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St Mary

St Mary

Luccombe

Somerset

Circa 1300 chancel, C1450 nave and tower, cl530 aisle added, 1752-6 gallery added, removed 1840 when church restored and vestry added, 1895 some of the earlier restoration removed, church restored and reseated by Edmund Buckle.

Architectural Features

North porch, west tower and north east vestry, 3-stage crenellated tower, unbuttressed, gargoyles and string courses, 2-light trefoil headed louvred bell-openings with hood mould, trefoil headed lancet above 3-light west window, west door moulded pointed arch head, crenellated stair turret in south east corner, 2-light ogee headed mullioned window west end of buttressed south aisle, four 3-light windows renewed C19, blocked Tudor arch head doorway, east end 2 x 4-light cinquefoil headed window, lancet to south wall of buttressed chancel, 3-light east window, lancet on north front, 2-light window to vestry with priest's door, 2 and 3-light windows left of single storey gabled porch, diagonal buttresses, moulded pointed arch opening, lancet on returns, open wagon roof partly renewed, remains of holy water stoup right and pair of lugged holy water stoups flanking inner door installed 1975, empty niche above, 3-light window to right.

C20 roof to tower, chancel nave and aisle ceiled wagon roofs with bosses and wallplates, Perpendicular arcade, capitals carved with vineleaves and shields.

Remains of early C16 English and Flemish glass, removed from church during 1840 restoration and reset in east window of aisle 1935

late C19 pastel tinted glass in aisle, east window dated 1885.

Early C16 table tomb in south aisle, Ham stone, flat topped, carved with leaves and flowers and shields. (It has been sugested that it was originally an Easter sepulchre).

Perpendicular octagonal font

c1840 crocketed pyramid font cover raised by pulley attached to jamb of tower arch.

Jacobean pulpit.

C17 chair.

Fine brass to William Harrison, died 1615 in front of chancel.

Early C17 tablet with segmental pediment and Ionic columns, apron with skull, to Richard Worth.

Slate tablet to Henry Byam died 1665, inscribed in Latin with details of his eventful life, bolection moulded surround, coat of arms above, skull below.