Architectural Features
east window a 3-liqht, C14 style traceried, in hollowed recess with plain stopped label
Vestry has flat roof behind moulded plain parapet, with C14 style 2-light windows in south and east walls.
the chancel and south sanctuary (transept) arches in C15 style and could incorporate work of that date.
the communion rail, priest desk, pulpit, pews all of c1868, the font in timber with openwork timber cover, first used in 1881.
The Font.
Many monuments to the Nelson (Lord bronte) family and Hood (Lord Bridport) family
One of two principal monuments in the church, this is to 1st Viscount Bridport who died in 1814, and is by Sir John Soane. The main part of the memorial inscription reads: 'Sacred to the memory of the Right Honourable Alexander Hood, Lord Viscount Bridport: Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath, Admiral of the Red Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, Vice Admiral of Great Britain, General of the Marine Forces, and the senior Admiral of the Royal Navy: who departed this life on the 3rd Day of May 1814, in the 87th year of his age.' Alexander Hood (1726-1814), 1st Viscount Bridport, was a naval officer and politician. Lord Bridport began his career in 1741 as a captain's servant. He gained a succession of appointments and was eventually promoted to second-in-command in 1797 and Vice-Admiral in 1797. Hood was a Member of Parliament from 1784 to 1796, first representing Bridgwater and then Buckingham. In 1794 he was created Baron Bridport in the Irish peerage. At the end of his naval career, from 1797 to 1800, Bridport played a central role in the Napoleonic Wars commanding the Channel Fleet against the French. Upon his retirement in 1800 he was created 1st Viscount Bridport in the peerage of Great Britain. There are at least three portraits, including Reynolds's in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14047.html
particularly fine is that on chancel south wall commemorating Alexander Hood, died 1814, designed and signed by J Soane, Archt, with black marble base topped by a white marble monument with typical Soanian pediment on Ionic columns framing the memorial plaque
opposite on north wall a monument of similar character but of lesser design, unsigned, to the Rev<.
Mounted on the north nave wall is a fragment of the alter cloth used in the Coronation Service of Queen Elizabeth II. (The grading of this church solely on the strength of the Soane Monument).