Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a church dating from the early 14th and early 15th centuries. It was dismantled in 1875-77 and subsequently re-erected and raised by 1.25 metres to protect it from flooding. The building is constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof.

The church comprises a three-stage west tower, a three-bay aisled nave, a south porch, and a two-bay aisled chancel. The tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets surmounted by pinnacles. The west doorway features round arches within a moulded surround, topped with hood-moulds and headstops. Above the doorway is a five-light window with re-cut panel tracery and a hood-mould with angel stops. A canopied niche for a statue is located on the south side, damaged by weathering. The twin two-light bell openings on the second stage have small buttresses with offsets and griffins, surmounted by pinnacles and battlements.

The south porch includes diagonal buttresses with offsets and pinnacles, a pointed arch set within a double-chamfered surround and a hood-mould, and a pointed doorway in a double-chamfered surround. The nave and aisles feature a chamfered plinth. To the south aisle and north and south nave clerestory, buttresses with offsets are surmounted by pinnacles. The north aisle has single-story buttresses. Windows are straight-headed with three trefoiled lights. Upper sections are punctuated by a string course with gargoyles and battlements. The chancel is similar to the nave, with matching buttresses, battlements, and pinnacles. The chancel windows are largely three-light, straight-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery, the south aisle windows being under hood-moulds with badly weathered fleurons. Pointed doorways are visible within the chancel aisles, one under a hood-mould and another under a reused Perpendicular traceried window head. A single light window is found in the south aisle. A five-light window with Perpendicular tracery highlights the east ends of both the chancel and south aisle.

Inside, the nave has a north arcade dating from around 1300, with circular piers, moulded capitals, and re-cut double-chamfered arches. A re-erected Norman arch is located in the south aisle, featuring a single order of nook shafts with decorated capitals and chevron modelling to the head, with a two-light trefoil-headed window inset. The chancel has a double-chamfered arcade to the south aisle, with fleurons on the easternmost arch and capitals of octagonal piers and responds. There are two double-chamfered arches to the north. Remaining pieces of medieval stained glass are present in the west end of the south nave aisle. The east window contains glass from around 1875-80 by Morris, while a window in the south aisle is from around 1890 by Powell Bros of Leeds. A window in the north nave aisle is by Adam and Small of Glasgow and dates from around 1879.