Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a small Anglican church that dates back to the early 12th century, with a chancel added in the 13th century. It was restored in 1913. The church is constructed from rubble stone with quoins and features a stone slate roof with coped verges on the nave and a bellcote at the east end of the nave. The nave includes a south porch and has raking buttresses on the north side, along with single lancet windows, including a trefoil window to the east. There is a Norman square-headed low doorway with a cambered top lintel, which is carved with a scene depicting the Lion of Righteousness triumphing over the agents of Evil. On the south side, there is a single round-arched light with an external rebate and drilled holes for a shutter to the left of the porch, and to the right, a 15th-century three-light stone mullion window with arched lights and a square hoodmould. The large west window is a Decorated three-light window with flowing tracery. The bellcote features a large base on the ridge and a single triangular-headed cusped arch with a bell.

The chancel has two small lancets on the north side, three stepped lancets with an arched hoodmould and carved stops to the east, and a central priest's door with a shouldered arch to the south, flanked by a single lancet on the left and a square-headed opening on the right. Inside, the nave and chancel have 14th-century wagon roofs, and all windows have deep internal splays. There is a 13th-century stone screen on the chancel side of the pointed chancel arch, featuring a moulded edge and the elbow of one return stall on the south side. Wall paintings from the 12th to 15th centuries survive in both the nave and chancel. The north wall of the chancel is decorated with cinquefoils and tendrils within painted stone courses. The nave features figures of Saint Christopher and Saint George and the Dragon on the north wall, as well as a large painting depicting "Keep Holy the Sabbath Day" on the south wall. The church also contains a Norman font with chevron moulding.

The church was abandoned after the 15th century due to an outbreak of the Black Death and is now isolated from the village, which relocated to the hamlet north of the main road (A417), formerly known as Ashbrook and now called Ampney St. Mary.