St Mary

alterations in late C13, C14

early C15, and recent C20 vestry extension.

Ashlar and coursed rubble gritstone, with quoins, coped gables to nave and chancel, low pitched leaded roof to nave and aisles, and concrete tiles to chancel and south porch.

Square west tower with recessed octagonal spire mid to late C14, nave with Perpendicular clerestory, north and south aisles and a perpendicular south porch.

South aisle with Perpendicular three-light flat-headed west window and two south wall pointed arched windows below hoodmoulds with carved stops, one with intersecting tracery, one with reticulated tracery, both with moulded surrounds.Three-light windows with intersecting tracery to east end.

Within chancel moulded eaves string course with carved corbels for earlier chancel roof.

Former squint to chancel north wall, now with C17 carved cover.

Piscina to south aisle side wall with cusped head, and at west end of aisle, a Romanesque drum font with cable moulding.

Tomb recess in north aisle wall with recumbent effigy believed to be of Sir William de Wakebridge d. 1369.

SK3454 : Crich, St. Mary's Church: Tomb recess with effigy believed to be of Sir William Wakebridge (d.1369)

© Michael Garlick

Chancel south wall has alabaster table tomb with the figure of a knight in armour, to Godfrey Beresford d. 1513.

Chancel north wall has alabaster table tomb to John Clay d. 1632 and two wives.

Alabaster slab set in wall, with carved full height portraits to German Pole d. 1588 and his wife.

Classical wall monument to German Wheatcroft d. 1857 to chancel north wall, and an inscription board nearby seemingly associated with the Clay Monument.

C14 chancel screen, with three-light side bays, cusped headings to lights, and pierced panel to base.