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St Mary Magdalen

St Mary Magdalen

Dowlish Wake

Somerset

C12 origins

Architectural Features

North transept similar, but with Curvilinear tracery to parapets, and having corner gargoyles: 3-liqht north window, blank on east and west sides.

string courses, the top with flower boss ornament and corner gargoyles, then a low castellated parapet

stage 3 has a 2-light Curvilinear-traceried window with louvres on each side, set in a hollowed arched reveal with ballflower decoration and headstop label. inside, the work scholarly and consitent: the chancel has a timber moulded rib and panel ceiling, an ornamental carved stone dado, in elaborate piscina on the north side, and also a table-tomb in ojee niche.

Chancel arch finely moulded, the chancel floor of patterned encaustic tiles.

All fittings if the l850s, notably the octagonal wood pulpit on a slender base, the choir stalls, lectern, pews (including a traceried front to the Pitt chapel), and a richly decorated octagonal font, which has a fine timber openork cover.

Memorials include the chancel table tomb, to Stephen Pitt-Harris, died 1848, and in the north transept memorials to Stephen Pitt and George Pitt, both died 1865, both memorials by White of Pimlico.

In nave a copy of the Raghael Virgin and Child, with St John the Baptist and an angel, by a Miss B1andy. (Pevsner), N, Buildings of England, South and west Somerset, l958).