Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century, featuring a nave, chancel, and west tower. The aisles were added in the 14th century, with alterations made in the 16th century and the tower being rebuilt in the 17th century. The church underwent significant restoration in 1830 and 1882, with a late 19th-century south porch and an early 20th-century vestry added to the north side of the tower. The structure is built of coursed rubble stone, with a flat lead roof over the nave and aisles, and a tiled roof over the chancel.

The west tower has three stages, a plinth, a parapet, pointed openings for the bell chamber, and a tall arched west door with a modern round-headed window above. The nave features a rendered clerestory with three round cusped 14th-century windows on the north side and four three-light Perpendicular windows on the south side, along with a blind circular window above the porch. The south aisle has paired lancets on the west wall and Perpendicular windows on the south and east walls. The restored 14th-century south door has a continuous moulded arch and jambs, along with an earlier label decorated with nailhead ornament and carved head stops. The north aisle contains Decorated windows, while the chancel has small low lancets on the west and two-light windows on the east, with the north window featuring Y tracery and the south window being Decorated. The east window is a three-light window with reticulated tracery.

Inside, the tower has a triple chamfered arch supported by carved head corbels. The nave consists of four bays with a double chamfered arcade on octagonal piers that have moulded caps, and end arches resting on corbels, some of which feature carved heads. The early 13th-century chancel arch has been rebuilt and is supported by piers with wide segmental pilasters. The roofs retain some original timbers and have been restored in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The chancel includes a small aumbry and a cusped ogee piscina in the south wall. The south aisle features two trefoiled piscinas, one adorned with dogtooth ornament. There are 14th-century figurative wall paintings in the spandrels of the south arcade and on the north aisle wall. The altar table is dated 1634, with other fittings from the late 19th century and early 20th-century stained glass. The chancel also contains 18th-century wall tablets.