Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating to the late 13th century, with significant alterations and additions spanning the 15th to 19th centuries and a restoration in 1861 by Edward Jeboult. It is constructed of red sandstone and blue lias rubble, with Ham stone dressings, and slate roofs, the chancel roof featuring scalloped slates and decorative ridge tiles.

The church comprises a late 13th-century west tower, a late 15th to early 16th-century nave enlarged during that period, a South aisle and porch added later, and a rebuilt chancel. A North aisle and organ chamber were added in 1861. The tower is three-stage and unbuttressed, featuring a 19th-century parapet with trefoil openings and gargoyles. The South aisle parapet has quatrefoils bearing the arms of the Percy family. The South porch has a moulded semi-circular arched opening believed to be a reset feature.

Inside, the 3-bay Perpendicular arcade between the nave and South aisle has angle capitals, while the 19th-century North aisle arcade has foliage capitals. The chancel features a ribbed barrel vault roof, and the nave has a restored ribbed wagon roof. A fine collection of 16th-century bench ends, mostly with bay leaf surrounds, includes one inscribed "EG.SG 1660." The church also contains a Ham stone pulpit on a waisted baluster, a piscina in the South aisle, and two painted tin sheets detailing local charities from 1710 and 1672. A circa-1950 oak screen encloses the West bay of the North aisle.

Historically, the manor and advowson were held by the Percy family, Dukes of Northumberland, between the mid-15th and mid-16th centuries; their arms and insignia are represented throughout the church fabric and on the bench ends. A corrugated iron shed is attached to the southwest end of the nave.