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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Chaffcombe

Somerset

Tower partly C15, remainder rebuilt under James Mountford Allen 1857-1860.

Architectural Features

North aisle has angled corner and central buttresses to two-thirds height, and in north wall two 3-light C13 style fiat-headed cinquefoil-cusped windows in moulded recess without labels

Nave has single buttress to south-east corner, and three 2-light windows in C15 style, one to west and two to east of south porch.

Porch has angled corner buttresses and an apparently reused C15 shafts-with-hollow moulded pointed-arched outer doorway, and C15 inner doorway having moulded pointed arch in rectangular recess with leaf- carved spandrels.

double plinth, string courses, the top having corner gargoyles, and crenellated parapet

on south-east corner an octagonal-plan stair turret slightly higher than main tower, with pinnacles to all angles: west door is a simple moulded pointed archway without label, with 3-light window above , and high in stage 1 on south-east corner are two small fragments of C15 carved figures, one in a canopied recess: stage 2 has a simple rectangular leaded light in west face only

to all faces of stage 3 are 2-light C15 traceried windows in hollowed recesses.

C15 tower arch: C18 communion rail with turned balusters.

Tub font with tulip bowl, possibly from the earliest church, of which the first recorded rector was of 1175.