Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church located in Turville Village. The nave dates back to the 12th century, while the chancel was added in the 14th century. The west tower was completely rebuilt in the early 16th century, and the south porch is likely from the 18th century. The north aisle was constructed in 1733, and the north vestry was added in 1900. Most of the church has been restored, except for the tower. The building is made of flint with stone dressings, a rendered chancel, and a brick north aisle, all topped with tiled roofs.

The west tower has two stages, featuring a moulded plinth and string course, a battlemented brick parapet with a dripmould, and diagonal buttresses. The early 16th-century openings include four-centred heads with Tudor hoodmoulds, a two-light window for the bell chamber and west side, and a single light for the southwest door, which has a moulded four-centred arch and hoodmould. The north side of the nave has later brick buttresses, a blocked door with a pointed chamfered arch, and a lunette. The south side features two restored two-light traceried windows, a single cusped light to the left, and a south door with a pointed arch of two orders, the inner being roll-moulded and the outer chamfered. The brick porch has a rendered gable. The north aisle has two gables facing north and rusticated brick quoins, with a 20th-century door between the aisle and vestry.

The chancel has restored Decorated windows similar to those on the south side of the nave, including two two-light windows on the south and a three-light window on the east. It also features an ogee south door. Inside, the tower contains a semi-circular niche in the north wall and a 14th-century chamfered arch leading to the nave. The nave boasts a fine crown post roof with four bays and an 18th-century two-bay north arcade with semi-circular arches. The 14th-century chancel arch is two-centred and chamfered with broad flat soffits. The chancel has been completely restored and includes a cusped piscina, an arch leading to the vestry from 1900, and a carved foliage frieze along the east wall.

Notable fittings include a medieval tub font, a re-sited 15th-century carved wooden panel with cusped tracery and rosettes in the tower, four 16th to 17th-century pews, and some heraldic stained glass in the north aisle. Monuments within the north aisle include a marble monument to members of the Perry family from around 1740, featuring inscription tablets, flanking scrolls, a broken cornice, a pair of carved urns, and a heraldic cartouche, as well as a wall tablet commemorating William Butlin and family from 1817.