St Mary Nolton Church

St Mary Nolton Church is an early English style building featuring a cruciform plan with lean-to aisles, a four-stage tower, and a later polygonal spire topped with a weathervane on the northwest side. The church is constructed from bull-nosed rubble masonry with freestone dressings, and it has stepped buttresses and a plinth. The roofs are slate, with corbelled and coursed eaves.

The western facade includes blind lancet panels on corner tourelles flanking lucarnes above the belfry lancets, with paired square-headed windows below. There is a porch on the north face with foliated capitals and a stopped hoodmould. The tripartite west window features bar tracery in the center, positioned above a gabled porch that leads to a similar entrance. The aisles have paired lancets, alternating with single lancets in the clerestory; the south side of the chancel has four grouped lancets, and the east window displays plate tracery with paterae and a punched trefoil in the gable. A gable-ended organ chamber extends to the north, featuring a petal pattern roundel above a two-light window, with paired cylindrical stacks at the main eaves level.

Inside, the church has a two-storey ashlar interior with wagon roofs, which are boarded over the sanctuary. The nave is three bays wide, with the western bay of the north aisle forming a lobby beneath the tower. The tower has head stops attributed to Clarke of Llandaff of Prichard and the Rector’s wife. The chancel is one and a half bays, with a south vestry and a north organ chamber. The nave arcades are chamfered on cylindrical early English piers, with paired corbel responds featuring varied carved stops. The windows have filleted shafts and annulettes, and there is a continuous clerestory arcade that is blind on the north side of the chancel. Broad arches lead into the organ chamber and vestry.

Notable features include a fine war memorial in the south aisle and a Gothic triptych reredos depicting the Adoration of the Magi, created by J Coates Carter. The stained glass in the south aisle was made by W F Dixon of London in 1887, and the east window was crafted by Seddon. The church also contains Gothic furnishings.