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St Michael

St Michael

Seavington St Michael

Somerset

Late C12, possibly refenestrated, porched C1291

Architectural Features

C15 alterations, gallery of c1800, vestry 1858, reseating of 1899.

2-light east window, C14 tracery under pointed-arched plain-stopped label

north wall has 2-light flat-arched C15 windows, trefoil-cusped lights with incised spandrils, all set in hollow rectangular recess with deep square plain-stopped label

on either side a 2-light C15 early Perpendicular traceried window, no recesses, plain-stepped labels

west window also 3-light C15, with pointed-arched square-stopped label, below being a small buttress and above a semi-circular arched plain window to serve the gallery.

another piscina, cinquefoil cusped, in south wall, and near chancel arch four later C14 corbel brackets for rood loft or lenten veil, two having carved heads.

The Font - 12th or 13th Century.

likewise in nave except for a circular tub font on rectangular base, probably C12/C13, with late C18 cover.

The Font - 12th or 13th Century.

© Ray Jennings

Charles II hatchment over north door: in chancel the effigy of a man, c1280-90, possibly Adam le Denys, Lord of the Manor of Seavington St Denys, d.1284.

Two fragments of early medieval glass in tracery of south-west nave window, and C18 glass panel in west window.

First mention of church in 1226, first recorded rector 1297.