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St Mary

St Mary

Cheddon Fitzpaine

Somerset

Late C13 tower, late C15-early C16 nave enlarged, porch and South aisle added, chancel rebuilt, 1861 church restored and North aisle added by Edward Jeboult.

Architectural Features

Red sandstone and blue lias random rubble, Ham stone dressings, slate roofs scalloped slates to chancel, decorative ridge tiles to nave, coped verges.

3 stage unbuttressed tower, C19 parapet pierced with trefoil headed openings, gargoyles, 3-light trefoil headed bell openings, C20 Somerset style tracery, string course, leaded lancet, C19 pointed arched West door, corrugated iron shed attached right to South West end of nave, South aisle parapet pierced with quatrefoils decorated with shields bearing the arms of the Percy family, amusing gargoyles, 2-light West window, diagonal buttresses, 2-light window left and 3-light right of single storey gable porch, moulded semi-circular arched opening said to be reset from South aisle, C19 compartment ceiling, pair of C19 noticeboards, crenellated with 2 bay cusped arcades, painted and gilded, 4 centred arch inner doorframe, C15 ribbed and studded door said to have been rebacked 1722, 2-light East window to South aisle, bulge at junction with nave, perhaps indicating ealier rood loft stair, chancel 2-light windows flanking priest's door, diagonal buttresses to chancel, 3-light East window, 2-light on North front, 2 light to organ chamber, North door, uncrenallated North aisle, two 2-light and one 3-light window, stepped buttresses, 2-light West window.

Fine collection of C16 bench ends, nearly all with bay leaf wrapped surrounds, later one inscribed EG.SG 1660.

Perpendicular Ham stone pulpit on waisted baluster with steps.

Two C19 painted tin sheets detailing local charities of 1710 and 1672.

No monuments of note.

Mid C15-mid C16 the manor and advowson was held by the Percys, Dukes of Northumberland, and much of the church was built by them