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St Mary

St Mary

Chedzoy

Somerset

C13, C14, C15, C16, restored 1884-85 probably by William Butterfield.

Architectural Features

Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, tile and lead-sheeting roofs, crested ridges, copings to verges with cruciform finials.

Predominantly Perpendicular, high 3-stage tower of Quantock type, set-back buttresses which end in long shafts of former pinnacles, string below parapet with gargoyles, embattled parapet with blank quatrefoil banding, corner pinnacles, paired 2-light bell-chamber openings with tracery, louvres, flanking shafts with pinnacles

This parapet continues around south porch, cruciform finial, door opening with a chamfered head to segmental pointed arch, over a freestone panel with initials R.B. ), R.F., an heraldic shield with a Wyvern, and also date 1579

interior benched on a flagstone floor, late C13 inner doorway with fine C16 door, ribbed and studded with lozenge decoration.

Three bay north aisle, narrower than the south, square-headed 2 and 3-light windows with tracery, north doorway with plank door, scrolly C15 ironwork

Chancel rebuilt in facsimile, late C13, though incorporates some medieval work

Good moulded tie-beam roof to nave, panelled lean-to roofs to aisles, wagon roof to chancel with a carved wall-plate with bosses, gilded decoration.

Restored C13 5-bay aisle arcades, circular piers, moulded caps, double-chamfered arches.

C13 style sedilia.

The adorned font is an original feature, being about thirteenth century and an Early English example.

Octagonal font, Early English.

The adorned font is an original feature, being about thirteenth century and an Early English example.

© Neil Owen

Good medieval chest.

Full set of benches with carved ends, broad tracery, geometrical patterns, leaf motifs and on one the monogram of Queen Mary

some C17 benches, Eliabethan pulpit with linenfold panelling.

Jacobean lectern, altar rails, altar table, chair and organ seat made up of re-used panels.

Hatchment.

Brass in nave to Richard Sydenham in armour, c1490.

C18 wall monuments.

High Gothic fittings associated with 1884 rebuild including candelabra, rood screen (which may incorporate medieval remains), organ, reredos, altar rails, choir stalls, and stained glass.

Further stained glass window of 1908, probably by Morris and Co.