Parish Church Of St Mary

The Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building located in Frome St Quintin. The church features a nave and chancel that date back to the 13th century, with later alterations including refenestration from the 15th and 17th centuries. A tower, built around 1400, is situated at the north-west end of the nave, and there is a south porch from the 15th century. The church underwent restoration in 1881, during which the south and west walls were refaced.

The structure is built with local rubble and flint, accented with freestone dressings. It has clay-tile roofs with stone slab eaves and stone gable copings, topped with 19th-century crosses at the apexes. The chancel has two bays, featuring two 13th-century lancets on the north wall, a 17th-century window on the south wall, and a lancet. There is also a blocked doorway. The nave includes 14th and 15th-century refenestration. The north tower is two stages high and is capped with a later embattled parapet. The north wall has a restored doorway with a segmental-pointed head. The bell chamber contains windows with one trefoiled ogee light and pierced stone filling.

The south porch retains a 15th-century outer archway that is two-centred and composed of two orders; the inner order features responds with embattled capitals and moulded bases. Inside, the nave and chancel are topped with wagon roofs. The chancel arch is two-centred with wave-mouldings and a sunk quadrant between, where the outer is continuous and the inner dies into the responds.

The font is made of Purbeck marble and features an octagonal bowl with two blind panels on each face, supported by a cylindrical stem and base, dating to around 1200. In the chancel, there is a tapering slab of Purbeck marble with an incised cross, a coffin-lid from the 13th century. The church also contains wall monuments, including those for the Bakers from 1803 and 1806, which is a white marble oval tablet with a blank shield by T King of Bath, and a monument for Thomas and Mary Bridge from 1793 and 1833, which includes a shield of arms. Additionally, there is a medieval corbel carved with two heads, reset on the porch.