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St Mary

St Mary

Donyatt

Somerset

C15 rebuild of earlier church.

Architectural Features

Chancel has double plinth, string course with gargoyles, moulded battlemented parapets, angled corner buttresses, east window 4-light, early pattern sub-arcuated with cusped transome set in hollowed recess without label

North aisle apparently a later C15 addition, with plinths, string stepped up for eastern bay, and plain parapet with simple coping, angled corner butresses and one buttress between bays 3/4

east window possibly C16, wide 4-light under 4-centred arch, traceried, set in hollowed recess

the most westerly on the south side has different C15 tracery but the Nest window matches the 3 on the side.

double plinth, string courses, the top with gargoyles

to all sides stage 3 are 2-light C15 traceried and transomed windows with pierced stone baffles, Inside, the fittings mostly C19, but restoration discreet, Chancel has moulded rib and boarded ceiling with leaf bosses incorporating some early fragments

Nave and aisle roofs almost totally C19, but the arcades C15

fine early C17 panelled octagonal timber pulpit with pairs quasi-Ionic pilasters at each angle set on a stone base probably of C19

low font, octagonal with quatrefoil panels each face, on simple base, C15 style but may be C19

some of the nave pews incorporate C15/C16 bench ends from the nearby manor chapel, now demolished

screen to tower arch incorporates some C15 work, but parts clumsily reversed

Memorial tablet to Revd.

First recorded rector 1255.