Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary was built in 1878. It is constructed from rock-faced limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The church consists of a single-vessel nave and chancel, a canted apse, a south transept, and a west tower.

The nave and chancel, four bays long, feature gabled buttresses, a cornice, a plain coped parapet, and gable. The 3-light pointed windows have double-cusped pointed lights and hoods. A shallow gabled porch provides access to the northwest. A 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery is located in the south-east transept, with a stack in the east angle. The apse has a coved cornice with Tudor flower ornament, a 3-light window, and single lights to the angles, all with Perpendicular tracery, hoodmoulds with head stops, and a sill course. A cross-traceried light is set into the west gable, north of the tower.

The three-stage west tower has weathered set-back buttresses and a cill. It features a 2-light traceried west window, a square traceried window to the second stage, and two 2-light traceried and louvred bell openings, all with hoods and head stops. A top cornice supports gargoyles and a coped parapet incorporating blind quatrefoils and escutcheons. A lead-clad pyramidal roof is topped with a wind vane.

Inside, the roof features deep arch braced roof trusses with king pendants, longitudinal and lateral arch braces, hollow chamfered braces, and purlins. The chancel has trusses with collars and brattishing; two trusses have hammer beams carved as angels flanking a truss with pendants to the collar, which continues as a ridge piece to the transept, featuring rich mouldings to braces and purlins. The tower arch is of two orders with a hood featuring head stops. A timber screen with stained glass is situated across the traceried openings. A font of octagonal shape has carved panels and a carved capital to the shaft. A niche in the west wall contains a bust of W. Pearson, who died in 1856 and was a friend of Wordsworth. A monument to the Dickinson family, dated 1803 and made by Webster of Kendal, is also present. Other features include an organ in the transept, an octagonal timber pulpit on a stone base with blind tracery, open tracery to the choir stalls, and a panelled east wall in the apse, painted with symbols of the Passion, angels, the Blessed Virgin and St Peter, and scenes from the Passion. A brass altar rail rests on enriched supports. Stained glass windows from the 19th century are located to the east and west, with later 20th-century glass in two south windows.