St Mary

Norman style, with Early English-style chancel and Perpendicular tower.

MATERIALS: ashlar with tile roofs.

Tower has 2 diagonal buttresses, plinth, south 2-light straight-headed window with sundial to right: incised inverted semi-circle with gnomon and inscription: J 1624 L

top cornice with gargoyles and embattled parapet.

north pointed vestry entrance, encaustic tiles, and wall tiles

tall C15 tower arch with brattished capitals

ashlar south pulpit has 2 quatrefoils, dog-tooth moulding and angel corbel to book rest, timber lectern with swivel head

square font has pier and 4 small shafts, and early Christian style carving

?C11 or C12 slab built into aisle west wall has foliate carving in triangular panels, possibly from altar or cross.

MEMORIALS: some early C19 wall memorials from previous church, alabaster war memorial tablet in north aisle, 1628 and 1702 poor grant tablets.

The monument commemorates several generations of the Boulton family, which are listed on the faces, from 1735 to 1848. It was surrounded by railings which were probably removed to support the WW2 war effort. The south porch of St Mary's church can be seen on the left. The monument is grade 2 listed.

© Rod Grealish

STAINED GLASS: C19 glass to windows, good east window with groups of figures in vesicas.