Church of St. Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a complex building with a tower dated 1794, a nave and aisles constructed in 1859, and a chancel added in 1871, designed by Henry Woodyer. The church is built in a late 13th century style. It comprises a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel and a vestry.

The tower is of brick with Bath stone dressings, featuring a plinth, string courses, a cornice, a coped parapet, and four corner obelisks; the south-west obelisk supports a weathervane. It has a large mid-19th century west window of three lights, a small early-19th century arched window to the north, and round-arched louvred bell chamber openings on all faces, along with a clock to the east.

The south aisle features three square-headed windows: two with three cusped lights and one with four cusped lights, plus a two-light window to the west and a three-light window to the east, all with hood moulds. The south porch has a chamfered arch, a hood mould, a coped parapetted gable with an IHS carving, and three cusped lights on each side. The north aisle mirrors the south, with three square-headed windows – one with four cusped lights and two with five cusped lights – and a two-light window to the west with a hood mould.

The chancel features three two-light windows to the south, clasping buttresses and a three-light window with geometrical tracery and a hood mould to the east. The vestry has a cusped lancet to the east, a door, and three stepped lancets under a gable to the north.

Inside, the church displays five-bay north and south aisle arcades with round piers, moulded bases and capitals, moulded arches, and hood moulds with carved stops. The nave has an arch braced roof. The chancel arch is simple and moulded, the hood mould displaying carved stops representing wheat and leaves. There is painted decoration in the chancel and aisles, executed by Miss Sharp of Ufton Court, including a Neo-Quattrocento depiction of the Last Supper. All fittings are from the 19th century and include a font, an eagle lectern, a pulpit, and a reredos. Numerous wall tablets are present, notably in the tower to the Berrington family (with cherubs and two Ionic pilasters supporting a cornice), to John Berrington of 1826 (with fluted pilasters, cornice, and a coat of arms), to Hopson, and in the nave to Thomas Stackhouse (with a triangular pediment and open book above).