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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Holton

Somerset

C14 and later.

Architectural Features

Welsh slates with coped East gable to chancel and plain gables to North aisle, plain clay tiles with simple gable to nave.

Chancel plain, with almost round headed C16 style 3-light traceried East window, and 2-light window in flat topped recess in South wall, East of which is an ogee arched doorway.

Tower simple, probably C14, in 2 stages

plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets to most of lower stage, string courses, the upper with corner gargoyles, crenellated parapet

the wide chancel arch could be C14.

The nave has a C15 style arcade into the North aisle, added in 1888, using panelled arches.

Fittings include a plain tub type of font, possibly C12,

an octagonal plan pulpit front with panel tracery, probably C15.