---
title: "St Mary the Virgin, Westwood"
description: "Located in Westwood, Wiltshire. Built 15th century; restored 1840. Diocese of Salisbury. Grade I. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Wiltshire","Westwood","Grade I","Perpendicular"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-mary-virgin-westwood"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T03:05:16.919Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:32:57.381Z"
location: "Westwood, Wiltshire"
country: "England"
county: "Wiltshire"
town: "Westwood"
address: "Farleigh Lane, Westwood, Wiltshire, BA15 2AF"
postcode: "BA15 2AF"
built: "15th century; restored 1840"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Mary"]
diocese: "Salisbury"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Limestone ashlar and dressed limestone; stone slate roof with coped verges"
website: "http://htboa.org/"
openingHours: "Normally open in conjunction with National Trust manor."
parish: "Westwood"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1180693"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# St Mary the Virgin, Westwood

St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I parish church on Farleigh Lane, Lower Westwood, Wiltshire, in the Diocese of Salisbury, standing beside Westwood Manor.

## Overview

Historic England records an Anglican parish church of the fifteenth century, restored in 1840, in limestone ashlar and dressed limestone under a stone slate roof. The plan is a west tower, nave with north chapel and chancel. The three-stage Perpendicular west tower has diagonal buttresses, a Tudor-arched west doorway, battlemented traceried parapet, crocketed pinnacles and an octagonal south-east stair turret with a crocketed domed roof. Pevsner called the elaborately decorated tower splendid. The fifteenth-century north chapel has Perpendicular windows and a battlemented parapet.

The 1840 restoration rebuilt the south side of the chancel while retaining a trefoil-headed door. A reused stone over a north chancel door may be late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century; a chapelry of Bradford-on-Avon at Westwood is recorded in 1299. The nave has a late eighteenth-century coved plaster ceiling. Fifteenth-century stained glass survives in the chancel, including an east window showing Christ crucified on a lily. The church is normally opened in conjunction with the National Trust manor.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1180693](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1180693)
- [Holy Trinity Benefice of Bradford on Avon](http://htboa.org/)