
Hatch Beauchamp
Somerset
Norman in origin, C1500 tower, porch dated 1530, north aisle chapel 1825, south aisle and chapel added 1834, church restored, chancel arch rebuilt further east and end bays of north and south aisles added in 1867 by Sir 6eorge Gilbert Scott, earlier addition by Richard Carver.
Crenellated 3-stage tower with crocketed pinnacles, pierced parapet with quatrefoils and arcades in the merlons, gargoyles, corbelled out pinnacles rising from diagonal buttresses, 3-light bell-openings with Somerset tracery, 4-light west window set on lintel of Tudor arch head doorway with decorated spandrels, C19 door, north east stair turret
3-light west window to south aisle, 3-light windows flanking single storey gabled porch, C19 Tudor arch inner doorway, much restored late medieval door, diagonally buttressed transept (vestry), 3-light window in gable end, door on east front, large 3-light south window to chancel with decorated spandrels, 3-light east window, diagonal buttresses, 2-light window on north wall of chancel, 3-light window at east end of north said to be reset from east end of north aisle, C19 doorway, north front four 3-light windows with stepped buttresses between, blocked moulded Tudor arch opening, some pieces of quatrefoil decorated panels either from tower or from crenellated parapet to aisle inserted in plinth, 3-light west window.
C19 piscina and aumbry, stone reredos and tiles in sancturary.
C19 stained glass: window of south aisle to Ellen Raban died 1854, signed A Gibbs, Bedford Square London.
Remains of medieval stained glass in upper lights of west window in north wall of north aisle.
The chancel arch demolished in 1867 is said to have been Norman.