All Saints

Local lias stone, mostly cut and squared, Ham stone dressings, some clay tile stitching in tower

Chancel has double plinth, string course with gargoyles, battlemented parapets, offset corner and bay buttresses of full height with pinnacles over

elaborate 5-light east window, and sub-arcuated and transomed side windows of 4 lights, all very late C15

high in north wall a small 2-light C13 plate tracery window formed in one stone.

North aisle may be partly C13, with simple plinth, string course with gargoyles, battlemented parapets, angled corner and bay buttresses

South Chapel has 4-light sub-arcuated C15 windows in east and south walls, otherwise details similar to chancel except for angled corner buttresses.

Tower in 3 stages, C15 but top rebuilt 1833

plinth, string courses, with offset below stage 3, gargoyles, battlemented parapet with pinnacles: west doorway has recut 4-centre arched head under square label, with quatrefoils in spandrils, flanked by canopied niches

Inside, Chancel has fine late C15 open roof frame, almost flat, with moulded rib and panel roof having carved bosses, other fittings C19 including good sedilia and reredos of 1887.

fine timber pulpit of late C17/ early C18 on C19 base.

North aisle has one roof bay of C15 fragments, and octagonal late C15 font.

ST4226 : Langport, All Saints Church: The font

© Michael Garlick

South aisle mostly 1877 work, but south chapel has ceiling matching the chancel, of C15, and double statue niche on corner of chancel arch, and a piscina or stoup on the central column of the arcade.

Memorials mostly C19, but a good set of C18 Keinton stone slabs with black colouring and fine incised lettering includes memorials to Mary Michell, died 1756, in north aisle, and to Thomas Bush, died 1753, in Nave.

East window has various pieces of C15 stained glass.

First recorded rector 1256.