The synthesis and structural characterisation of a new phase with nominal composition Bi4Mn1/3W2/3O8Cl is presented. Conventional and analytical transmission electron microscopy are used to determine the composition, unit‐cell symmetry and space group of the compound, whereas a structural model is deducted by exit‐wave reconstruction in the transmission electron microscope. This technique allows the microscope information limit of 1.1 Å to be reached and the (light) oxygen atoms in the presence of heavier atoms (Bi, W, Mn) to be imaged. The average structure is refined from X‐ray powder diffraction data using the Rietveld method yielding an orthorhombic unit cell with lattice parameters a = 5.467(4) Å, b = 5.466(7) Å and c = 14.159(3) Å and space group Cm2m, which could be described as a Sillén–Aurivillius intergrowth. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006)