Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church built between 1861 and 1866, with the date AD 1862 marked on the tower buttress. It was designed by J B Atkinson and constructed from sandstone with ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The church features a two-stage south-west tower with a spire, a six-bay nave that includes a south porch and a north vestry, and a three-bay chancel. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style, showcasing Geometrical tracery throughout.

The tower is characterized by offset angle buttresses and a stair turret that has a plank door set in a shouldered surround. There is a three-light window on the south side of the tower, which is topped with a hoodmould and flanked by nook-shafts. The second stage of the tower includes twin-light bell openings and is capped with an octagonal splay-footed spire. The entrance to the south porch features a plank door within a trefoiled surround, adorned with foliate decoration on the spandrels. The nave and vestry are supported by offset buttresses, and there is a pointed north door under a hoodmould.

Throughout the church, there are pointed windows, both two-light and three-light, all under hoodmoulds. The chancel has diagonal buttresses and a pointed priests' door on the south side, with single-light windows under hoodmoulds and a continuous sill band. The east end of the chancel features a four-light window under a hoodmould, with a quatrefoil design in the gable.

Inside, the nave boasts a hammer beam roof supported by corbel shafts with foliate capitals. The pointed chancel arch is complemented by a traceried screen, and there is a trefoiled piscina. The church also contains wall monuments, including one to Miles Thomas Stapleton, the 8th Baron Beaumont, who died in 1854, created by P Macdowell RA, and a Baroque wall monument to Nicholas and Mary Stapleton, erected in 1738.