St Michael And All Angels

C15 with 1868 restoration and additions comprising south porch and north vestry.

Squared and coursed rubble to main body, squared and coursed dressed stone to tower and south aisle parapet, flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone copings and C20 plain tile roofs.

Chancel has Tudor arched blocked south doorway.

South tower of 3 stages with set-back buttresses, moulded string courses, polygonal north west corner stair turret and embattled parapet with corner gargoyles.

C19 south doorway with above, a C15 niche in which is set a 1931 statue of St. George.

Nave at south door has octagonal Perpendicular font with quatrefoil panels and Perpendicular style rood screen and pulpit installed in 1916 and 1919 respectively.

Several C18. and C19 wall monuments under tower.

Fragments of medieval stained glass in south chapel east window, late C19 stained glass in nave and chancel windows.

ST5161 : Stained Glass Window in Butcombe Church, Somerset (8)

© Basher Eyre