Parish Church of St. Mary

The Parish Church of St. Mary is a late 12th-century building, constructed from squared green and red sandstone with Bathstone dressings. It has a plan consisting of a nave and a chancel, the latter with a large north vestry. The roof is slate, with stone parapets. The exterior features slim buttresses. A tall, square west bellcote has a pyramidal roof constructed of ashlar, with alternating bands of fishscale detail. The belfry windows are large, round-arched with chevron mouldings, containing two-light lancet windows with colonettes and moulded caps. The elaborate west door is of three orders; the outer order has double-chevron detail, the central order is on columns with scalloped caps, and the inner order has chevrons. The boarded doors have elaborately branched iron hinges, escutcheons, and handles. A single-light west window is set within colonettes with a moulded arch, as are the single-light windows on the north and south elevations, with scallop capitals. The south door is of two orders, both supported by shafts with variously carved capitals; the inner arch has chevrons, and the outer a flattened chevron pattern. The east end has a triplet of round-arched windows with beakhead mouldings on shafts, topped by a roundel. The vestry has a flat roof concealed behind a shallow gabled parapet; its large north triplet has a dividing shaft terminating in a cross-finial. A set of steps on the west side lead down to a basement.

Inside, the church has wagon roofs with open timbers. The triple-shafted, round-headed chancel arch has roll mouldings and prominent chevrons, with a dogtooth pattern above. The capitals are of varied types, including waterleaf, with one featuring a carved bird. The east windows have chevron-moulded arches on shafts. A painted corbel table is located on the exterior north wall of the chancel, now within the vestry, and includes one simple mask corbel, which may be medieval. The neo-Norman font has a square bowl with angle shafts, a central round pedestal, and outer shafts with spiral mouldings and scallop caps. It is potentially original Norman work. A stone lectern stands on four shafts, decorated with profuse Romanesque-style carved foliage. Modern 20th-century pews are also present. The strongly coloured east windows, depicting the Life of Christ, date to 1850 and were made by George Rogers of Worcester. The west window, depicting Stilling the Waters, and the central south window in the nave, portraying the Crucifixion, are of similar date. Further stained glass dates to around 1867 to 1882. A Greek-style monument commemorates Henry Jones (died 1837), depicting a female figure with a tall urn. A Gothic monument is dedicated to Thomas Prothero (died 1853).