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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Kittisford

Somerset

Circa 1500 mid C17 addition, restored 1875.

Architectural Features

3-bay nave with chapel continuing from South aisle, South porch, West tower, C17 North projection.

3-stage tower, crenellated parapet, setback buttresses without render, Tudor arch doorway with 3-light window above, reticulated like East window.

South window 3-light square headed with Tudor arch heads.

Gabled C19 porch giving access to West door of South aisle Annex on North side rated externally 1659 above blocked doorway with gothic survival 2-light trefoil headed, ovolo moulded windows.

Major feature 2-bay wooden arcade, restored C19, with Tudor arches.

Priests door to North, piscina in South chapel and 2 brasses to Richard and Agnes Bluett, farmer died 1524, minus their epitaphs.

This decorated wooden pulpit is in the Church of St Nicholas. Pevsner gives the date 1610; http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-270107-church-of-st-nicholas-stawley suggests 1616. The first three digits are indisputable.

Wooden pulpit dated 1616.

This decorated wooden pulpit is in the Church of St Nicholas. Pevsner gives the date 1610; http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-270107-church-of-st-nicholas-stawley suggests 1616. The first three digits are indisputable.

© Derek Harper

Perpendicular pedestal font.

C17 door.

Roger Wood of Overtown, Kittisford in his will of 3 September 1657 left 200 pounds to build a new aisle in the church, hence the North annex.