Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with a nave dating from the 12th century, featuring four bays and aisles that were rebuilt around 1300 on the south side and in 1764 on the north side. The chancel and vestry were added in the 13th century, while the west tower was constructed in 1715, and the south porch was built in 1860, along with some minor later additions. The church's walls are made of flint, with some malmstone and ironstone used for the tower, and it has stone dressings. The windows are mostly Victorian Gothic, featuring small coupled cusped lancets, with tracery present in the chancel and small buttresses. The roof is tiled and extends to a low eaves above the aisles. The slender, plain tower has battlements and tall narrow openings.

Inside, the nave arcade consists of plain recessed arches supported by circular columns with square mouldings above scalloped capitals. The chancel includes a piscina, sedilia with cusps within the arches, and an aumbry. A 12th-century Purbeck square font rests on five columns. The chancel also contains several wall monuments, some from the 18th century, as well as two small brass monuments dated 1617 and 1698. The choir vestry, located south of the tower, features an altar tomb with iron rails from the late 17th and early 18th centuries dedicated to the Bilson family. Notably, the open framed wood chancel arch is an unusual feature.