Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a 16th-century church with origins dating back to the 12th century, incorporating fragments reused from Marton Priory. The church is constructed of rubble and cobblestone, with some coursed squared stone, and has a Welsh slate roof. It consists of a three-bay nave (four bays internally), a southern tower porch, and a lower three-bay chancel.

The tower porch is divided into two stages with moulded strings; it features offset angle buttresses, a segmental-arched doorway with reused tracery in the head and a 20th-century board door, and a weathered image above the door. The upper stage has a cusped-headed louvred belfry light with a fragment of a top of an image niche above. A tall parapet with moulded coping sits atop the porch, with chamfered slit windows to the lower stage and a belfry window similar to the one below. To the right of the tower are two two-light windows with cusped heads and hollow-moulded surrounds. The chancel has narrow chamfered lights flanking a four-light recessed, hollow-moulded mullion window with stanchions and saddle bars. The east end has offset angle buttresses, a stepped three-light hollow-moulded mullion window with four-centred arched lights, a hoodmould, a shield above, and a square, chamfered gable vent.

The north side of the church is primarily cobblestone with rubble bands, except for the east end of the chancel and the nave, which are of coursed squared stone. The nave is windowless, featuring stepped buttresses at the east end and a shorter buttress at the west end. The chancel has a narrow chamfered light at the east end. The west end has an offset below a three-light hollow-moulded mullion window with cusped lights; a chamfered slit window sits in the gable, and a rainwater head dated 1890 is on the right.

Inside, the tower porch features a Perpendicular-style Tudor-arched panelled inner door with moulded ribs, traceried heads and bases to the panels, and a stop-chamfered quoined surround. A rectangular opening is above the door, revealing a stone with relief carving and a deep wooden lintel, along with a moulded cornice and floor joists above. The chancel arch is round with imposts, while the nave has a moulded wooden cornice and king-post roof trusses with arch braces to the purlins. The chancel roof is barrel-vaulted with ribs springing from shields set on a moulded wooden cornice. Other interior features include a late 17th- to early 18th-century wooden altar rail with turned balusters, a circular tub font on an octagonal column with a moulded base and circular plinth, and 17th-century pew ends with trefoiled tops.