West Ogwell Church

West Ogwell Church is a redundant parish church dating primarily to the late 13th century, notable for being largely unaltered and free of Victorian restoration. A typescript report suggests the tower may have been added later, possibly in the early 16th century. A vestry was built in the early 19th century. The church is constructed of rendered stone with a slate roof. It comprises a nave, chancel, transepts, a west tower, a south porch, and a vestry situated in the angle of the nave and north transept.

The chancel and north transept have Decorated windows; the north side of the chancel features a two-light window, the east side of the chancel a three-light window with intersecting tracery, and the north and east sides of the north transept also have three-light windows. The south transept contains Perpendicular windows with four-centred arches and plain chamfers. The south doorway of the nave, with its old door, is similarly styled, while the doorway of the porch has a round arch with chamfered imposts. The porch is gabled and topped with granite coping and a cross.

The tower is a plain, tapering structure of two stages, demarcated by moulded string courses, and finished with a battlemented parapet. On the west side, a round-arched doorway is positioned above a curious "Decorated" window of three lights set under a four-centred arch. The belfry has openings on all four sides, each with a pair of almost round-headed lights. All windows throughout the church have diamond-shaped leaded lights, many incorporating old glass.

Inside, the south wall of the chancel features a triple sedilia with sharply-pointed, trefoiled arches. Chancel windows have hood-moulds on the interior, with carved heads (likely in their original positions) serving as terminals. Similar, re-set heads (without hood-moulds) are found on the east window of the south transept. The tower arch is almost round-headed with chamfered imposts. An internal stair turret in the lower part of the south-west corner includes a doorway with a two-centred arch and old door. The interior has plain wagon roofs, plastered over. Fittings include an octagonal, panelled and carved wood pulpit dating from the early or mid-17th century, a white limestone font likely from the 18th century, plain box pews from the early 19th century found in the nave and North Transept, and an early 19th-century altar rail with a bowed centre, thin, oblong-section balusters, and a rounded handrail. A plain stone chimney-piece is present in the south transept, probably associated with a former Squire's pew.