Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church largely of the 12th century, with alterations from the 14th and 16th centuries. It was restored in 1889, 1891, 1902, and 1906. The church is constructed of coursed rubble stone, with lead roofs to the nave and aisles, and tiled roofs to the chancel and north chapel.

The west tower is of the 14th century, featuring offset buttresses, a battlemented parapet with gargoyles, and a stair turret at the southeast corner. Two-light traceried openings illuminate the bell chamber. The west side of the tower has a moulded arched doorway, above which sits a three-light Decorated window, both with hoodmoulds terminating in worn carved head stops, and a cusped niche above. The nave, aisles, and porches have plain parapets. Clerestory windows of the 16th century have two-light openings to the north, two three-light windows to the south, and two single lights to the east. The north aisle has two two-light traceried windows, partly restored, and a door in a moulded arch with a hood and carved head stops. The south aisle features a similar door and a three-light window to the east, complemented by two mostly 19th-century three-light traceried windows along the south side. Sixteenth-century porches have two-centred chamfered arches. The chancel has a low-side window with a cusped ogee head and transom, a similarly arched small doorway, and a 19th-century three-light window. The east windows of the chancel and north chapel are three-light windows with ogee tracery, hood moulds and carved head stops, some of which have been restored. A similar two-light window is present on the north wall of the chapel.

Inside, the tower has a triple chamfered arch on semi-octagonal piers with moulded caps; a similar double chamfered arch marks the transition to the chancel. The nave arcade consists of three bays with slightly chamfered Transitional arches resting on round piers exhibiting variously carved and moulded caps, some of which have been restored. An arch on the north wall of the nave leads to the chapel at the east end, while a chamfered arch on the south wall leads to the chapel, including a carved head corbel. Cusped ogee stoups are located at the north and south doors. The chancel features a double chamfered arch to the chapel with caps on small carved heads. A 19th-century aumbry is set into the north wall. A moulded trefoil-headed piscina, and a pair of plain double sedilia with a shaped armrest are also present. The north chapel has a segmental arched recess, a cusped piscina, and a 14th-century roof with arched braced collars and wind-braces. Fittings include a 13th-century font on four columns with strips of dogtooth ornament, a painted wooden winch bracket with a carved face above, and early 17th-century altar rails and a communion table. Other fittings and glass are from the 19th and 20th centuries. Monuments include a Purbeck marble tomb of Thomas Pigott, his two wives, and children (dated 1519), featuring ornamental blind tracery to the tomb chest, a canopy on slender Decorated shafts, and small brasses. A monument to Arthur, Lord Grey de Wilton (1593) has a plain tomb chest with an inscription above, set within a surround of short fluted Ionic columns and a cornice hood. A stone tablet of 1610 bears brasses of Margaret Myssenden and a skeleton.