Parish Church Of St Mary.

The Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building located in Batcombe Village. It dates from the 15th century, featuring a nave and a west tower, with the chancel rebuilt in 1864 and a north porch added in the same year. The church has rubble-stone and flint walls with freestone dressings and clay-tile roofs. The west tower is three stages high, supported by diagonal buttresses, and topped with an embattled parapet, pinnacles, and gargoyles at the corners. The main entrance to the church is through the west doorway, while a newel-stair is located in the north-east angle of the tower.

Inside the nave, the north wall contains a 15th-century window with three cinquefoiled ogee lights, vertical tracery, moulded and shafted reveals, and a label with head-stops. The north doorway also dates from the 15th century, featuring chamfered jambs and a two-centred head. The south wall has two windows similar to the north wall's window, with the eastern window lacking a label. The south doorway matches the north doorway in design. The chancel features mid-19th century two-light windows in a Perpendicular style, both with shafted reveals, and the south window includes an internal stone bench.

The interior includes a moulded tower-arch that springs from moulded responds, with reveals and soffit displaying a single row of sunk panels with pointed heads. The nave roof features a collar-beam with curved braces forming four-centred arches, adorned with carved foliage bosses at the intersections.

Notable fittings include a font with a roughly circular stone bowl decorated with four strips of cable ornament at the corners, lugs at the top, and incised concentric circles between them. The bowl and capital are from the 12th century, while the square stem with chamfered angles is later. There is also a screen under the chancel-arch, featuring a solid stone dado and four bays with a central entrance, divided by shafted mullions into two cinquefoiled lights each. The doorway has a four-centred arch with two cinquefoiled lights above it, dating from the late 15th century. An embattled stone cornice is present but has been much re-cut. The west tower contains good wall tablets and monuments.