Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating from the mid-to-late 12th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the early 13th and late 13th centuries, and a probable 15th-century south chapel. It was restored in 1864-5 by J.L. Pearson, during which time the west tower, south aisle wall, and a porch were rebuilt. The church is constructed of Magnesian limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof.

The church comprises a two-stage west tower, a south porch, a five-bay aisled nave, a two-bay chancel, and single-bay chapels to each side. The west tower has a round-arched plank doorway, a slit window, a first-stage band, round-arched bell openings, a second-stage band, and a low parapet. The embattled south porch features angle buttresses, a pointed arched opening with roll-moulding, and pairs of cinquefoil windows with quatrefoils. The plank south door displays diaper-pattern studding, C-hinges with dragon heads, and three orders of arches featuring beakheads, animals, faces, and interlace. The hoodmould has rosette decoration. Capitals include interlace patterns and figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, with scallop capitals to the responds. A pointed north doorway has similar studding within a chamfered surround under a hoodmould. Buttressed aisles feature straight-headed, three-light windows in chamfered surrounds, a slit window, and pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery. South aisle and nave features are embattled. The north aisle has a 19th-century two-light window with Y-tracery; the south aisle has a slit window. The chapel to the south has a three-light, straight-headed window, a pointed plank doorway, and a two-light window with Y-tracery. The north chapel has a three-light pointed window and a two-light window with Y-tracery. The east end has buttresses and a 19th-century five-light east window with curvilinear tracery within the original double-chamfered surround.

Inside, the tower's double arch has semicircular responds and an octagonal pier. The nave features a four-bay arcade with pointed, double-chamfered arches on cylindrical and octagonal piers. Double-chamfered, four-centred arches lead to the aisle chapels. Pointed, double-chamfered arches define the chancel arch and the arches from the chancel to each chapel, the latter exhibiting brattished capitals to the piers. A trefoil-headed piscina is also present. Monuments include a Baroque wall tablet to Robert Wormley (died 1712) and another to Henry Masterton (died 1732). A medieval slab with an incised cross survives, along with a painted coat of arms of George III dated 1792 and a 19th-century tablet recording the establishment of Riccall subscription school. A 17th-century communion rail with bulbous balusters completes the interior features.