Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church with some 17th century work, primarily from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The chancel has been rebuilt, a vestry added, and the church underwent restoration between 1878 and 1879, with the tower largely rebuilt in 1912 during another restoration. The exterior is rendered over random rubble, featuring plain tiles, decorative ridge tiles, and scalloped tiles on the spire.

The church consists of a two-bay nave, chancel, vestry, a south chapel dedicated to the St. Albyn family, a south porch, and a west tower. The tower is three stages high with a broached spire, and has a lancet window on each stage divided by string courses, along with louvred bell openings and a pair of lancets at the west end of the first stage. Diagonal buttresses rise one stage high, with a larger irregular buttress at the southwest junction with the nave.

On the north face, there are two 2-light windows, while the gabled south porch features an arched entrance with a hoodmould, a piscina that has been used as a holy water stoop, and an arched doorway with 19th century double doors. The south chapel has a gabled projection with a 2-light window and hoodmould, and there is a group of headstones and memorial tablets set into the external east wall of the chapel and the south wall of the chancel, enclosed by railings on two sides. The south wall of the chancel has a lancet window, and there are 2-light east windows along with a vestry projection on the north side.

Inside, the church is rendered, featuring a 14th century chancel arch and remnants of the original barrel vaulted roof in the nave, with other roofs dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. There are simple early 17th century bench ends, one of which is dated 1602. The south chapel contains a notable collection of late 17th and 18th century memorials to the St. Albyn family, including a memorial to John St. Albyn of Alfoxton Park, who died in 1768, designed in grey and black marble by John Ford the younger of Bath.