Church of St Martin is a Grade II* listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- dusk-rood-snow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Martin, Elworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 082 349
- Coordinates
- 51.10661, -3.31137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Martin is a parish church that is now redundant. It features a 13th-century tower, with the porch and nave roof dating from the late 15th century. The chancel was rebuilt in 1695 and again in 1846 when the nave was restored and an organ chamber was added. The church was declared redundant in 1979. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble with Ham stone dressings and has slate roofs with coped verges.
The building includes a west tower, a three-bay nave, a south organ chamber, a chancel, and a rood loft stair projection. The lower, two-stage tower is crenellated and unbuttressed, with two square bell openings and a lancet. The entrance is at first floor level on the south side, accessed by a flight of steps, and features a wooden chamfered four-centred arch doorcase with a renewed studded plank door. The single-storey gabled porch is buttressed and has a moulded arched entrance that is split at the apex and subsiding, along with a chamfered arched inner doorway and a 19th-century door.
In the nave, there is a lancet window to the right, two two-light windows on the south front, another two-light window in the organ chamber projection, and a three-light east window. The chancel has diagonal buttresses and a rood loft stair projection at the junction with the nave's north face, with a two-light window to the left of the porch.
Inside, the church is rendered. It features a 19th-century pointed chancel arch similar to that of the organ chamber, and an unmoulded round tower arch. The chancel has a 19th-century barrel vault, while the nave boasts a late 15th-century ribbed plaster barrel vault. Notable interior elements include a mid-17th-century alabaster font, a Jacobean pulpit, late 17th-century turned baluster altar rails and table, some 17th-century stained glass in the windows, and a 19th-century screen with a frieze that reads: "O Lord Prepare Our Arts to Praye Anno 1632," along with some 17th-century tracery. The choir stalls have 16th-century bench ends, and there is a slate tomb slab in the nave commemorating Mary Green, who died on January 19, 1718/19.
Local climate
Church of St Martin receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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