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All Saints

All Saints

Wrington

Somerset

C13 foundation, remodelled with the addition of a west tower c.1450, restored 1859 with further restoration to tower in 1948.

Architectural Features

Finely jointed squared and coursed dressed stone, some coursed rubble to clerestory, with ashlar dressings, stone copings and stone tile roof to chancel, lead roofs to remainder.

Chancel has 3-light Perpendicular window to north and south walls but a renewed 5-light C13 east window with Decorated tracery.

Buttresses with set-offs, gargoyles and crocketted pinnacles to aisles, trefoil pierced triangular parapets to aisles and nave.

Tall 4-stage tower with set-back buttresses which develop into crocketted pinnacles at top stage, moulded string courses and trefoil pierced triangular parapet with gargoyles and corner pinnacles.

West facade has Tudor-arched doorway with panelled reveals and heraldic shields to spandrels.

4-bay nave arcades with clustered shafts and vestigial floral and figure capitals.

Compartmented tie beam roof with carved bosses and angel corbels.

Nave has Perpendicular octagonal font with angel panels, C16 rood screen with some renewal, C19 Perpendicular style pulpit

in the south aisle, stone effigy of a priest of c.1340.

Wall monument to Hannah More of 1833 above south door.

The stained glass of the tower, as with the rest of windows in the church, is a rather modern creation; the fabric of the church dates back to the fifteenth century.

Late C19 stained glass in aisles, east window and tower west window.

The stained glass of the tower, as with the rest of windows in the church, is a rather modern creation; the fabric of the church dates back to the fifteenth century.

© Neil Owen