The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 1. 0½., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is a large and handsome structure, partly in the Norman, and partly in the early English, style, having a tower and spire one hundred and sixty-two feet high. The small river Ewern has its source here, from which, and the church, the parish derives its name.

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