Parish Church Of St Mary

The Parish Church of St Mary is a parish church located on St Mary's Road in Wimbledon, within the London Borough of Merton. The chancel dates from the late Medieval period and was largely rebuilt in 1860 by the architect George Gilbert Scott. The Cecil chapel, situated to the south of the chancel, was constructed between 1626 and 1636. The nave was rebuilt and enlarged in 1843, also by Scott and Moffat, in a late Gothic revival style.

The church features knapped flint with stone dressings and a tiled pitched roof that is steeply sloped to the eaves of the chancel and lower over the nave. It has a five-bay aisled nave with a low clerestory, a two-bay chancel, a south chapel, and a west tower with a spire, built in 1843, which consists of three stages and has a crenellated parapet. There are buttresses between the bays of the nave and pointed aisle windows with Perpendicular tracery. The Cecil chapel has small square windows with cusped designs.

Inside, the nave has compound piers that support galleries on the north, south, and west sides. The roofs of the chancel and nave have been renewed, and the Cecil chapel features a four-part vault. Notable interior elements include a black marble monument to Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, who died in 1638, located in the Cecil chapel, along with various other monuments. The church also has a late 19th-century carved stone pulpit and altar rail in the Arts and Crafts style, a 19th-century stone font, and an organ at the west end.

Stained glass windows include a 14th-century depiction of St George in the Cecil chapel, 17th-century heraldic glass, and a south window featuring three figures designed by Henry Holiday and executed by Morris and Co in 1923, along with another window by Morris and Co from 1925.