The church, which is dedicated to St Mary, dates from the mid-12th century and has examples of Norman and Jacobean architecture.

[3] In 1896 Charles Keyser oversaw and funded the church's renovation, which was guided by Edward Doran Webb.

Alongside the routine repairments to paving and roofing, the renovation uncovered evidence of an early water drainage system in the sill of a window.

[4] Further repair work to the roof and tower was undertaken in the 1950s, with surveying overseen by Frederick Ernest Briant Ravenscroft of Reading.

[14] In 1977, the church rang a quarter-peal (1260 changes) of Plain Bob Doubles for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

[15] On 9 July 1979, a peal of Grandsire Triples was run to mark the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to AWRE.

[16] A peal of Oxford Bob Triples was rung in on 15 November 1980 to commemorate the new vicar, Richard Millar.

[17] The present organ at St Mary's church is located in the south chancel and was built in 1880 by Martin & Coate of Oxford.

[22] It was rumoured that she was a witch,[23] and would turn herself into a hare and sit outside the Falcon pub in Tadley to learn gossip.

Other rumours suggest that she cursed villagers' gardens when they refused her request for flowers, and that she bestowed illness upon her son when he left home for Windsor so that he would return.

Her coffin was supposedly weighed down with stones and bricks, and the gravediggers jumped on the grave to ensure that she would never rise.