Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations made throughout its history. A 12th-century south doorway forms an early element. The nave arcades date to the 13th century, while the north aisle and chancel were added in the 13th century. The west tower is 14th-century, altered in the 15th century, and the south aisle, south porch, and clerestory are 15th-century, with further alterations in the 16th century. The church was restored in the 19th century.

The church is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a tiled nave roof, slate chancel roof, and lead to the aisles. The west tower is of two stages with diagonal buttresses, a moulded plinth, a battlemented parapet, and two-light openings to the bell chamber. Additional single lights are present to the west, with a moulded four-centred arch and a restored flat hoodmould, and a three-light window above. The nave has a clerestory of four two-light windows, Perpendicular on the north side and 16th-century on the south. The south aisle has a parapet and three-light Perpendicular windows to the west and to the right of the porch, with two ironstone windows featuring Y tracery; the window to the left incorporates nailhead ornament on the hoodmould. The east window is a three-light window of the Decorated style, altered.

The fine 12th-century south doorway features a round arch with chevron and beakhead ornament, carved imposts, shafts with carved figure caps, and jambs with sun motifs. The south porch, dated 1619 and 1833, has a battlemented parapet with an ogee niche centrally, and a shallow pointed archway. The narrow north aisle has a low, wide, chamfered doorway, two-light windows (one with Y tracery), and a single cusped window to the west. A 19th century vestry is at the east end of the north aisle. The chancel has a battlemented parapet, a small door with a Caernarvon arch to the north, a three-light Decorated window with ogee tracery to the east, and similar two-light and Perpendicular three-light windows to the south.

The interior of the west tower contains two-centred chamfered arches leading to the nave and aisles. The nave has four bays of double chamfered arches on quatrefoil piers with moulded caps, and a fine 15th-century roof with cusped trusses on carved head corbels. The north aisle has a two-light traceried window in the east wall with a round arch over. The south aisle features braced tie beams on carved head corbels, two small niches to the east, and a restored ogee tomb recess with a carved columnar figure to the centre. The restored chancel arch depicts chevron and triangular ornament. The south wall of the chancel has an ogee piscina on a half-column, and triple sedilia with round arches flanking a central ogee. A 16th-century roof has moulded tie beams.

The church includes a much-restored 12th-century font with four columns to the base, 15th-century doors, 15th-century benches with trefoiled finials, a 15th-century screen with pierced quatrefoils (the upper part restored), a 17th-century pulpit, and other 19th-century fittings. Monuments include a brass to John Everdon, a priest, dated 1416, in the chancel; a stone effigy of a cross-legged knight and an altered table tomb with a brass to Thomas Giffard (1550) in the south aisle; and an elaborate late 17th-century wall monument to the Wenman family against the east wall of the south aisle, accompanied by similar flanking tablets. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are also present.