Church Of St Mary And St John

The Church of St Mary and St John is an Anglican parish church dating back to the 13th century, with subsequent work in the 14th, 15th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar and freestone dressings, and has slate roofs with coped verges and finials. The church is predominantly in the Perpendicular style.

The west tower is plainly built in the 13th century with a pyramidal roof, a pennant wind vane, a blank parapet with coping, and three large corner gargoyles. It has simple one- and two-light bell-chamber windows, some with cusped lights, and a renewed lancet west window. Set above the west window are two stone faces, possibly reused from the 13th century, depicting a man and a woman. A 19th-century doorway at the ringing chamber stage is surrounded by chamfered freestone and has a divided plank door, accessible by an external iron staircase.

The three-bay nave features good three-light pointed-head traceried windows and two-stage buttresses. A gabled north porch has moulded inner and outer doorways; the interior is benched on a flagstone floor and has a stone-vaulted roof with ribs, a 17th-century studded outer door with strap fringes, and paired 19th-century ribbed inner doors. A small gabled south porch also has moulded inner and outer doorways with four-centred arch heads, a flagstone floor, a stone-vaulted roof with ornamental corbels, and a 19th-century ribbed inner door. The chancel is blank on the north and south sides, with a 19th-century neo-Perpendicular west window. A small, low vestry has a cusped single-light window to the east.

The interior is plastered and has flagstone floors. A panelled chancel arch leads to a double-chamfered, squat tower arch where the chamfers fade into the imposts. The nave has a good moulded tie-leaf roof, partly from the 15th century and partly from the 19th century. The chancel roof is arch-braced with collar beams, also 19th-century, and may incorporate earlier work. Features include a Norman font with cable banding, a 17th-century tester, and an 18th-century chest. Other fittings are of high-quality late 19th-century work in a medieval style, including pews, an altar, altar rails, a stone reredos, and choir stalls. An early 18th-century memorial is above the north door, and a good 18th-century memorial commemorates a charitable individual. Five early/mid 19th-century wall monuments are by Chapman of Frome, Reeves of Bath, and Rogers of Bath. The only stained glass is in a south nave window, depicting the story of St Christopher.