Church Of St Mary (Rc) And Gates, Gate Piers And Railings To Churchyard

The Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic) was built in 1891 in a Perpendicular style by W Lunn of Malvern. It is constructed from cut and dressed rubble with a Cotswold stone roof. The church features an aisled cruciform plan and has a small saddleback bell tower located in the north-west angle of the south transept. The exterior includes stepped buttresses, moulded copings, and four clerestory windows along with aisle west windows that have traceried transoms. Other windows are designed in a more conventional Perpendicular style. The complex five-light west window has low transoms and a stilted label above a four-centre arch-headed doorway, which is adorned with carvings within a hollow-chamfered inner order and decorative ironwork on the door. In the gable, there is a tripartite heavily traceried niche that contains a statue of the Virgin, topped with a crocketted canopy. The belfry stage of the tower features a different style of tracery in its flat-headed openings, and there is a circular chimney to the south of the chancel.

Inside, the church has a four-bay aisled nave with narrow chapels at the east ends of the aisles. The chancel arch is supported by three heavy ribs on corbels, and there are rere-arches and inner windows. The transepts have contemporary screens, and there is an altar-railing and possibly a reredos that are also contemporary. A window in the south transept was created by Paul Woodroffe in 1909. The churchyard is enclosed to the south and west by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys stanchions set on dwarf rubble walls. The west side features ashlar gate piers with crested capping and wrought-iron gates.