Church of St. Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church built in 1869 by Richard Armstrong, with a vestry added in 1896 by E. Swinfen Harris. It is constructed from rock-faced Swindon stone, featuring Bath stone ashlar dressings, and has a steeply pitched tiled roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles and stone-coped gables. The church includes a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel, a north chancel aisle, an engaged tower with a spire on the southeast, and gabled entry porches on the north and south at the west end, along with a southwest vestry.

The windows are designed with geometric tracery, featuring two- and three-light designs in the nave between two-stage buttresses, and two-light foiled clerestorey windows. The chancel has clasped buttresses, while the north porch and the southwest end of the nave have angle buttresses. The single-storey vestry is supported by two flying buttresses and has pinnacles over square piers at the corners.

The tower is divided into three stages, topped with a moulded and foliated cornice and a broached spire that includes two tiers of lucarnes and a weathervane. A stair turret is located on the northeast side, adjacent to the chancel, reaching up to the second stage and featuring a semi-circular conical tiled roof.

Inside, the church has five bay arcades supported by columns with stiff leaf capitals. The roof is a plain arch-braced collar type with braced king posts. Notable interior features include a carved stone arcaded reredos with decorative painted panels by O. Connor from 1868, a stone piscina and sedilia, a finely carved wood chancel screen, and a carved stone font topped with a tall carved wood coned cover suspended by a long hanging chain. The west window contains stained glass by Clutterbuck, along with some 15th and 17th-century pieces, including heads in the window behind the organ. Monuments within the church include two brasses commemorating R. Travet and his wife from 1441 on the south wall of the chancel, as well as a Saxon stone coffin lid inscribed with a reference to Aegelwardus, who died in 1017.