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St Thomas of Canterbury

St Thomas Of Canterbury

Lovington

Somerset

C13 origins

Architectural Features

Welsh slate roof to chancel, plain clay tile roof to nave having bands of fishscale tiles, between coped gables with cross finials, catslide roof to north aisle.

Chancel apparently C15, but with east wall rebuilt in C19: plinth, angled corner buttresses, eaves course

3-light C15 traceried east window, with 2-light window on sides to match, one to north and two to south

Nave mostly C19, with a 3-light and a 2-light window in south wall, both with C15 style tracery, divided by C19 porch having plain outer arch and a moulded 4-centre-arched inner doorway, with stoup to right of door and trefoil cusped statue niche over, small 2-light side windows.

2-light C15 style traceried windows, with a single light window in west wall

Tower of C13 origins, modified and possibly heightened in C19: 3 stages double plinth, angled corner buttresses 2 stages high

string courses, the top with gargoyles, plain parapet

north-east corner stair turret one stage high: small west door in moulded 4-centre archway under arched label with foliated square stops, above a simple 2-light window in hollowed arched recess, rather deep, with ornamental cill - otherwise plain to lowest stage: stage 2 plain on all but south face, which has a small thin lancet window of C13

third stage may be C19, with C15 style 2-light pointed arched windows with pierced stone baffles to all faces.

Inside, chancel has C15 character

plain plastered barrel vault ceiling, a simple arched piscina and a C15 or C16 surround to an aumbrey in north wall, with door dated 1842

simple double chamfer chancel arch, possibly C14.

Nave mostly C19: arched braced roof trusses, some moulded arched recesses in south wall, one possibly a piscina, and also some arches by the pulpit - the arcade C19, as is the north aisle.

Furniture includes C17 altar table and a sanctuary chair

font and pulpit Cl9

several C16 bench ends with poppy-head finials to pews.

First recorded rector 1318.