Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates back to around 1200 and is built in a Transitional style. It was altered in 1828 and then rebuilt and extended in 1875 by architect William White in a Muscular Gothic style. The church features a three-bay nave and a continuous one-bay apsidal chancel, constructed from local limestone rubble. On each side of the nave, there are four massive flying buttresses. At the west end, there is a combined porch and vestry with a pent roof, and a tall ashlar bellcote sits atop a steeply pitched plain tile roof.

The church has semi-circular headed windows on the north and south sides, dating from around 1200, except for the west bay windows, which were added in 1875. There is a blocked sanctus window on the south side of the chancel, and a bulls-eye west window with three lights. The east window, in the Early English style, was also added in 1875. The interior is plastered and accessed through a Norman style doorway. It features a stone vaulted roof with four bays, supported by octagonal corbels, with chamfered transverse ribs and diagonal ribs that intersect at an apex, creating a quadripartite pattern. The western two bays are part of the restoration.

Inside the nave, there are Perpendicular style elements, entrances to the rood, and a scraped octagonal font from around 1450. The Jacobean pulpit contains medieval work, and the royal arms from 1660 are located at the west end. The chancel includes a double piscina with Carnaervon heads, a reredos from 1875, and a Jacobean chair. There is also fragmentary medieval glass in the north windows, while the south windows feature glass by Sir Ninian Comper.