St Mary The Virgin

gargoyles, clock to south.

ST3534 : Westonzoyland, St. Mary's Church: Monster gargoyle 2

© Michael Garlick

Long five bay nave, embattled, gargoyles

gargoyles, buttresses.

Small vestry, C13 with a big buttress to north and a lancet window, further later lancet to east.

Interior of south porch plastered, flagstone floor, restored C15 roof, angel corbels

Interior of church plastered on flagstone floors, inset with many C17, C18 and C19 memorials including matrix of a former brass.

panelled arches to transepts with angel busts

nave under good roof, low pitch, big tie-beams, short arched-braces, angel busts, kingposts, close tracery of two tiers to left and right, beam over rood carved with initials:- "RB"

angel corbels.

Panelled lean-to roofs to aisles, bosses, again on angel corbels.

Vested figure of a priest in north transept, C13, in niche with restored cusped head.

Good set of C15 bench ends, large tracery motifs, some poppy heads, one with initials:- "RB".

C14 font, C19 cover.

chest dated 1670.

Victorian pews, pulpit and brass lectern.

Much work by Caroe including rood screen with loft, readers incorporating medieval work, benches, altar rails and altar tables.

Six principal C19 wall monuments.

Some remains of medieval glass to north and south transepts and to south west window of the chancel.

Following the Battle of Sedgemoor, July 6 1685, some 500 defeated rebels were imprisoned in the church for a short time. (Photographs in NMR).