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St Andrew

St Andrew

Holcombe

Somerset

Late Saxon-early Norman establishment, rebuilt C16, C18 internal fittings

Architectural Features

Perpendicular with Norman work and neo Norman mannerisms.

Gabled porch with a re-used Norman doorway/chancel arch, semi-circular head with chevron moulding, 2 different scallop capitals on three quarter spiral-ornamented shafts.

Forming part of one capital is a stone with an inverted incised inscription, postulated of Saxon origin

set over the arch a C16 figure of an angel.

Further chevron ornament of C16 on gable face, apex with a base for a finial

kneelers in neo-Norman style.

Ribbed and studded inner door, probably C16.

Jacobean pulpit

Royal arms dated 1726.

Nine C18/C19 wall monuments by local firms.

A lonely site surrounded by the remains of a deserted medieval village, coach house at rear or The Old Rectory the only other early surviving building (qv).