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St Juthware and St Mary

St Juthware And St Mary

Halstock

Dorset

The west tower is C15

Architectural Features

Carved gargoyles are set diagonally on the corners and there is an embattled parapet.

The C15 tower arch has two chamfered orders, the outer is continuous and the inner springs from attached shafts with splayed capitals and moulded bases.

three of cast by the Purdue family at nearby Closworth (Somerset) in the C17.

FITTINGS: C19 octagonal stone font with convex lower part, an octagonal stem, and chamfered base.

There are red and black quarry tiles to the floors of the nave and the aisle

the sanctuary has red, buff and blue encaustic tiles, possibly of 1846-7.

Wall-monuments: nave, in white marble and slate, (1) To Rev. W Thompson, 1842. (2) To Mr Joseph Gill, formerly of the Island of Nevis, who departed this life on the 18th Day of April 1828, aged 80 years.

The stained glass in the east window dates from 1874 and is in memory of Mary Russell Meredith, the wife of Rev. RF Meredith

The stained glass in the west window dates from 2012.