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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Churchinford

Somerset

Early-mid C14, restored C1719, restored, reseated, and west gallery erected 1830, rood screen added c1910.

Architectural Features

Squared and coursed chert stone, roughcast west end and tower with Ham stone dressings and quoins, others limestone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, decorative ridge tiles.

Diagonally buttressed and crenellated 2-stage tower, obelisks in angles, gargoyles, string courses, 2-light bell openings with pierced wooden board in imitation of Somerset tracery, lancet west window, 4-centred arch west door with hoodmould, C19 door

Ribbed wagon roof with floral bosses in chancel, plaster barrel vault to nave with ridge purlin, moulded wagon roof to aisle, Nave and aisle filled with box pews with brass number plates, some very fine former bench ends forming west gallery, some of which appear to be mid C16, cast iron column support and inscription stating the gallery was erected 1830.

Good Jacobean pulpit.

Norman font, stated by Pevsner to be an unfinished example of the Bodmin type.

Early C20 rood screen.

Late C19 stained glass in east windows, remains of medieval stained glass in upper lights of 3 eastern aisle windows and in western window of nave.

Minton tiles in sancturary.

Table dated 1623 with turned legs and carved sections possibly remodelled.