Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a Grade II* listed church located in East Haddon, dating from the 12th to 14th centuries, with restorations in the 19th century. It features regular coursed lias stone with a slate roof, consisting of a nave, south aisle, chancel, and a west tower. The chancel's south elevation has a three-window range with 2-light windows that have reticulated tracery, likely from the restoration by Mackesay between 1872 and 1874 or E.F. Low in 1877. The east window is similar, and the north elevation of the chancel has a matching design with an organ chamber projection. The gabled roof has an ashlar parapet and corbel-table.

The south aisle has a three-window range of 3-light square-headed windows, with similar windows on the east and west sides. There is a porch between the first and second windows from the west end, featuring a double chamfered arch and a plank and braced door, with an ashlar parapet and a shallow lean-to roof. The south nave clerestory has a three-window range of 2-light squared-headed windows. The north elevation of the nave includes three 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, and the gabled roof has ashlar parapets.

The west tower is a Perpendicular style, three-stage structure with angle buttresses and 2-light bell chamber windows on each face of the third stage, which have cross transoms. There is a double string course and a crenellated parapet from 1673 with truncated pinnacles. An inscribed tablet below the south bell chamber window is illegible.

Inside, the chancel features a 14th-century double chamfered arch with 12th-century double nook-shafted responds that have leaf and waterleaf capitals. The nave has a 14th-century, four-bay south arcade with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. The tower arch is triple-chamfered, and the nave has a 19th-century kingpost and tie beam roof, while the chancel has a similar arched braced roof. Stained glass is present in the north and south chancel windows and the east window of the south aisle. The chancel's north and center south walls were completed by O'Connor in 1861, and the southwest wall by Kempe in 1883. There is a piscina with an ogee head and shaft below the basin, and triple sedilia with ogee heads adjacent. The font, dating from the 13th century, has a decorated frieze. A marble tablet monument to Clarke Adams from 1776, featuring a small urn above, was created by William Cox.