The Church
A grade I listed building, parts of the church date from 1323 or earlier; the nave and north arcade from the late 12th and the south arcade and south aisle from the early 13th century. It is dedicated to St Mary and St Peter. Of perpendicular style, it is built from a mixture of ironstone and limestone ashlar. The church has an early 14th century tower with clasping buttresses to the lower stages and angled buttresses above. The south porch was built around 1850. Inside most furniture dates from the 19th century but there are several alabaster memorials from the 14th and 15th. The re-cut octagonal font dates from around 1400. The church tower was restored in 1891. The graveyard is extensive and well kept.
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“The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.”
—Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899)
“If Jesus, or his likeness, should now visit the earth, what church of the many which now go by his name would he enter? Or, if tempted by curiosity, he should incline to look into all, which do you think would not shut the door in his face?... It seems to me ... that as one who loved peace, taught industry, equality, union, and love, one towards another, Jesus were he alive at this day, would recommend you to come out of your churches of faith, and to gather into schools of knowledge.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)