St Mary the Virgin, Silchester
Parish church
The parish church, twelfth century, standing beside the Roman town wall.
About
St Mary the Virgin stands on its own at the end of Church Lane, beside the east wall of the Roman town of Calleva and a good way from the village it serves. The earliest walls date from the beginning of the twelfth century and the position is older still, because it was built on the site of Roman temples, on ground thought to have been held sacred long before that. It is Grade I listed, and it is in use week by week rather than kept as a monument.
What’s here
- Sunday worship
- Grade I listed twelfth-century parish church
- Beside the walls of Calleva Atrebatum
Venues and community places are listed as EveryVillage partners. We wrote this page ourselves, from information St Mary the Virgin, Silchester and others have published. Address, history and services from the parish church's own website and its A Church Near You entry; the listing and grid reference from Historic England (1339600). Church office number and churchwardens' address from the church's own contact page (the vicar's mobile is not published here). Photographs published by the church itself. Last checked September 2026. If you help run it, send us a correction or ask us to take the page down.