Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is an Anglican parish church largely rebuilt in the 1878 by J.A. Reeve, with a tower of 11th-century origin and later alterations. The church is constructed of Cary stone, with some rubble, and ashlar facing, with Doulting or Ham stone dressings. The roofs are plain clay tiles, with coped gables and cross finials. The building consists of a two-bay chancel, a three-bay nave and a north aisle, with a south porch and a south tower.

The chancel has angled corner buttresses and an eaves course. The east wall has string courses and a gable vent, with a 3-light east window featuring 19th-century geometric tracery and arched labels with unworked stops. The north side features two 2-light windows with 14th-century style simple cusped tracery, and no labels. A pointed arched doorway with a label and unworked stops separates two wide 3-light south windows with 4-centred arches within chamfered recesses and 15th-century style tracery. The north aisle has a small wheel window to the gable on its east wall, with paired cusped lancets below, and a corner chimney. The north wall has buttresses, an eaves course, a 2-light plate traceried window in the east bay, and paired cusped lancets in the other bays, all without labels. The west wall has heavily detailed 2-light Geometric traceried windows. The nave has buttresses and an eaves course with a single-light cusped lancet on the south wall, and a wheel window with two cusped lancets beneath it on the west wall. The simple south porch has side buttresses and a crocketted finial over the plain pointed arch, which has a label with unworked stops.

The south tower has 11th-century origins, with two stages. It features a plinth, string courses, corner gargoyles to the upper string, and battlemented parapets with corner pinnacles. The first stage has a small lancet window high in the west face. A 19th-century 3-light window has been inserted into the south wall beneath a new string. The second stage has small 2-light 15th-century traceried windows with plain arched labels and wood baffles on all faces; a 19th-century octagonal stair turret with an outer door and a ring of quatrefoil windows under a hipped stone roof is attached in the north-east corner.

The interior features mostly 19th-century details. The chancel walls are roughly rendered and have a timber panelled barrel-vault ceiling. A low, cusped arched recess in the north wall of the sanctuary may be from the 14th century. A 20th-century alabaster and mosaic reredos is also present. The chancel arch is in 13th-century style with detached shafts to each jamb. The nave has king-post roof trusses and a timber-boarded barrel vault, with a 13th-century style arcade to the north aisle. A plain 11th-century arch with a label and imposts leads to the tower space. Fittings are generally 19th-century, with the exception of a slightly rural 15th-century octagonal font with a panelled bowl and shaft, and a 17th-century altar table. Several small 18th-century memorial tablets are present, mostly to the Rogers family, with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.