Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with significant fabric dating from the 12th century, 14th century, and 15th century, and was restored in 1869-70. The church is constructed of random rubble walls with larger quoins, ashlar dressings, an ashlar bellcote, and the upper part of the south chancel wall has been rebuilt in ashlar. Small slates cover the nave roof, while larger, thinner slates cover the chancel roof. It also includes a north garden store.

The west facade features a boarded door with a steep segmental head, nook shafts, scalloped capitals, a chevron outer arch, and a plain hoodmould. Above the door is a 2-light reticulated tracery window, and two round-headed lancets are above that, capped by an ashlar band across the gable. The gable quoins change color three stones below the eaves, and the eaves appear to have been raised with a roof pitch reduction. A Norman-revival bellcote sits atop the parapet gable.

The south facade has a boarded door, with moulded cover strips and strap hinges, and a flat, semi-circular tympanum. A round-headed lancet is to the left, and to the right is a 3-light Perpendicular-tracery window with external casement moulding. A parapet gable with a cross-gablet apex and stone cross is on the right. The chancel is lower and set back slightly, with a trefoil-headed lancet on the left, a buttress to the right, and a 2-light window with an ogee hoodmould and floriate finial. The gable is consistent with the nave, and there is a stone ridge to the roof.

Inside, the walls are plastered and feature a plain string course. The chancel arch has scalloped capitals to double responds on each side, nook shafts, a double roll moulding to the soffit, and chevron moulding outside. The roof is a 19th-century exposed arch-braced collar rafter design. The chancel has a 2-bay ribbed quadripartite vault off scalloped capitals to responds. There are semi-circular headed recesses on each side in the second bay, and a double piscina is set into the sill of the main south window. A plain octagonal stone font, likely medieval, sits surrounded by probable medieval floor tiles. A small, semi-octagonal pine pulpit is present, with an iron candle holder on a spike. A multi-layered pendant brass light fitting, with 8 candles in the nave and 6 in the chancel, illuminates the space. Prior to the restoration, the church had a tower and a western gallery.