[1] In 1852, a local landowner, John Hodgson, commissioned Philip Hardwick to undertake a reconstruction.

As the village served by the church had been largely abandoned, the rebuilding was modest and much early material and work remains.

[2] St Mary's remains an active parish church with occasional, monthly, services.

The central cross commemorates Lieutenant Geoffrey Stewart Johnston who was killed on 14 May 1915 at the Second Battle of Ypres and whose name is recorded at the Menin Gate.

[6] The monument is currently in a poor state of repair, with the central cross having lost its top section although it remains in the churchyard.