Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church with a Norman nave, a Transitional north aisle, a 13th-century west tower, and a Decorated chancel. It was restored in 1872 by G.E. Street. The building is constructed from rubble stone, with tiled roofs on the nave, chancel, and tower, and a slate roof on the north aisle and vestry.

The west tower has three stages, featuring angled buttresses on the lower stage, double lancets in the bell chamber, and a battlemented parapet. The west side includes an Early English doorway with two orders, a restored 19th-century re-set Norman window with scalloped outer moulding and carved caps above, and corner gargoyles. The south wall of the nave has two 19th-century triple lancets, a porch dated 1688, and a Norman south door with a round rolled arch on patterned columns, featuring carved winged figures as caps. The lintel displays a diaper pattern, and the tympanum has a re-used panel depicting two fighting beasts. The north aisle has 19th-century grouped lancets and a much-restored 12th-century doorway with roll mouldings, zig-zag ornament, and three carved heads on the arch, along with carved caps.

The chancel features a three-light reticulated east window, a three-light Perpendicular window, and a two-light Decorated window with flowing tracery on the south side, with a vestry to the north. Inside, the arch to the west tower is pointed and triple chamfered, while the nave consists of four bays. The north arcade has Transitional pointed arches with scalloped outer mouldings and carved heads, supported by square piers with stop-chamfered corners, two of which retain original painted frieze decoration and lettering. The chancel has round chamfered arches leading to a piscina and sedilia.

Notable fittings include a 12th-century font, re-cut in the 14th century to an octagonal shape with carved side panels—some featuring figures and others with foliage—and a 16th-century cover. The 19th-century roof, glass, and other fittings include a carved stone reredos with glazed narrative panels. Monuments within the church include a stone tomb chest with a recumbent effigy of a knight in the west arch of the arcade, a brass in the north aisle commemorating Reginald Tylney and his three daughters from 1506, a brass of an early 16th-century female figure on the south wall, and a simple wall tablet to Sir Anthoni Grenowaye from 1619 in the chancel.