Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church located in Marshwood, with its west tower built in 1841 and the rest of the structure rebuilt in 1884 by G. Vialls. The church features rubble walls with lias stone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The layout includes a west tower to the north, a nave, a south aisle, a chancel, and a vestry at the west end to the south. Entrance is through the west doorway of the tower. The west tower has three stages and a plain stone parapet, with tall lancet bell-openings that feature a foiled cross-in-circle motif above. Diagonal buttresses display alternating dressed stones and rubble-work. The nave windows consist of paired lancets with straight-chamfered edges, while the chancel has lancet windows with hood-moulds above. There are two buttresses on the north wall.

Inside, the nave has a three-bay south arcade supported by round piers, with capitals adorned with stiff-leaf foliage and pecking birds. The chancel, which has two bays, is divided from the nave by a dado and features Purbeck shafts on either side. The east window consists of three lancets framed by Purbeck shafts. The roof is of scissor-brace construction with ashlaring and is unceiled. The south aisle includes transverse internal buttresses. Notable interior features include an octagonal stone font with irregular quatrefoils, a wooden pulpit with simple turned framing, a brass reading stand in the pulpit, and very plain stone sedilia with trefoil heads.