Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is an Anglican church rebuilt in 1847, on the site of a 13th-century church. It was designed by Francis Niblett and enlarged in 1857-9 by J.W. Hugall, commissioned by the Darell family. The church is constructed from brown sandstone with pinkish ashlar limestone dressings. The roof is mostly covered in decorative fishscale pattern tiles, with decorative ridge tiles, pierced parapets of varying designs, raised coped verges with cross finials, and crocketed corner pinnacles. The south side of the nave is tiled, while the south aisle is slate-covered.

The church comprises a nave with aisles, a porch with a tower in the northwest corner, two south chapels, and a small southeast vestry. It is built in the Decorated style. The three-stage tower features stepped angle buttresses, with a clock face surrounded by carved detail on the north face and two-light belfry louvres on each face. The corners are adorned with crocketed pinnacles and small flying buttresses, supporting a crocketed octagonal spire. The porch has a steep gable with angel corbels and an angel in the apex niche, and a stepped pointed arched doorway with elaborate wrought iron gates across a panelled door in the Decorated style. Most windows are two or three-light, with stepped buttresses between. The chapel to the southwest has a gabled form, while the chapel to the southeast has a parapet and pinnacles, a rose window to the south, and a large sculpted pair of angels flanking a four-light window to the east. The three-light east window of the chancel has an elaborately carved ogee hoodmould with pinnacles and angel stops. Both the priest's door to the northeast and the door to the southwest chapel have decorative wrought iron grilles.

The interior is highly decorative, with coloured and encaustic floor tiles, a painted roof, and painted and gilded stonework. The nave has arch-braced collar beams with pierced cusped decoration above the collar beam. A four-bay arcade runs to the south (with all piers being different) and a two-bay arcade to the north, both featuring pointed arches. Two clerestory roof lights near the chancel arch are jettied out as oriels into the internal roof space. The southwest chapel has trefoil arcading under the south window and 13th-century coffin lids on the floor. There is an elaborately carved wooden pulpit hood and a stone font hood. Most of the glass is by George Rogers of Worcester, dating from 1859.