Church Of St Phillip And St James

TARRINGTON CP TARRINGTON SO 64 SW

1/227 Church of Saint Phillip and Saint James 6.3.67

GV II*

Parish church. Mainly C12 nave and chancel, C16 tower, north arcade and aisle added 1836, the whole restored late C19 to early C20. Sandstone rubble and sandstone dressings with tiled roofs. Three-bay nave, three- bay chancel, west tower, north aisle and south porch. Nave has three late Cl9 to early C20 Decorated style windows, the north aisle two, with a re-set C12 blocked round-headed doorway to the east side containing two scalloped capitals and a plain typanum. Chancel has two single-light C12 windows with diapered heads in the north wall; the rest of the windows restored C15: two with two cinquefoiled lights and Y-tracery opposite each other in the eastern bay; 3-light east window; 4-light cinquefoiled window on south side and to the east of it a blocked C16 Tudor-arch doorway. Tower is C16 of three externally undivided stages, diagonal buttresses to north-west and south-west, four twin (re-used?) bell-openings each with cinquefoil heads separated by an octagonal-shaft, a 3-light late C19 to early C20 west window under a 4-centred head and a C18 doorway in the south wall. South porch is early C20 with ogee-shaped tie-beam to front. South doorway is C12, round head, west capital similar to those on blocked north doorway and the east capital depicting (in restored form?) a man and a horse. Interior: barrel roofs; C12 chancel arch of two orders, the outer with restored chevrons, capitals similar to those of north and south doorways plus heads, patterned abaci; C13 or C14 piscina in chancel has 2-centred head and chamfers, above it in the east window of the south side are frag- ments of medieval stained glass including a crowned Virgin, probably C15; heads of C12 north windows in chancel have strange drilled holes, beneath them a C14 effigy of a woman set in a gabled crocketted ogee-headed recess decorated with ball-flowers and dog-teeth. North aisle separated from nave by two C19 arches with four centres supported on an octagonal pier. C16 tower-arch is 2-centred with crenellated imposts; in the south-west corner of the tower a tapered stone coffin-lid with incised plain cross from each arm of which hangs a ring. C14 font has octagonal bowl with cusped panels supported on eight fillet-moulded shafts. Pulpit is C19, 4-sided, supported on octagonal shaft, with top rail cresting, ogee and quatrefoil decoration to the panels. In 1931 an excavation revealed that the church had until C15 alterations, a chancel-apse. (RCHM Vol II, p 182-3).

Listing NGR: SO6186140688