Church Of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- twisted-hammer-sable
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating from the 14th century, with early 15th-century refenestration, restoration and redecoration in 1698, and further restoration in 1860, including the addition of a vestry and partial rebuilding of the chancel. It is constructed of blue lias random rubble with sandstone dressings and has slate roofs with coped verges. The church features a two-bay nave, a chancel, a northeast vestry, a south porch, and a west tower.
The tower is three stages high and crenellated, with diagonal buttresses, two-light bell openings, a small lancet window below the string course, a three-light west window, and a square crenellated stair turret at the northwest corner. The south front has two-light windows flanking the porch, which features a two-light octagonal chamfered aullioned window set below the eaves to the right, a gabled structure, a chamfered arched opening, a holy water stoop, and a lancet on the east wall. The chancel includes a two-light mullioned window with a hood mould and a two-light arched window flanking the priest's door, which has a scratch dial to the right. The east window is three-light, and there is a two-light window under the east wall of the vestry. The north front of the nave has two two-light windows.
Inside, the church is unplastered, featuring a 19th-century arch-braced chancel roof and a ribbed and plastered barrel vault in the nave. There is a pointed chancel arch from the 19th century and a four-centred arch doorway to the vestry, which is located on the site of an earlier chancel aisle. The tower arch is moulded in two orders with an ogee-headed door to the stair turret. There are blocked four-centred arch doors to the rood loft, a blocked rood loft opening above, and another blocked door in the centre of the north nave wall. The rood screen may date back to the 14th century, with 19th-century restorations. It originally had a large loft and features fine early 16th-century bench ends, a pulpit dated 1633, and Jacobean newel turned altar rails. A canopy tomb on the north wall of the chancel commemorates Hugh Luttrell, who died in 1522, and his son Andrew, who died in 1538.
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