Church Of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church built between 1886 and 1887 by C. E. Tate, with a 15th-century west tower. It is constructed from snecked and dressed stone with a slate roof, while the tower is made of rubble. The church features a south entrance porch, a three-stage west tower, a five-bay nave with aisles, a bay chancel, and a north vestry. The porch has a steeply pitched roof and a moulded segmental pointed arch supported by diagonal buttresses. The pointed entrance arch is complemented by plank doors with strap hinges.

The west tower includes a pointed entrance with a deeply chamfered surround, a hoodmould, and a plank door. Above, there is a tall three-light window with 1887 mullions and a hoodmould, along with a two-light louvred window featuring trefoil heads at the bell stage. The tower is adorned with diagonal buttresses and a string course at the base of the embattled parapet, which has four finials. The tall south entrance showcases a corbelled and deeply chamfered pointed arch with plank doors.

The south aisle contains four three-light windows in the Perpendicular style, while the clerestory has five pairs of lancet windows with cusped heads and a continuous hoodmould. The chancel features two-light and single-light south windows with cusped heads and foliate stops on the hoodmould, as well as blind arcading on the corbel table. The east window is a three-light design with reticulated tracery and head stops on the hoodmould, topped with a cruciform finial on the east gable end of the nave and the lower gable of the chancel.

Inside, there are four segmental pointed arches forming the north and south arcades. The south aisle houses a repositioned Romanesque font that depicts various biblical scenes with 13 figures and a tree of life, set on a base from around 1970. The vestry contains a tablet by Boundy of Kendal commemorating the church's rebuilding in 1886-87. Additionally, there are fragments of wall painting on the west wall of the nave, which are now unidentifiable.