Church of Saint Mary

Rock-faced rubble with free-stone dressings, and leaded roofs. Nave with tower over NW porch, transepts and apsidal chancel. A rich Romanesque style. 3 stage tower has porch in lower stage: round arched outer doorway with chevron moulding and bands; billet moulding to hood mould, and foliate capitals to shafts. Cast iron cusped open-work panelled gates. Similar detail to inner archway. Narrow round-arched window in 2nd stage, and tall paired bell-chamber lights with scallop capitals to shafts above. These lights are divided by red sandstone shafts with bands and foliate capitals to enriched corbel table. Short spire with arched pinnacles at angles. W end has stepped round-arched windows with cable moulded string course and continuous hood mould sprung from outer shafts. Central shafts form a high blind arch over the central window, with a blind traceried rose at its apex. Nave is articulated by buttresses, with round-arched window with banded voussoir head in each bay. Simple corbel table. S transept has paired round-arched windows, linked by continuous impost band forming small blind arch between the windows, and by cabled moulded sill band. Similar fenestration in N transept, which has small gabled porch to E. Apsidal chancel has foliate capitals to shafts carrying chevron moulded arches over the round-headed windows. Similar moulding surrounds small oculi above the main windows.

Nave of 3 bays, with transverse rib vaulting, the ribs sprung from red sandstone engaged shafts on high bases with trumpet capitals. Similar, coupled, shafts carry chancel arch, which is stepped and enriched with foliate bands. Crossing arches are also similar. Apse has banded barrel vault, and rib-vaults defining bays of E end, which has banded voussoirs to grouped pointed arched windows. The vaulting above them is pierced by tiny oculi. Deep splayed windows to nave and S transept also have banded voussoir heads. Fittings are largely contemporary, and include pulpit with interlaced tracery and red marble shafts, with similar interlace detail to communion rail, and arcading to reredos. Fine wrought corona over choir. Stained glass: E windows form a series (undated figures of Love, Faith and Hope), with stars in the oculi above. Figures of Saint Mary Magdalen in S transept windows, 1892.