Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating primarily to the 13th and 14th centuries, with some 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of regular coursed lias and limestone with lead roofs. The church consists of an aisled nave, a chancel, a west tower, and north and south porches.

The south elevation of the chancel has two windows of the 14th century: two- and three-light windows. It features an ashlar gable parapet with two gargoyles and a shallow pitched roof. The east window is a four-light window with Y-tracery and three roundels, discreetly restored in the 19th century. The north side of the chancel also has two windows: a 14th-century two-light window with Y-tracery and a 14th-century single lancet window to the right, with a blocked doorway between them. An ashlar gable parapet with two gargoyles and a carving of a bat at the north-east corner completes the north chancel elevation.

The south aisle has two windows, three-light in design, and is 14th century. It has ashlar gable parapets and a lean-to roof. A central, gabled porch of the 14th century has roll moulding to the outer opening. The north aisle features three windows, also three-light and 14th century, with ashlar gable parapets and a lean-to roof. A gabled porch, similar to the south porch, is centrally placed. This porch has a niche above the outer opening and two-light windows to its return walls. The nave clerestory has four two-light windows of the 14th century, set beneath an ashlar gable parapet with five gargoyles and a shallow pitched roof.

The west tower is of the 14th century, with three stages and a division in the lower stage. It has shallow, two-stage clasping buttresses to the lower two stages. It has a single lancet on the north and south faces of the second stage and two-light bell-chamber openings on each face of the third stage. A broach spire with a diamond and quatrefoil frieze at the base, with two tiers of lucarnes, tops the tower.

Inside, the nave arcade consists of a four-bay range of 14th-century double chamfered arches with slender piers. The piers have hollow-chamfered projections to the nave and aisles and shafts with capitals to the arch openings. A 13th-century double chamfered chancel arch and a 14th-century chamfered and moulded tower arch are also present. The roofs were restored in the 19th century but retain some original timbers. Fragments of a vaulted ceiling are visible in the tower. The chancel contains a piscina with triple sedilia, tall 14th-century niches flanking the east window, an 18th-century communion rail, and an octagonal font. The royal arms in relief, with a pediment above, are positioned above the chancel arch. Monuments include those to Charles Norwich (died 1605) and his wife on the south wall of the chancel, Thomas Farmer (died 1764), and two other tablets on the north wall of the chancel. The chancel floor reveals indents of brasses. A marble tablet depicting George Bosworth (died 1804) with weeping willows bending over an urn, and two 19th-century tablets, are located on the west wall of the south aisle.