Parish Church of All Saints

The Parish Church of All Saints, Westbury, likely dates to around 1437, with similarities in mouldings to the North aisle chantry chapel of that date. The church was renewed and restored in 1847 and has been recently stabilized. It is constructed of ashlar, incorporating earlier masonry in parts. The church is a large cruciform building featuring a rectangular central tower and short, low transepts. It has an embattled, clerestoried nave of four bays, along with South and West porches, and a small vestry built in 1847 located between the South porch and transept.

The two-stage crenellated tower includes an octagonal stair turret to the North-East. The chancel roof is steeply pitched and tiled with stone. The West front features a small, panelled and vaulted porch with seats, dividing buttresses, and an embattled verge. The large West window is of elaborate Perpendicular style tracery, designed in 1847 by T.M. Wyatt. Fragments of corbels, including a large face (possibly from a Rood, locally said to represent King Alfred), are found above the South transept window. The two-story South porch has a handsome vault, partly cusped, with Tudor emblems in cells, and a sundial dated 1821 above the pointed doorway. The tracery throughout the church, with the exception of the clerestory, the seven-light, thrice-transomed East window, and the North chapel windows, is in a transitional Decorated-Perpendicular style.

Inside, the tall pointed arcade has clustered piers, and the upper walls are buttressed by arches over the aisles. A tall, columned monument commemorates Sir James Ley and his wife. There is also a bust of William Phipps (Governor of Bombay, died 1747) by Sir Robert Taylor. The North chancel chapel contains good commemorative plaques from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The church is set within an enclosed churchyard and, apart from the tower, is largely hidden from surrounding streets. The churchyard's perceived spaciousness is enhanced by the gardens of Westbury House (to the South-West) and the Vicarage (to the North-East), both featuring fine trees. Numerous good 18th-century altar tombs are located within the churchyard.