Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church located in Tarrant Gunville, with parts dating from the late 14th century, including the nave, aisles, and south porch. The west tower was built in the 15th century and partially rebuilt in the 16th century. The remainder of the church underwent restoration between 1843 and 1845, carried out by T H Wyatt. The church is constructed from flint with random squared rubble blocks, banded flint, and ashlar with ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs and stone copings.

The layout includes a nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a north vestry. The windows feature medieval and 19th-century work, primarily in the Perpendicular style, with two lights and square heads, adorned with labels and carved stops. The east chancel window has three lights under a pointed head, while the north and south chancel walls contain lancet windows. Weathered buttresses, some original, are found in various locations, and there is interlaced round-headed wall arcading reset in the north aisle. The three-stage tower has a battered plinth and an embattled parapet, separated by weathered strings that bear gargoyles. An octagonal vice turret from the 19th century is located on the north side, and diagonal buttresses support the first two stages, with pilaster strips above. The belfry features two-light pointed windows.

The gabled south porch has a pointed arch with two chamfered orders and a pointed cinque-foiled niche above, along with an inscribed sundial to the right of the door. The nave includes a clerestorey with two-light windows.

Internally, the church features 19th-century arcades of five bays with pointed arches of two chamfered orders on circular piers with moulded capitals. The chancel arch is also 19th-century, with two chamfered orders on rounded responds with moulded capitals. The tower arch has two chamfered orders on polygonal responds with moulded capitals. The nave has a 19th-century traceried king post and tie-beam roof, while the chancel features a 19th-century scissor-truss. Other notable interior elements include a 19th-century traceried pulpit, an octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels, some reset early glass, and monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries. The chancel has 19th-century stencilled decoration, and most other fittings are from the 19th and 20th centuries.