Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with a tower dating to the 13th century, the nave largely rebuilt around 1490, and restoration work carried out in 1853, 1885, 1895, and 1962. The church is constructed from random rubble local stone, with flat bedded stone in the tower, and has slate roofs with coped verges.

The west tower is crenellated and comprises three stages, with diagonal buttresses to the first stage. It features a pair of lancet bell-openings, a string course, a narrow lancet window, and a 2-light window in the west side. The nave has four bays, and is adjoined by a south transept, a south porch, a four-bay north aisle, a chapel, and a chancel. The porch has a pointed arch outer doorway dating to the 19th century and a moulded pointed arch inner doorway, partly renewed with a 19th-century door. The church features a 3-light window to the transept, a similar window at the junction with the nave, a 2-light south chancel window, a 3-light east-end window, a 4-light window to the east end of the chapel with set-back buttresses, a 3-light window to the west end, and one 3-light window to the left of the rood stair projection with a lancet window, and four to the right between stepped buttresses.

The interior has rendered walls. There are pointed 19th-century tower and chancel arches; the former has corbelled inner arch. The roofs are open timbered and of 19th-century design. A Perpendicular arcade features vine-leaf capitals, with the eastern capital recarved. A hollow chamfered 4-centred arch leads to the rood stair, with stairs in situ. A small arched niche appears to be an aumbry, and a trefoil-headed opening in the north side of the chancel wall may have been a hagioscope. A pointed arch opening between the chancel and nave now provides access to the pulpit. A dated 1625 pulpit is present, along with a 19th-century font. The organ is housed in the south transept, accompanied by a plaque reading "Restored George Ormond, Taunton.” The pipes are painted battleship grey. The organ is said to be by T. C. Lewis, 1872, with a case dated 1897, and may be the same organ with a "pretty organ case in the Arts and Crafts style" commented upon by Pevsner. Brasses are located in the chancel, commemorating Joan Dyke, who died in 1605, and her husband Thomas, who died in 1639. Memorials also exist for Elizabeth Joyce, who died in 1794, and John Mellon, who died in 1703.