Architectural Features
Coursed and squared lias and Hamstone, tile and lead-sheeting roofs, coped verges, chancel with a cruciform finial.
Very elaborate lofty 3-stage tower, embattled pierced parapet, corner pinnacles with secondary pinnacles and intermediate pinnacles, quatrefoil band below the parapet, set-back buttresses which terminate at the second stage with shafts with pinnacles which ascend to the third stage, gargoyles
Ringing-chamber stage with a large transomed window with quatrefoil grilles, Somerset tracery, flanking crocketed niches with figures, one missing, some slighted
bottom stage again with niches for figures, 2 headless to west flanking doorway
pair of modern figures to south, a war memorial, also 4 achievements in relief
South aisle embattled, large gargoyles, 2-storayed porch, floor to upper room now removed, buttresses, small 2-light front-facing window, stair-turret, embattled parapet with a central figure of the crucifixion and a finial, simple double-chamfered outer door opening, pair fine C18 wooden dog gates with wrought-iron cresting, inside benched on flag-stone floors, C19 roof, moulded inner door opening with carved heads as label stops, early ribbed and studded door
South chapel a continuation of the south aisle, embattled, gargoyles, a 3 and a 4-light window.
Very large 5-light transomed window with tracery to the north and south sides of the chancel, further 5-light east window, pierced parapet, gargoyles.
Single-storeyed east vestry, pierced parapet, gargoyles, a 2- and a 4-light window.
tie-beam roof to north chapel, though may incorporate medieval work.
C14 aisle arcades of 4 bays, octagonal piers, moulded caps.
Arch between aisle and south chapel supported on 2 angel busts.
Very fine C15 rood screen of 5 bays, restored 1955, tall 4-light sections, the middle mullion reaching up into the apex, each 4-light arch has 2 sub-arches, 2 leaf friezes to the cornice.
Re-cut octagonal C14 font, large late C19 tester.
ST4321 : Kingsbury Episcopi, St. Martin's Church: The font (detail)
Much mid C19 work including pews, box pews, pulpit, choir stalls, altar rails and altar table.
Two C18 and 2 C19 wall monuments.
Fragments of C15 stained glass to top lights of chapel and chancel windows.
Mid C19 glass to east window.
North aisle window dated 1915 with a figure of St Martin, other windows with plain leaded lights.