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All Saints

All Saints

Merriott

Somerset

C13, modified late C15/early C16, major restoration including extension of nave, new chancel and chapels by Benjamin Ferrey in 1860.

Architectural Features

plain clay tiled roofs with bands of scallop tiles between high coped gables with cross finials.

North aisle has plinth, string course with gargoyles and battlemented parapet, bay and offset corner buttresses.

Tower possibly Cl3, but modified in C15: plinth, string course to top with corner gargoyles and low plain parapet, tapered sides

C15 deeply moulded pointed arched west doorway with carved spandrils under square label.

Interior essentially C15 and C19.

Finely detailed C13 style arcades to side chapels with 4 detached shafts to each column.

Chancel arch probably C19, but in C13 style, with plain side arches.

C15 hollow-and-shaft arcading.

Wide tcwer arch in C13 style.

The Font

Pulpit now set in north aisles, C19 font in south aisle.

The Font

© Ray Jennings

At back of nave the base of an older font.

A carved stone cross fragment, set on cill of chancel east window.

Memorials include cartouche commemorating Patrick Roche, died 1712, by Parfore de Tetbury, Gloucestershire

First recorded rector in 1297.