The Church of All Saints has 13th-century foundations. It was remodelled with the addition of a west tower about 1450. There was a restoration in 1859 and further restoration of the tower in 1948. The church includes on either side of the door stone busts to John Locke and Hannah More dating from the early 19th century. The chancel has an 1832 Gothicreredos by Charles Barry. The rood screen is from the 16th century. It has a tall four-stage tower with set-back buttresses which develop into crocketed pinnacles at the top stage. The top displays moulded string courses and a trefoil-pierced triangular parapet with gargoyles and corner pinnacles. It is Grade I listed. According to Freeman it is "one of the "highest achievements of architectural genius". It dates from the period 1420–1450. The belfry stair is in the south-east turret. The height of the tower is to the top of the pinnacles. The 17th-century rectory is Grade II listed. The church's bells ring automatically. Until 2012, this took place every 15 minutes even through the night, but after a noise abatement order was served, it was reduced to hourly during the night.
Primary school
The village primary school was opened on 1 May 1857 and is Grade II listed.
Butcombe Brewery
A major institution in the local economy is the Butcombe Brewery, a microbrewery set up in the nearby village of Butcombe in 1978 by Simon Whitmore, the managing director of Courage Western, made redundant in a restructuring, and his wife Maureen. In 2003 the business was sold to Guy Newell and Paul Horsley, and moved to an industrial estate at Wrington, to be housed in a purpose-built brewery completed in March 2005. In the same year the brewery set up a joint venture with Thatcher's, the Long Ashton Cider Company, to produce a keg cider. In 2008 output was 24,000 barrels a year and the number of direct outlets was about 450.
Notable residents
In birth order:
Samuel Crooke, noted preacher and supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War, was rector of Wrington for almost 50 years.
Francis Roberts, Puritan, librarian, scholar, and rector of Wrington from 1650 until his death
John Locke, philosopher, was born in Wrington.
John Rogers, controversialist and cleric, rector of Wrington
Samuel Wathen, physician to Charlotte, wife of George III, died in Wrington."
Henry Walton Smith, bookseller and newsagent, founder of the business that became W. H. Smith, was brought up in Wrington.
Hannah More, who worked to improve the conditions of miners and agricultural workers on the Mendip Hills, bought a house in the hamlet of Paradise, near Cowslip Green, where she lived with her sister, Martha, until 1828. She spent the last five years of her life in Clifton. She is buried at All Saints' Church. The More family tomb is a Grade II listed building.
Samuel Budgett, wholesale grocer, Wesleyan Methodist, philanthropist, and subject of a bestselling biography, was born in Wrington.
William Talbot Aveline, geologist and archaeologist, was brought up in Wrington.
George Howell, a prominent British trade unionist and reform campaigner in the 19th century, was born in Wrington.
Henry Herbert Wills who resided at Barley Wood, was a member of the WD & HO Wills tobacco family and a board member of the Imperial Tobacco Company, which took it over.
Dame Mary Monica Cunliffe Wills resided at Wrington. She was knighted for her philanthropy.
Dr Howard Alexander Bell, Pioneer of reservoir fly fishing nymph techniques and artificial flies lived in Wrington from 1935 to 1974.
Frank Cousins, national trade union leader and Labour politician, lived in Ropers Lane during the 1970s.
John Pilkington Hudson, horticultural scientist and bomb disposal expert, retired to the Spinney, Ladywell, Wrington, where he and his wife created a notable garden.
Football club
Wrington Redhill AFC plays at the recreation ground in Wrington. The club operates a 1st team, a reserve team and an A team. The 1st team plays in the Erra Somerset County League in the premier division. The reserve team plays in Weston super Mare and District League Division 1 and A team in the W&D division 4. The club badge is a gold rampant dragon, the same as the emblem on the unofficial Flag of Somerset. The club colours are green and black.
Cricket club
Wrington currently has two senior teams. The 1st XI is currently in the North Somerset Cricket League Saturday Division 1. The 2nd XI is in Saturday Division 3. The club's limited overs team also finished as runners-up in the league's Butcombe Brewery KO Cup. The club also has a youth system, running teams in the North Somerset Youth Cricket Leagues at Under 17, 15, 13 and 11 levels. The club's facilities and pitch have been improved in the last few years, and alongside an improved pitch It now has two nets, used for training sessions for all ages and levels.
