Church of St Mary the Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Nettlecombe, Somerset, England dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

The church which lies within the grounds of Nettlecombe Court, which was built as a large country manor house, becoming a girls' boarding school in the early 1960s and since 1967 has been the Leonard Wills Field Centre run by the Field Studies Council. The house is surrounded by Nettlecombe Park, a 90.4 hectares Site of Special Scientific Interest. The house and park are set in a secluded valley on the northern fringes of the Brendon Hills, within the Exmoor National Park.

Although there was a previous church in the village the current red sandstone building was dedicated in 1440.

Source: Wikipedia