The Strode Theatre has been around since the early 1960's and still functions today as an integral part of Strode College and Crispin School. The first ever concert at the theatre was performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1963 and ever since, the venue has been a prominent location for many professional dramatical companies and orchestras. The stage is well equipped with the latest technology, and the auditorium has recently been refurbished with more spacious seating. The Strode Theatre is a perfect venue for the Mid-Somerset Orchestra.

This church is the largest as well as one of the most interesting in Somerset, in a county famed for its rich inheritance of churches belonging to the Perpendicular period. St. Cuthbert's is designed on the most impressive scale; its lovely tower has few equals even in Somerset; and the whole building bears testimony to the skill and artistic genius of the mediaeval craftsmen who built and adorned it. The present building is thought to be the third to stand on this site, which adjoins a small mound. This probably served as a burial ground even before the coming of Christianity. The first church is believed to have been a wooden edifice built in King Alfred's time (about the end of the ninth century). It was quite natural that such a church should have been dedicated to St Cuthbert, who was an illustrious Saxon Saint. Nothing remains of this first church, nor is there anything to remind us that a second church replaced it in the Norman period. Thomas Serel, a Victorian antiquarian writing in 1875, dates the building of this second church to between 1135 and 1165. In the thirteenth century a third church was erected on the site and was the nucleus around which the present building has grown. Some parts of it still remain, notably the piers and arches of the nave arcade and a few windows, but the great restoration which took place during the fifteenth century was to all intents and purposes a rebuilding, and the great church then assumed the dimensions and general appearance that it has today, although until 1561 the church had a central tower which either collapsed or was removed.