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the Holy Cross

The Holy Cross

Thornfalcon

Somerset

C14-C15, restored 1882 by Benjamin Ferrey, tower restored 1912, church restored 1920, vestry added 1958.

Architectural Features

Squared and coursed lias north and east ends, otherwise roughcast, tower rendered, Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, concrete tiles to vestry.

Crenellated 3-stage tower, string course with gargoyles, set back buttresses rising to 2-light bell-openings with Somerset tracery, single light trefoil-headed opening below, 3-light west window set on lintel of Tudor arch head doorway, decorated spandrels and carved animals heads, aoulded plinth, north east stair turret, buttress at west end of nave inscribed with date MCMXII and lead plaque below stating that this was the date of the tower restoration

2-light window left of single storey gabled porch without coped verges, moulded arched entrance, wagon roof, illegible oval lias tablet above fine ribbed and studded late medieval door with original metalwork

C16 ceiled wagon roof to chancel, moulded ribs

wall plate, nave boarded wagon roof with earlier ribs, wall plate said to be dated 1652.

All nave windows with hoodmould terminals, mostly angels with shields, some knights and a bull.

To east of entrance chamfered arched niche, thought to be a holy water stoop, Fine collection of bench ends, two dated 1542, others carved in similar style by parishoners 1890-1914.

C18 pulpit with Ionic fluted columns and some inlay in panels, said to imported from another church in the late C19.

C13 octagonal font.

Stained glass in west window given by Miss Chisholm-Batten, died 1902.

Hatchment.