Parish Church of St Mary

The parish church of St Mary is an Anglican church built in a simple Romanesque style, likely dating to the medieval period with later alterations. The exterior is constructed of stone rubble with grey limestone quoins and yellow terracotta dressings, primarily framing small arched windows, some of which have been replaced with Bath stone. The roof is slate, with a small gabled bellcote at the west end, a small roundel above the entrance, and a curved apse at the east end incorporating a tiny round-ended chapel to the southeast. The west front features three small terracotta arched lights above a lean-to porch, with a similar window on each side, flanked by clasping angle buttresses. The porch has a large arched doorway recessed into the main wall, with terracotta outer detail and a stone inner order featuring a scallop moulding and a leaf zig-zag design. Double ledged doors are fitted with ornate hinges.

The nave has five bays, with pairs of arched lights to each bay, separated by two-step buttresses. The chancel has a curved apse with a polygonal roof, with three small arched lights at the east end; the central light is closely flanked by flat buttresses, and the other two are in grey stone. A further arched light is located to the north. A buttress on the north side features a carved face to the northeast and an eroded face to the west. The southeast chapel has an arched doorway flanked by buttresses, a terracotta surround leading to a ledged door with ornate hinges, a curved apse with a single arched light, and a three-sided roof.

The interior is unusually broad, featuring a five-bay timber roof supported by deep arch-braced scissor trusses on low corbels, with triple purlins. The walls are plastered, with pointed arches above each pair of windows. A west-end gallery is supported by two turned columns with vertical panels, and forms an enclosed lobby beneath. The octagonal font, likely dating from 1857, is made of painted stone with a chamfered bowl and shaft. A timber Gothic pulpit, constructed around 1945-50, has five traceried sides. A pointed plastered chancel arch has plain capitals and a thin timber screen installed in 1919. The chancel includes Cilgerran stone shafts to the apse windows and a two-bay roof with arched-braced trusses. Stalls from 1919, communion rails, and apse panelling from around 1945-50 complement the space. A small fragment of medieval stonework, consisting of two tiny cusped lights, is incorporated into the south wall of the nave, accompanied by a plaque noting its origin from the ancient chapel of St Martin (Llanfartin).

The church is adorned with stained glass, including a large east window from 1986 depicting “I am with you always” and a west window from 1989 titled “Peace be Still,” both by John Petts. Several chancel windows depict "Christ and Serviceman," "Good Shepherd," and "Suffer the Children," created in 1921 by Burlison & Grylls. Nave windows, predominantly from the 1920s, feature works by R. Newbery and others. Roundels by Crombie of John Baker of Weston-super-Mare from 1992 decorate the west gable.