[2] St Mary's Church was built in the 1790s to replace the Medieval one damaged during the English Civil War.

[2] The inside of the church was re-ordered in the 1860s and 1870s by the then vicar Henry Back, an Anglo-Catholic, to make it more suitable for Eucharistic worship.

He commissioned Arthur Blomfield to oversee the re-ordering and to decorate the church in a Byzantine style.

[3] It was during this time that stained-glass windows designed by Robert Turnill Bayne (1837–1915) were added, including one depicting The Parable of the Talents.

[5] The church's Resurrection Chapel is home to one of the 84 Lamps of Brotherhood that were made after World War II as a sign of reconciliation between nations.