Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church located in Brixton. The west tower dates from around the 13th century, while the rest of the church was built in the late 15th century. It underwent significant restoration in 1887 and 1894. The structure is made of stone rubble with freestone granite dressings and features slate roofs. The nave and chancel are combined, highlighted by a large 19th-century perpendicular five-light east window. There are long north and south aisles with 19th-century perpendicular three-light windows. The south porch has a moulded round arch with scrolls at the base of the jambs, and a smaller moulded inner south doorway. The west tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses with set-offs, a corbelled embattled parapet without pinnacles, and a crenellated polygonal stair turret on the south side. It features perpendicular two and three-light bell openings, a three-light perpendicular west window, and a moulded two-centred arch west doorway with a hood mould.

Inside, the church has five bay north and south arcades supported by moulded monolithic granite piers with alternating shafts and diagonals, along with moulded capitals and bases; the north capitals are carved. The arcade arches are wide and moulded with four-centred shapes, and there are squints present. The nave and the north and south aisles have unceiled wagon roofs from the 19th century. The furnishings from the same period include a carved reredos, pulpit, lectern, choir stalls, and screens. A window in the vestry is said to have come from Spriddlestone. Notable is a monument to Lucy Penelope Palmer from 1834, featuring a kneeling female figure by an urn in marble relief, created by R Walker of Bristol.