Wootton Fitzpaine Parish Church

The parish church at Wootton Fitzpaine, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, was heavily restored in 1872 by Birch. It consists of a central tower, a nave, a chancel, a north transept and vestry, a south chapel, and a south porch. The church is constructed of rubble stone with stone quoins and dressings, covered by a slate roof with a tiled ridge.

The south elevation features a south porch with a gabled slate roof and stone coping, its pointed arch entrance having two orders of responds dating to the 15th century. A south window on the nave contains three ogee-trefoil lights with quatrefoil reticulations over, set under a flat head, all in stone and dating to the 19th century. The two-bay south chapel has diagonal buttresses, moulded set-offs, and an embattled parapet. It contains two four-light windows with trefoil-headed mullions and panel tracery over a flat head; these are 19th-century rebuilds with a hood mould and string-course featuring gargoyles. The chancel has a two-light trefoil-headed window with a quatrefoil over, the hood mould featuring head-stops; this incorporates re-used 14th-century material. Late 12th-century corbels are visible under the 19th-century eaves. The central tower is of two stages with strings, featuring two-light Victorian bell openings, a plain parapet, and four grotesques.

Inside, the nave has a scissor-braced roof with ashlaring, also dating to the 19th century. The crossing is from the 14th century and retains 14th-century mouldings and capitals that are corbelled off below in the 19th century. The chancel has a pointed wooden barrel vault, ceiled with an embattled wall plate. A wide four-centred arch is visible, leading to the south chapel, and dates to the 15th century. The east window contains three lights with reticulated tracery. The south chapel features a Victorian flat-panelled ceiling and an openwork wooden arch at the bay division. A stone font with an octagonal bowl dates to the 19th century, incorporating a re-used 12th-century scallop capital with cable necking and a short round stem with a moulded base. The pulpit is constructed from early 17th-century material, notably two tiers of round-arch panels with fluted pilasters, made of oak. A stone, mosaic and tile altar retable dates to the late 19th century. Late 19th-century wooden choir stalls are also present. Good and complex stained glass depicting the Adoration of Shepherds, the Nativity, and the Adoration of Kings is found in the south chapel, created by G E Cook in the late 19th century. The east window depicts the Ascension, made in memory of the Luttrell family, after 1880.