St Mary's Parish Church

St Mary's Parish Church is a late Georgian Gothic church built in six bays, with an aisless nave, a three-stage tower, a one-bay chancel with an apsidal east end, a south vestry, and a north organ chamber. The nave is constructed from coursed rubble masonry, the tower from rubble with a crenellated parapet above a corbel table, and the chancel and east end from snecked rubble. The roof is slate, with wide corbelled eaves; it has freestone dressings, including gable parapets and buttresses, an apex finial to the nave gable end, and chevron-ornamented eaves bands at the east end which sweep out to the apse, which has a battered base. Lancet openings are present on the tower, paired on the north and south sides of the top stage and on the bottom of the west side; a later lean-to has been added to the north side with a pointed entrance. The nave windows are tall and pointed, with hood moulds; a squared recess contains an eroded coat of arms above a porch with rounded jambs and boarded doors. Paired ogee windows are found on the vestry and organ chamber, with round-arched doorways to the former and circular windows with dog-tooth surrounds in the east walls. Similar hood moulds with carved head stops are present on the apse lancets. A recessed tablet on the north side commemorates members of the Wellington family from the 1760s, and beside it is an early 18th century monument to Richard Wellington, who died in 1732.

The churchyard contains numerous fine stone early 19th century memorials and some 18th century tombstones, including one with a pedestal and urn to John Jones (1827), and several Roman sarcophagus-type memorials.

Inside, the church retains a gallery with a Gothic timber front, supported by tall cast-iron columns, on the north and west sides, accessible by two staircases with moulded tread ends; a choir vestry is located under the tower. A bold tripartite screen with cylindrical piers, dog-tooth ornament, and foliage capitals opens into the chancel, which has a boarded roof with trefoil cusping to the gable ends; the apse roof is ribbed and boarded, carried on foliage-carved stone corbels. A timber reredos with canopied niches is present, along with an Italianate octagonal alabaster pulpit, dated 1865 (a gift of Francis Trumper), supported by freestanding columns with carved heads. A stained-glass window by Arthur Dix, London (1906) is also present. A much damaged medieval recumbent effigy is located at the west end. The church bell is dated 1740 and was made by Evans Foundry, Chepstow.