Church Of St Mary Barningham Winter

The Church of St Mary in Barningham Winter is a parish church situated within the grounds of Barningham Hall. The church's construction spans from the medieval period to 1830, with significant portions now in ruins. It is primarily built of flint, incorporating some iron conglomerate, and has plain tile roofing. The west tower, nave, and south porch are in a dilapidated state. The chancel is currently in use and features a west addition constructed in 1830.

The tower is distinguished by its diagonal buttresses extending to its full height, a two-light west window with cusped heads, and bell stage windows also of two lights with cusped heads beneath a quatrefoil. A tall arch leads to the nave, featuring chamfered jambs and polygonal shafts. Inside is an octagonal Purbeck marble font with sloping faces on a fat octagonal stem. The ruined south porch lacks a roof. A marble coffin lid lies at its threshold, alongside a moulded arch with only inner round shafts and capitals present. The south doorway has a hollow chamfered arch with shallow roll moulding and the north doorway, a hollow chamfered arch on plain chamfered jambs. Diagonal buttresses are present on the nave, though openings are missing from both the north and south walls.

The 1830 addition within the nave is constructed of knapped and galletted flint and is roofed with plain tiles. It has crow-stepped gables, incorporating medieval pierced stone quatrefoils and an embattled parapet. The west doorway features a four-centred arch with foliage and the Mott arms in its spandrels, bearing the inscribed initials "ITM" (for John Thurston Mott, 1785-1847) and the date 1830. Above this doorway is a three-light window under a four-centred arch.

The chancel is built of uncoursed flint, with diagonal buttresses. Red brick crow-stepped gables and a gault brick embattled parapet are present. A small, blocked opening in the west wall is dressed with brick. Two two-light Reticulated traceried windows are found on the north and south sides of the chancel; the north side windows are replacements. A centrally blocked priests' door to the south has an ogee head moulding with a trefoil finial. The east window is a three-light Reticulated design.

The interior features a boarded roof with carved bases added in the early 20th century. A gallery is situated to the west of the chancel arch, belonging to the 1830 addition. The piscina and sedilia are combined in a single arcade, with free-standing slender piers having double roll moulded arches under a continuous hood mould, and a trefoil-headed fourth arch. Fragments of 15th-century glass are within the north window (west), while fragments of Dutch glass dating to 1613, originally from Barningham Hall and inserted in 1955, are in the north window and the east window. A Charles I achievement is also incorporated in the east window. A military brass commemorating John Wynter, circa 1412, from London D, is on the south wall, having been restored and mounted on wood. A memorial reredos in Portland stone displays soldiers from the 1914-1918 war below a cross.