Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating from the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th, 15th centuries, and a restoration in 1882. The church is constructed of roughly coursed stone with larger quoins, random rubble, and some herringbone masonry, with squared stone in the chancel and vestry. Slate roofs cover the nave and vestry, while the chancel has a tiled roof.

The church consists of a west tower, a porch, a nave, a chancel, and a vestry. The three-stage west tower features plain string courses, buttresses to the bottom stage, and narrow square-headed windows with relieving arches. A crenellated battlement tops the tower. An early timber-framed porch is attached to the west face, with rebuilt sides and blind tracery on posts and braces forming the doorway. The nave's south wall shows a blocked semi-circular arched doorway with corner shafts and cushion capitals, flanked by two geometric-tracery windows. A section of herringbone masonry is visible above the door and at the east end of the wall. The chancel features two reticulated-tracery windows on the north side and a butterfly tracery east window, with a boarded door providing access; relieving arches are present above all openings. A single-storey vestry projects, with a pointed arch to the boarded door and two cinquefoiled lancets in the gable. A crested ridge runs along the vestry.

Inside the nave, the walls are unplastered, and a semi-circular arch leads to the tower, while a wide arch connects to the chancel. Five tie beams support the roof, with moulded wall posts and braces springing from stone corbels, one depicting a human figure and another featuring leaf scrolls. A panelled, boarded barrel vault covers the nave. The chancel is plastered and has a stone-paved floor and a five-bay roof with king-post trusses. A late 19th-century aumbry is set in the north wall, along with a screen dating from around 1900, constructed of timber in a Norman style with a central semi-circular opening and chevron moulding. A hexagonal Jacobean wooden pulpit, with arched panels and strapwork, sits atop a 19th-century stone base. The octagonal stone font has quatrefoil panelling to the bowl, blind tracery to the stem, and a flat wooden lid dated 1668 with a moulded edge and wooden handle. A 19th-century organ case features crocketed pinnacles, an ogee arch, and blind panelling. Various 18th and early 19th century wall monuments are also present, including one likely dating from 1704, decorated with cherubs' heads, poppies, drapery, and a flaming urn. Some medieval glass remains in the head of the north-east nave window. Seven pendant brass oil lights have been converted to electricity.