Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew

The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin in Stanton Drew, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. In the north aisle is the Norman bowl of the font and further east the small turret steps behind a glass door that in earlier times led up into a rood loft.

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Church
Denomination: Anglican
Description: church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK
Also known as: “Saint Mary the Virgin” and “St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Stanton Drew”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Round House and Old School Room.

The Round House

Residential building

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Round House at Stanton Drew in the English county of Somerset was built in the 18th century. It has been designated as a Grade II listed building. The two-storey thatched building is hexagonal in plan. The Round House is situated 1,700 feet north of Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew.

Old School Room

Community center

Photo: Neil Owen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Old School Room in Chew Magna, Somerset, England was built around 1510. It is a Grade II* listed building. It was built as a church house for the neighbouring Church of St Andrew. Old School Room is situated 1¼ miles west of Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew.

Sutton Court

Manor estate

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Sutton Court is an English house remodelled by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1850s from a manor house built in the 15th and 16th centuries around a 14th-century fortified pele tower and surrounding buildings. Sutton Court is situated 1½ miles south of Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norton Hawkfield and Stanton Drew.

Norton Hawkfield

Hamlet

Norton Malreward is a small Somerset village and civil parish 4 miles south of Bristol, England at the northern edge of the Chew Valley. In 1895 Norton Malreward was combined with the neighbouring hamlet of Norton Hawkfield into a single parish, which has a population of 246.

Stanton Drew

Hamlet

Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Stanton Drew is a small village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset, England, lying north of the Mendip Hills, 8 miles south of Bristol, just off the A368 between Chelwood and Bishop Sutton in the area of the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority.