Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is an Anglican parish church built in 1857 on the site of an earlier Medieval church. Designed by S.S. Teulon, it is constructed of flint with ashlar quoins, and has a tiled roof with coped verges and finials, topped by a spire covered in Welsh slates. The church comprises a north-west tower, a south porch, a 6-bay nave, a north aisle, a chancel, and transepts with a north-west vestry.

The north gabled porch is timber-framed on a flint and stone plinth, with a pointed moulded arch within the doorway, flanked by single shafts. To the right are two nave windows featuring geometric tracery and two trefoiled lancets on the west side. The chancel has a large three-light east window with a geometric tracery design and a hood mould with unfinished terminals, while the north and south windows are trefoiled lancets. A registry room to the north has a shouldered-arched chamfered doorway and a two-light square-headed window. The north transept, or chapel, has a gabled roof with two trefoiled lancets and a three-light rose window to the north, alongside trefoiled lancets to the east and west. The north aisle has two-light windows with geometric tracery and a doorway with a pointed moulded arch and shafts, with a string course below the windows. A three-sided stair turret to the tower has a shouldered-arched doorway and lancets. The four-stage north-west tower is divided by string courses, with geometric style windows to the first, second, and third stages. The fourth stage has four gables and supports a broach spire, featuring spouts with foliage carving.

Inside, the 6-bay nave has arch-braced collar trusses to the roof, supported by fine foliated corbels. A pointed arcade runs along cylindrical columns, and the windows feature polychrome brick voussoirs. The 3-bay north aisle also has an arch-braced collar roof. The north and south transepts have collar rafter roofs. The chancel arch is in the 13th-century style, with foliated capitals on three columns either side and angel terminals to the hood mould. The 3-bay chancel has arch braced collar roof and the vestry is linked by wide, pointed arches, leading to an organ loft. Fittings include Victorian pews and choir stalls. A screen behind the altar is made of pink tiles with a mosaic vine decoration. There are several examples of good late 19th-century stained glass, including signed windows by Morris & Co Ltd in the north transept chapel, commemorating Robert Hutchings who died in 1910; a fine east window in a Pre-Raphaelite style to the Countess of Radnor who died in 1879; and a south transept window by Clayton and Bell. The altar rails have square wrought iron panels from a screen that was removed from Salisbury Cathedral in 1960. A wall tablet on the south side of the chancel remembers Thomas Stringer of Ivychurch, who died in 1702, carved from slate. A further tablet on the north side displays initials and a shield with the date 1612.