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Victorian Gothic Ruin style. Late C19 rubble mound from the collapsed north wall. Mr Robert Millington Knowles of Colston Bassett Hall was given permission by the Diocese to remove the interior fittings and the roof after he had provided the new church of St John the Divine down in the village in 1892. By 1898 the church lay roofless and ruinous, with debris including the bell hammers and the remains of the Royal Arms lying on the ground. In 1907 it was described as covered in ivy and the interior full of nettles and debris. A collection of architectural styles, built upon each other over an 800 year period, had begun to fall apart in chunks. C20 and C21 Conservation. The stabilisation of the ruin provides a Romantic setting for those departed in recent years. The living visitor may enjoy it, too. (Photo Sept 2007).