About St Mary's Church, Portbury

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St Mary's Church in Portbury, Somerset, England, is an Anglican parish church close to the M5 motorway. It is a Grade I listed building.

It dates from the 12th century, with alteration and extension in the 13th and restoration between 1870 and 1875. It has a Norman doorway and grand fifteenth century porch. There is a Berkeley Chantry chapel with early Berkeley family burials dating from around 1190.

There are a number of elderly yew trees in the surrounding graveyard with one reputed to be 900 years old. The Church was extensively renovated in the 19th Century when a cast iron heating system was installed.

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