Sutton Mallet Church

STAWELL CP CHURCH ROAD (West side) ST33NE SUTTON MALLET

2/63 Sutton Mallet Church 29.3.63 GV II

Anglican church. 1829 by Richard Carver, the County architect and surveyor, on a medieval site incorporating some reused C15 features. Coursed rubble, slate roofs, coped verges, slender 2-stage buttresses with offsets. Nave with small south porch, small polygonal chancel, slender west tower. Gothic. Tower with moulded string below parapet, parapet rises to form a 'pediment' to each face, deep buttresses to west, arch over, recessed 3-light Perpendicular west window, 2-light Perpendicular bell-chamber windows. Three-bay nave, tall 2-light stone-mullioned windows, each light with a 4-centred head, labels, diamond-paned leaded lights. Gabled ashlar south porch, slender buttresses, 4-centred head outer door opening, 4-centered head recess on each side. Chancel with cinquepartite roof, 3-light reused Perpendicular window with label, diamond-paned leaded lights. Interior with coeval box pews, 2 decker pulpit, and font. C17 altar rails re-used from the earlier church. Two C17 bells. (Church Guide, 1975; Pevsner, N. Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST3729536936