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St Decuman

St Decuman

Watchet

Somerset

C13 Chancel, otherwise mainly C15.

Architectural Features

Slate roofs with ridge tiles.

South porch with C15 doorway, floor in chessboard pattern of slates set on edge.

Interior has finely carved wagon-roofs with leaftrail carving running along wall plates relieved by array of shield bearing angels.

Angels with emblems of the passion to south aisle roof.

Carved oak rood screen with 4-light divisions, main arches divided into 2-light sub-arches.

Jacobean oak pulpit with tester, Wyndham family pew with finely carved foliage and date 1688.

Wyndham Chapel at east end of north aisle contains good C16

C17 family memorials.

C15 octagonal font, plain bowl with narrow moulding above and below supported on carved angels, stem ornamented with panels.

Late medieval encaustic tiles to chancel floor relaid in 1896, others set in a frame on north aisle wall.