The tiny settlement of Rimpton occupies a last block of relatively low-lying Somerset countryside nestling in a right angle of rather forbidding hills occupied by the frontier with Dorset. The church with attendant former manor house, at an altitude of about 40m OD, lies at the eastern extremity of the village, 300m from the Dorset border. The church of St Mary, which is built of local stone, has a cruciform plan with a W tower, nave, S porch, N and S transepts and chancel. Although it mostly dates from the the 13thc or later, the church may perhaps preserve some earlier features.
