Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church largely dating to the 15th century, with surviving elements from the 12th and 13th centuries, and a restoration in 1880. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with dressed stone, and has lead roofs. The church comprises a nave, north and south aisles, a south aisle chapel, a south tower porch, a crossing tower, a chancel, and north and south chancel chapels. The tower has set-back buttresses, triple two-light bell chamber windows (the central one louvred, the others blank), a stair turret, and an arcaded parapet. A similar blank parapet is on the south side, with a lesser parapet on the north side.

The earliest feature is the south porch doorway, dating around 1200, with two orders of detached shafts with leaf capitals; the door itself is dated 1677. The chancel and the south-east chapel date to the 14th century, the latter featuring a two-light window with a cusped head. The remainder of the church is Perpendicular in style. It includes single-bay transepts, a two-bay south aisle chapel, and five-bay aisles, all with four and five-light windows with renewed tracery. Inside the aisles are tall, thin piers of a four-hollow section. The south aisle chapel, the latest addition, is entered through a two-bay arcade formed from two earlier windows. Most roofs are from the 19th century, but incorporate earlier carved corbels; the roof to the nave is dated 1810. Lean-to roofs from the 15th century survive in the south aisle chapel and the north chancel chapel, the latter retaining some painted decoration. A piscina is located in the chancel, the north chancel chapel and the south aisle chapel. The tower features fan vaulting. A staircase within the porch leads to a parvise, with an entrance to the rood. There is a 14th-century octagonal font, a medieval slab altar, a 17th-century pulpit with a sounding board, several medieval chests, two 17th-century chests, a churchwardens strongbox dated 1813, and chandeliers dated 1779 and from the 19th century. Two 17th-century coffin stools are also present, alongside numerous wall monuments dating from 1622 to the 19th century, by various local firms. There is 19th-century stained glass, particularly in the east and west windows, as well as brasses dedicated to George and Thomas Hodges, dating from 1684 and 1583 respectively. A 15th-century wall painting of St Christopher is located above the pulpit.