Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a church dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with a chancel rebuilt around 1853. It is constructed of squared coursed and banded limestone and ironstone, with lead and plain-tile roofs. The church comprises a nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch, and a west tower.

The south elevation of the chancel features a two-light window with reticulated tracery, a small lancet window to the left, and a south door to the right. The east window is a three-light window with tracery, set within a steep gabled roof with an ashlar gable parapet and finial. The north elevation of the chancel has a vestry attached, featuring 19th-century two-light square-headed windows and a three-light east window. The south aisle has three two-light square-headed windows of the 14th century with 19th-century tracery, and a three-light east window with Y-tracery and cusping. A lean-to roof has ashlar gable parapets. The gabled porch has a double-chamfered pointed arch opening. The north side of the nave features three two-light square-headed windows. A south nave clerestory contains three three-light square-head windows with renewed arch head lights, beneath a shallow pitched roof with ashlar gable parapets.

The Decorated west tower has a base of two stages with a plinth. It contains a 15th-century west door with a four-centred arch and quatrefoils in the spandrels. Above the door is a two-light ogee head window with panel tracery and flanked by statue niches. Small square windows with four-petalled tracery are set to each face at the base of the second stage. Clasping buttresses at the corners terminate in pinnacles with panel tracery, connected by flying buttresses to an octagonal third stage. Gargoyles are positioned below the pinnacles. The bell-chamber openings are two-light and are set to alternate faces. Further shallow buttresses at each corner of the octagon terminate with panelled pinnacles and flying buttresses, leading to a recessed spire. The spire has two tiers of lucarnes, and open quatrefoil parapets above and below the octagon.

Inside, a four-bay south arcade has early 14th-century double hollow and chamfered arches on octagonal piers. There are double-chamfered chancel and tower arches. A two-bay north arcade in the chancel links to the vestry, with 19th-century chamfered and moulded arches on a quatrefoil pier. Double sedilia with a piscina are within the chancel, and a piscina is located in the south aisle. Features include 19th-century roof structures, a Jacobean panelled pulpit, a plank and panelled door, and a circular font with a 19th-century base. Monuments include an inscribed tablet dated 1748 to the Lord family on the north wall of the nave, several 19th-century marble tablets, and 19th-century stained glass in the chancel windows and tower window, the latter likely by Kempe and one south chancel window signed by A. Lusson of Paris. The chancel floor is tiled.