Church Of All Saints

ST32SE ISLE BREWERS CP ISLE BREWERS VILLAGE

4/1 Church of All Saints

17.4.59

• II

Anglican parish church. 1861 by C.E. Giles. Coursed and squared lias with Ham stone dressings, banded plain tile roofs with crested ridges to coped verges with cruciform finials. Nave, chancel south vestry, north tower larch. Plain 'High Victorian" Early English style. Tower porch square on plan at base rising to octagonal bell-chamber supporting tiled spire with wrought-iron finial; single-light bell opening to each face, a lancet with a quatrefoil to head, on ground floor broad door opening to north, Shifted surround of 2 orders polychromatic voussoirs to arch over, of white lias and Ham stone. Three bay nave, 2 bay chancel, lancet windows, some paired, some simple tracery to heads in the form of cusping and quatrefoils, triple-light east window with plate tracery, libel with large carved floral stops. Inside plastered on flagstone floors, encaustic tiles to chancel. Nave under simple scissor-beam roof, chance! under unceiled wagon roof. Contemporary fittings including pews, choir stalls, altar rails, stone reredos with painted decoration, pulpit and lectern. Norman tub font with cable banding, 2 Jacobean coffin stools and a C18 chest reused from an earlier church that stood in the village. East window with sole stained glass of circa 1861. Wall monument of the First World War. Very faded achievement set in porch. (Pevsnar, N., Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST3694421048