The village of Frampton lying in the Frome valley, was an ancient British settlement and the Romans were here as well as they left behind very fine tessellated pavements.

But this village seems to be all one sided with the attractive cottages just on the one side of the main street, and nothing on the other side, this is because the owner of Frampton Court had them all removed in 1840 to improve his park, but  the cookie crumbles both ways as the Court has since been demolished as well. The gatehouse to the Frampton Estate is now a restaurant and antique shop The Gate House Parlour, and the Wessex Barn which is a guest house was The Red Lion a coaching inn. Even the old school has been converted to a private residence.

The church is dedicated to St Mary and inside is an effigy of Rear Admiral Sir John Browne who was at the battle of the Spanish Armada and he is seen lying on his tomb in tilting Armour.  A bust of Richard Brinsley Sheridan killed in action at Cape Colony in 1901, with a sword and a South African medal attached below the bust, crossed with the sword of his brother William Temple Sheridan who was also killed in action, this time at Loos in 1918. And on a plaque it states that from this village of only 300 twenty one men made the ultimate sacrifice in the 1914-1918 war.

On 20th April 1976 the year of the heat wave a plumber was repairing the lead on the roof of the church and created a spark which started a fire that destroyed 43 houses on the west of the church.