Church of St Mary The Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a small church built in the Geometric style, comprising a nave and chancel in one space, a bellcote, and a vestry. The church is constructed of rubble masonry with red and yellow sandstone dressings, covered by a tile roof. The 1870 fabric includes a battered plinth with a string course above. There are two substantial diagonal buttresses at the west end, each with three offsets, which are likely original to that period. The Geometric-style windows generally feature two cinquefoil-headed lancets with a quatrefoil above, all under a hood mould. Some of these hood moulds have head stops, potentially reused from an earlier church. Built into the masonry above one of the north windows is a larger carved head.

The south wall contains a pointed arch doorway located near the west end. Much of the fabric likely originates from a former church and includes two unusual features: a corbelled sill in the centre supporting a few courses of masonry, which may have formerly supported a statue, and two jamb stones and the line of a former window in the wall above. Long projecting stones at the east end may have formed a flying buttress.

The roof is a heavy collar truss structure with stencilled foliage decoration on plaster between rafters, present only in the chancel. The nave is unplastered but was likely limewashed. Steps lead up to the chancel, which features encaustic floor tiles manufactured by or copied from the Maws Tileworks. A piscina is located on each side of the altar. The west window contains stained glass in a geometrical design; the other windows are plain with green margin glazing.

Notable furnishings include an unusual font, believed to date to the 12th century, featuring a rounded bowl with handles on opposite sides and spouts between them. It is suggested this may have originally been a stoup. The font stands on a Victorian base consisting of four shafts surmounted by carved heads and a two-stage plinth. A screen with geometric tracery and an IHS monogram, along with a pulpit of similar design, likely date to 1870. A memorial is dedicated to Thomas Pritchard, rector of the former church, who died in 1717 at the age of 43.