Church of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is an early 19th-century Gothic church constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and coped gables. It is situated behind a tower and comprises a wide five-bay nave, a lower and narrower chancel, and a west tower. The nave features broadly chamfered lancet windows and buttresses topped with gablets, all below an eaves cornice with a plain corbel table. The chancel has three stepped lancets to the east window, flanked by set-back buttresses mirroring those on the nave. Stone steps lead down from below the east window to a doorway leading to a crypt beneath, featuring a round brick head and a boarded door. Lean-to additions, housing a vestry and organ, are set back against the north and south walls of the chancel, positioned away from the main nave walls, and incorporating lancet windows facing east. A boarded door, under a pointed head, is located in the north wall of the vestry. The west wall of the nave has single lancet windows on either side of the tower.

The four-stage tower has clasping buttresses on the lower two stages, with angle buttresses rising above and capped with gablets. The pointed west doorway has a broad chamfer and replaced boarded doors. A single lancet is set above the doorway on the west and north faces, with a blind lancet on the south face. Above a string course, the third stage has a pair of lancets on the west face and similar blind lancets on the north and south faces. A string course and corbel table are situated below the bell stage. The bell stage has two tall, louvered lancets with shallow buttresses between them. The embattled parapet is adorned with large angle pinnacles topped with pyramidal caps, and thinner intermediate pinnacles with saddleback copings.

The interior has rubble-faced walls and a plain plaster ceiling. The plain Tudor arch to the chancel, originally decorated with painted panels in the spandrels, was rebuilt in 1983. The lower stage of the tower serves as a porch, and the west wall of the porch contains a worn 14th-century effigy of a priest. Short screens, placed at the east end of the nave, conceal the vestry on the north side and the organ on the south side; above them is open Gothic tracery. Within the chancel, a cusped piscina and aumbry are present. The choir features a mosaic floor with fleur de lys decoration, and the sanctuary has a floor of decorative and encaustic tiles.

The font, originating from the previous church, is an octagonal Perpendicular style piece with quatrefoils in relief. It stands on a later stem and base; a brass band is affixed around the rim to secure the original lead lining, requiring some cutting of the face carvings. The simple polygonal wooden pulpit has blind tracery panels and is contemporary with the plain benches and choir stalls.

The east window, created by Hardman around 1845 and restored late 20th century by Linley Glass Studios, Halkyn, depicts Christ with SS Mary and Martha. It commemorates The Rev W Williams (died 1835) and two sisters, Mary Jones (died 1826) and Eliza Griffith (died 1845), and incorporates some medieval glass in its marginal panes. Two windows in the north wall of the nave, dating around 1900, depict Christ as the Good Shepherd and as the Light of the World.