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St Mary
Witham Friary
Somerset
Circa 1200 in Transitional style altered 1828, rebuilt and extended 1875 by William White in Muscular Gothic.
Architectural Features
tall Western ashlar bellcote surmounting steeply pitched plain tile roof.
Plastered interior entered through Norman style doorway has stone vaulted roof of 4-bays springing from octagonal corbels, comprising chamfered transverse ribs and diagonal ribs intersecting at an apex forming a quadripartite pattern, Western 2-bays of the restoration.
scraped octagonal font of c1450.
royal arms of 1660 at West end.
Fragmentary medieval glass in North windows, that in South by Sir Ninian Comper.