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St Martin

St Martin

North Perrott

Somerset

C12, modified in C16, with some early C20 restoration.

Architectural Features

East window a 4-light C16, with 4-centre arched head set in hollowed arched recess having square-stop label.

To south are two 2-light windows, both with C15 style tracery, the west plain, with uncusped tracery and simple label, the east fully cusped with a square-stop label, both with C19 external ferramenta.

Organ chamber vestry may be a C15 chapel: string course with corner gargoyle, plain parapet

Transepts have plinths, angled corner buttresses, string courses and shallow plain parapets, and rather wide 4-light sub-arcuated windows with uncusped tracery, in pointed segmental-arched hollowed recesses under square-stop labels, possibly C17.

West porch probably C16, with angled corner buttresses, shallow pitched roof with coped gable and cross finial

Tower of 2 stages above roofline, with string courses, the upper with corner gargoyles, and shallow plain parapet.

To each face of second stage are 2-light C15 windows in flat-arched chamfered recesses without labels, having decorative pierced stone baffles.

Interior has strong C15 character: Chancel has C19 timber rib and plaster panel vault ceiling.

Panelled reredos with C17 Spanish side pieces and centre panel by the younger Westmacott.

North transept has C19 king-post ceiling in C15 style, and C19 panelled arch to organ chamber.

Nave ceiling of 5 bays, C20 moulded tie beams with plain plastered panels, set on carved head corbels, some of which may be medieval, Fittings all late C19/early C20, simply detailed.

Lectern and pulpit good quality reproductions of a medieval style.

Simple hexagonal font of uncertain date.

Several early C19 monuments to Hoskins family (later spelt Hoskyns) of North Perrott Manor (qv).

First recorded rector 1297.