 The Manor and Advowson of Netlington belonged, until the Dissolution, to Glastonbury Abbey.The church is now in the ByBrook Benefice in the rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Malmesbury, and the present patron is the Bishop of Bristol.The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Society has published a Church Record for St Mary's, providing an extensive and detailed formal record of the contents of the church, and many aspects of the building.