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All Saints

All Saints

West Camel

Somerset

Late C14 with earlier fragments.

Architectural Features

mostly lead roofs, but plain clay tiles to chancel and stone slates to North transept

Eastern 3-light window in 4-centre arch with C15 tracery and in North wall very small 2-light window with C15 tracery very rural in character.

a wide 2-centre arched 3-light window with C15 tracery set in a recess on the North side, a cusped lancet and Quatrefoil and a large 3-light window with wide pointed arch and C15 tracery on the South

the West window a simple 3-light window of C15 with head bosses in the pointed label, there being a simple segmental arched doorway under.

corbel table to low parapet with gargoyles

bellchamber windows on all 4 sides with C13 tracery and wood baffles.

sedelia and 2 piscinae, one each side, of C13

Nave roof a 5-bay medieval king-post truss with tracery infill panels, having heavily moulded beams and principal rafters and bold Tudor rose central bosses, elaborate wall plate and angel brackets at each mid-bay, all with modern gold leaf and colouring.

Fittings include a curved pulpit front in C13 style, shown in different position in a pre-restoration sketch of the church

a circular lead-lined font, probably C12, with intersecting arch decoration, on modern base

and in the North transept two C14 bench ends

2 chests, one possibly C15

the other C17

and set into middle of floor fragment of a C9 Saxon cross-shaft with cable-roll interlaced decoration on 2 faces, discovered above nave East wall foundations in 1866.

In tower 5 bells, the earliest of C15.

Monuments include: pedimented plaque, Revd.

a brass tablet to Revd.

few certain dates, including addition of spirelet in 1631, rebuilding of chancel arch 1847, and some restoration for Revd.