The village is the location of
St. Bridget's
church, the Fox & Hounds and the Farmer's Arms
pubs, Pitcot Pool and St. Brides
Primary School. The 12th-century Church of St Bridget is now in the combined Parish of Ewenny and St Brides Major, within the
Diocese of Llandaff. For much of its history it was a Parish in its own right, co-inciding with the civil parish and more recently community boundaries. Until the
Reformation the Church was, along with
Ewenny Priory and other local churches, a possession of Gloucester Abbey, both having been given to the abbey in 1141. It contains a number of medieval tombs and memorials, but the building itself was heavily restored by Egbert Moxham in 1851. There were two
non-conformist Chapels within St Brides Major village. Bryn Sion
Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Penylan Road, was built in 1859, replacing a building of 1824. It closed in 1987 and is now a house. Horeb Baptist Church, Ewenny Road, was built in 1863 and closed in 2003. The building was sympathetically restored during 2019 and is now a hairdressers and beauty clinic. ==Electoral ward==