St Mary

Embattled parapets, with C19 terminal figures.

North transept, N window similar to the east window, now blocked by a monument.

West doorway has moulded jambs, two centred arch in a square head, carved foliage spandrels.

Nave has a C19 hammer-beam roof of 3 bays, carried on carved stone corbels.

Font: partly built into N. respond of W. crossing-arch, five sides of octagonal bowl with quatrefoiled panels enclosing paterae, panelled trumpet-stem with trefoil-headed panels, moulded base, C15.

Stained glass: in E. window, S. transept, W. window, C15 mainly (RCHM).

Monuments: two altar-tombs with canopies and alabaster effigies, both C15, N. to William Browning

S. ascribed to Sir Giles Strangways , but of C15, (RCHM).

Extensive wall monuments to Strangways family, notably N. transept. marble monument, 1726, to Thomas Strangways, Jun.

1666 marble tablet with scrolls, cornice, broken and scrolled pediment, to Sir John Strangways.

Nave has 4 C18 monuments with rococo framing (RCHM).

Pulpit and Priest's Desk with similar ornament, and Ilchester arms.

Church, monument to Caroline Leonora, wife of Henry Stephen, 3rd earl of Ilchester 1819 , white marble with kneeling figure of a woman, by Chantrey, 1821.

The monuments are of especial interest. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.161(1))