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Culbone Church

Culbone Church

Oare

Somerset

Probably pre-Norman in origin, C13 porch, late C15-early C16 nave refenestrated and reroofed, c1810 spirelet added, 1888 chancel reroofed and east wall rebuilt, nave roof repaired 1928.

Architectural Features

West end unlit, single storey gabled porch, semi-circular headed opening, barrel vault roof with remains of wallplate, cambered headed door with medieval metalwork

2-light trefoil-headed mullioned window, wall breaks forward slightly to right lancet in south wall of chancel, C19 3-light east widow, north wall Saxon 2-light window with leopard face carved in low relief in spandrel, north wall of nave 2-light wooden cinquefoil headed mullioned window under hoodmould.

Norman baluster font.

Circa 1400 3-bay screen partly renewed.

C17 box pew, and plain bench ends thought to be pre-Reformation.

One of the 2 bells is said to date from the C14.