Church Of St Peter And St Paul

ST51NW BRYMPTON D'EVERCY CP LUFTON 3/27 Church of St Peter and St Paul 19.4.61 GV II Anglican parish church. C14 or earlier origins, but rebuilt 1865 by Benjamin Ferrey, incorporating some old fragments. Ham stone roughly cut and squared ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof between coped gables. Two cell plan of single bay chancel and 3-bay nave, with south porch and west bull turret. Chancel has chamfered plinth, cill course and eaves course with ball flower ornament, side buttresses; 3-light east window with Geometric style tracery, label with headstops, and single plain lancet in north and south walls; nave has plinth, moulded eaves course, buttresses at junction with chancel and to sides at west end: 2-light windows with various types of tracery, all with headstop labels; west window 3-light Geometric style above which is the belfry, oblong with pitched roof, on carved corbel base, with one arched opening to north and south and two to east and west. South porch has low wide pointed arch on scalloped corbels, with headstop label inner arch plain. Inside, chancel has arched scissor braced roof, rere-arches to windows including shafts and moulding to east window; timber panelled reredos and typical C19 fittings; chancel arch of 2 orders with single C12 type shafts. Nave has king post truss roof, and rather wide splays to windows. Of the fittings, a stoup by the south door partly old, and the font, possibly C12, is a circular tub with chamfered plinth, cable mould and ring of incised ornament at top including crosses; otherwise fittings C19 or C20 (news). Several reclaimed memorials, including floor slabs of 1663 and 1771. Small print of single cell pre-1865 church in nave. First recorded rector before 1420. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST5150316860