Saint Mary

C15.

Chancel plinthed, with half-height corner and full height bay buttresses, no parapets, C17 cuboid sundial as finials to gable coping

3-light East window with reticulated tracery, arched label without stops, and 3-light North and South windows with C15 tracery in hollowed recesses with angled label moulds squared stopped

Nave plinthed, with full height offset buttresses between bays, battlemented parapets, corner gargoyles

windows have C15 tracery in deep recesses

North Chapel probably C16, with 2- and 3-light debased Tudor windows, very plain.

date on roof timbers 1685.

Tower of C15, in 3 stages divided by string courses

clasping corner buttresses, battlemented parapet with small corner and intermediate pinnacles, corner gargoyles

Arched moulded West door under square label with mutilated finials, foliated spandrils, above a 3-light C15 traceried recessed window of which the head passes through the string course

above on West side the remains of a cruciform carving under a square label, on the North and South sides of stage 2 small 2-light windows with wood baffles

5 bells dated 1582, 1621, 1623, 1664 and 1666, all by Purdue family of nearby Closworth.

Choir stalls incorporate remnants of medieval screen, pews with doors and wood pulpit of early C17

Font is C15 octagonal, lead-lined with carved band of Somerset Quarries, lilies, over a squashed quatrefoil band, with bracket taper into traceried stew.

Memorials include one to Christopher Raymond, died l123/4 in North chapel, and incised flag in nave aisle floor to Edward Minchington died 1719.

The church, like that at Yeovilton, (qv), was virtually demolished by the collapse of tower during a freak storm in Septenber 1309