Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church built primarily in the early 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of roughly squared ironstone rubble with ashlar detailing and a lead roof. The church consists of a chancel with a north chapel, a nave, a north aisle, and a west tower. The east end of the chancel has a large three-light Perpendicular window with panel tracery. There are three-light Perpendicular windows in the south wall of the chancel and an early 14th century two-light window with Y-tracery to the left of the porch. The south wall of the nave includes a large three-light Perpendicular window with a square head and panel tracery, and another early 14th century two-light window with Y-tracery to the right of the porch. The 19th century contains a window to the left of the porch. The west tower is of Perpendicular style with a crenellated parapet and large double bell openings, each of two cusped lights with a transom under a single hood. A 14th century lancet window is located west of the porch. The C14 porch has an arch with continuous hollow mouldings. The inner doorway has a chamfered round-headed arch and an old ribbed plank door. The north aisle includes a 14th century west window with 19th century tracery, and several other Perpendicular windows of three lights with panel tracery and square heads. The north chapel features a three-light Decorated window with reticulated tracery in its east wall.

Inside, a seven-bay north arcade dating from around 1300 features octagonal piers and arches with both a hollow chamfer and a sunk quadrant. The Decorated chancel arch connects to the north chapel, which has a three-bay arcade with octagonal piers and double hollow chamfered arches. A recess in the south wall of the north chapel contains a crocketed ogee arch with pinnacles, and a piscina in a cusped arch with a crocketed hood. The chancel and north aisle have 14th century roofs. A monument to Thomas Wylmer, who died in 1580, and his family, located against the north wall of the north chapel, is constructed with Ionic columns, fluted pilasters, an entablature with a metope frieze, and a brass plate depicting kneeling figures.