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The parish is part of the benefice of Backwell with Chelvey and Brockley within the deanery of Portishead.
The mainly 15th-century parish Church of St Andrew in Banwell, Somerset, England, is a Grade I listed building.
The Church of St Andrew in Chew Magna, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century with a large 15th-century pinnacled sandstone tower, a Norman font and a rood screen that is the full width of the church.
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In the church are several memorials to the Stracheys of Sutton Court together with a wooden effigy of a Knight cross-legged and leaning on one elbow, in 15th century armour, thought to be of Sir John de Hauteville or a descendant, and possibly transferred from a church at Norton Hautville before it was demolished.
It is the burial place of Arthur Hallam, subject of the poem In Memoriam A.H.H. by his friend Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
In the 12th century Robert FitzGerold gave the church to Bec Abbey in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, a Benedictine monastic foundation in Eure.
Today virtually nothing remains of the abbey, apart from the Church of St Andrew, which also served the village, and the dovecote.
It begins life as a series of springs near the Church of St Andrew in Banwell where they once filled a large pool below the church.