Combe Hay Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. A Victorian Church.
Combe Hay Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- turning-footing-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- ST 735 598
- Coordinates
- 51.337, -2.38173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Combe Hay Parish Church is an Anglican parish church of unknown dedication. The church features a 15th-century tower, while the main body was altered in the late 18th century and restored in 1874 with the addition of a south aisle and porch, possibly by George Smart, the Lord of the manor. The building consists of a west tower, nave, north porch, south aisle, and apsidal chancel. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed squared rubble, topped with slate roofs that have coped raised verges.
The west tower, dating from the 15th century, has three stages with diagonal buttresses, an embattled parapet with pinnacles, and features two-light bell chamber windows with cusped heads and pierced quatrefoil screens, along with a two-light west window and a projecting polygonal stair turret on the northeast side. The nave has Y-tracery windows, while the south aisle and chancel each have three two-light windows. The north porch is gabled and also features an embattled parapet.
Inside, there is an arcade of three bays, and all fittings date from the late 19th century. Notable monuments include a rococo-style inscribed marble plaque for Robert Smith, who died in 1755, created by Ford of Bath, with arms, urns, and a flat obelisk above it. Another monument is for John Bennett, who died in 1719, featuring an inscribed marble plaque flanked by Corinthian columns and a segmental pediment with arms.
Local climate
Combe Hay Parish Church receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Monument to Simbs-Cooper Family in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
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- Monument to William Barnard, in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to Saben Family in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to Windsor Family in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to William White,In Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to Jane Saben, in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to William Sabin, in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
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