Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a late 13th-century church. It was restored in 1852, 1872, and between 1924 and 1928 by Talbot Brown & Fisher. The church is constructed of coursed squared ironstone with tile roofs. It comprises a chancel, a 19th-century vestry on the north side, a nave, a north nave chapel, a south porch, and a west tower.

The east window features three lights with intersecting tracery and a hood-mould with label stops. The north side of the chancel has a 19th-century vestry flanked by simple two-light geometrical windows. To the south is a three-light window with intersecting tracery, a pointed arch priest’s door, and a single lancet window with a hood-mould to the left. The north side of the nave has a two-bay chapel with a lean-to roof, featuring two-light leaded windows with hood-moulds to the north and east, and a single lancet to the west. A 19th-century stone extension provides access with a plank door in a pointed arch with a hood-mould, and an arched door in the middle of the north side of the nave. On the south side of the nave are a three-light window to the left of the porch, a two-light window to the far left, both in Perpendicular style, a three-light window to the right of the porch, all with hood-moulds. Three two-light clerestory windows are set within rectangular splayed frames above the porch. The south porch has a four-centred moulded arch, a gable, and a plain parapet, with a four-centred moulded arch to the south door. The nave features a chamfered plinth and a plain coped parapet with pinnacles at the south-west and north-west corners. The west tower has three stages, a pointed arch south door, a west window, strings at floor level, and small rectangular windows to the middle stage on the north and south sides. The belfry stage has a two-light traceried window, a crenellated parapet, and corner pinnacles.

Inside, the chancel has two-seat sedilia and a piscina. The sanctuary and choir have a 19th-century encaustic-tiled floor, a 19th-century stone reredos, and a timber barrel-vault roof dating from 1924. A renewed chancel arch is present. The north nave chapel has an ovolo and hallow-chamfered arch to the nave with an octagonal pillar to the west and a corbel respond to the east; a small bracket to the right of the east window bears a leaf carving. A renewed Queen-post roof covers the nave. The church contains a fine set of mid-19th century pews with carved poppyheads to the nave and chancel. The east window contains 19th-century stained glass, with other stained glass from the 20th century. An early 19th-century chamber organ is located in the north nave chapel, along with painted Royal Arms of George IV in the tower. There are early 18th-century and early and late 19th-century wall monuments, and a plain octagonal tub font.