Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is an Anglican chapel of ease, built between 1902 and 1903 by W.H. Stanley of Trowbridge. It was constructed from dressed limestone with a tiled roof featuring coped verges and cross finials. The church comprises a chancel, nave, a north porch, a south vestry and organ chamber, and an east bellcote. The architectural style is Arts and Crafts Gothic.

The gabled porch has diagonal raking buttresses, a hollow-chamfered pointed doorway with a hoodmould and foliage-carved spandrels, and three-light leaded windows to the east. The north side of the nave has two three-light windows with depressed arched heads and cusped lights, and cast-iron rainwater goods run along the swept eaves. The chancel features two three-light Perpendicular-style windows, a string course to a plain blocking course, and raking buttresses to all sides. The east end has a two-light Perpendicular-style window either side of a buttress, incorporating a crocketed image niche, which rises to an octagonal turret with pierced stone louvres and griffin gargoyles, culminating in a short recessed spire. The south side of the church has a three-light Perpendicular-style window. The double-gabled vestry has two two-light ogee-cusped square-headed windows and an ashlar stack, with an ogee-headed planked door to the west. The south side of the nave displays three three-light windows with depressed arched heads and cusped lights, while the west end has a three-light Perpendicular-style window. A wooden gabled bellcote is situated on brackets to the gable.

The interior retains original fittings. The walls are lined with red brick and white pointing, and feature a moulded string course over the windows. The nave has a four-bay roof with arched collar trusses; the half-bays have plainer collar trusses. Both truss types have ogee V struts, exposed rafters and purlins. The church has polychrome tiled floors, particularly impressive in the chancel. A chamfered pointed chancel arch rests on free-standing compound piers. The chancel has a four-bay scissor truss roof. Segmental-headed archways lead off to the vestry and organ chambers; the former has been filled with a panelled wooden screen, both featuring exposed rafter roofs. A cusped piscina is located on the south wall of the chancel, alongside a wide pointed arched panel on the east wall, with a string course including rosettes above the altar. The pulpit is octagonal, with traceried panels. The octagonal stone font sits upon a green marble pedestal. The church was largely funded by Mary Barton of Corsley House (who died in 1878).