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St Mary

Architectural Features

chancel remodelled C15 with later C15 south porch and chancel chapel

Nave has west elevation with large 6-light window with sub-arches, pointed arch, hood mould and angel stops, image niche above with seated figure, probably the Trinity, coped verge with fleurons and finial, window has moulded cill above pointed arched west door, surround of 3 hollow moulded orders, figure in niche in central order to each side, carved hood, finial and pinnacles to sides

3-stage hexagonal turret left and right with string courses continued over heads of aisle windows, with lancets, cornice, pyramidal ribbed stone roofs, carved finial to north, missing to south, plinth.

North and south elevations of nave haves-bay clerestorey, all pointed arched 2-light windows with cusped lights and quatrefoil, hood mould and mask stops, turrets have small pointed arched door to aisle roof and upper door to nave roof behind similar parapet with crocketed pinnacles and gargoyles between bays.

5-bay north aisle has four 4-light windows with Y-tracery in upper sections, hood mould, weathered buttresses between with triangular shafts rising to crocketed pinnacles above similar parapet, large gargoyles, 3 fully remaining, 3 1/2 bays of parapet of C20 replacement

South aisle as north, with fine carved demonic figure as gargoyle to west, scratch dial to west of porch

angel under parapet as on aisles, central image niche, lancets to west wall, clasping buttresses, scratch dial on south east buttress, gnomon missing, with figures 7, 8 and 9.

Tower of 3 stages has diagonal weathered buttresses with crocketed pinnacles, south east hexagonal stair turret rising above parapet with panelled sides to top, open cusped parapet, tower has parapet with similar frieze, gargoyles, octagonal spire, truncated and ribbed with pinnacles above ribs, WH and IW in lead, weathercock of 1822, string courses

North chapel has pitched roof, 2 north windows, 4-centred arched, 3-light with fine upper tracery, hood moulds, similar parapet with gargoyles, north east octagonal angle turret with string course and cusped lancet, crocketed pinnacles, spire and finial

Interior: nave has 10-bay wagon roof, demi-figures of angels on wall-plate, principals moulded and painted

5-bay pointed arched arcade to north and south, section of piers a Greek cross with concave quadrants in the diagonals, demi-shafts attached to the ends of the cross-arms, thin attached shafts set in the hollows, shafts have small capitals with bits of leaf, east responds have heads instead, north east capital with green man

North aisle has north door with pointed segmental head with fleurons, stone with quatrefoil piscina re-set in wall to right of door, north east window has remains of shaft and carved figure on cill, possibly from former rood support, pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders to north transept and stonework remaining at upper level, possibly remains of buttress to earlier nave.

Porch has thin-ribbed lierne vault, carved bosses including a green man, paired shafts to corners, 4-centred arched door with fleuron frieze, image niche above.

Chapel has framed ceiling in 9 panels of C19, stone angel corbels remaining from former roof, east window has tall elaborate image niche to left and right with clustered pinnacles to tops, pillar piscina to right, 4-centred arched north door to stair turret.

Fittings: 2 carved oak figures of St. Peter and St. Paul in nave, in Baroque attitudes, made for the organ of Bath Abbey 1708

ST4365 : St Mary, Yatton: font

C19 stone octagonal font in south aisle

ST4365 : St Mary, Yatton: font

© Basher Eyre

Mediaeval monuments in north transept (De Wyck Chapel) 2 effigies in recesses with broad cusped ogee gables, a knight and lady c.1325, possibly Sir Robert de Gyene and his wife Egelina de Wyck

alabaster monument to Sir Richard Newton, 1449 and his wife, 1475, good recumbent effigies on tomb chest with ogee niches filled by figures of angels carrying shields

in chapel, monument to Sir John Newton, 1488 and Isobel of Cheddar, 1498, recumbent effigies on tomb chest with quatrefoils in recess, broad buttresses and pinnacles left and right, low Tudor arch with openwork cusps, tracery in spandrels and crocketing, relief of the Annunciation on back wall, frieze of 10 niches for figures, half a figure left, upper fleuron frieze and cornice.

marble tablet to John Norman, 1837

in north chapel, marble monument with broken pediment and shield, to Henry Grimsteed, 1714, by M. Sidnell of Bristol

marble monument with draped urn, to Hannah Markham, 1768

in chancel, marble monument to Thomas Wickham, 1829.