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St Nicholas and Mary

St Nicholas And Mary

Stowey

Somerset

C15 and C19 alterations.

Architectural Features

Ashlar to tower parapet, freestone openings and copings, slate roof to nave, plain tile roof to chancel.

Nave south wall has 2 recut cusped light Perpendicular windows under flat hoodmoulds with lozenge stops, 1 blocked Tudor arched window and one single light triangular headed C19 window.

Chancel north wall has in addition a Tudor arched doorway with C19 plank door and above, a mediaeval statue of God the Father set in shallow niche.

Junction between nave and chancel on the north side has a quoin carved with shears: symbol of the Wool Staplers' Guild.

A face above the west tower of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary, probably dating from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century.

Moulded stringcourses, 2 cusped light bell openings with dense quatrefoil piercing and hoodmoulds, moulded cornice below parapet with fine gargoyles, one to each, face including a ram's head.

A face above the west tower of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary, probably dating from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century.

© Neil Owen

Gabled north porch with Tudor arched doorway, plain C19 north doorway and plank door.

Nave has double chamfered tower arch and C19 wagon roof on mediaeval wall plate.

Nave at tower arch has an octagonal Perpendicular font with quatrefoil panels.

Charles II coat of arms dated 1660 over north door.

3 fine wall monuments on south wall to the Jones and Sandford families: earliest to William Jones by Thomas Paty.

C19 Perpendicular style pulpit.

1846 floral stained glass in east window.