The Community of St Mary the Virgin (CSMV) is an Anglican religious order based at Wantage in Oxfordshire, England.
It was founded in 1848 by the vicar of Wantage, the Reverend William John Butler and is one of the oldest surviving religious communities in the Church of England.
Out of the Oxford Movement came the first religious orders to be founded since the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII of England and among these the Community of St Mary the Virgin was one of the first.
George Edmund Street designed the Convent House for the Community of St Mary the Virgin in 1850 in Wantage.
Ann and Agnes had founded the Ladies’ Ecclesiastical Embroidery Society which in 1863 merged with the Wantage Church Needlework Association.
[4] William John Butler (1818–1894), a high church Anglican priest, was Vicar of Wantage from 1846, and several of his curates became notable clerics (e.g. Henry Parry Liddon).