel for John Hooper (died 1894).