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St Stephen

St Stephen

Winsham

Somerset

C13 origins, mostly C15 with C19 restoration.

Architectural Features

east window a 3-light C19 rebuild with geometric tracery and arched square-stop label: in south wall a plain lancet with label to east. a small 2-light early Perpendicular window to west, also with arched label, and between them a mouldid pointed arched doorway with label, probably C15: to north wall a 2-light early Perpendicular window with label to east, and a simple Lancet with unstooped label to west.

Central tower. in 3 stages, with octagonal-plan stair-turret, slightly higher, on south-west corner, has strings, corner gargoyles, battlemented parapets, side buttresses 2 stages high: lowest stage plain to north, but with restored 2-light C15 traceried window in deep hollowed recess on south

stage 2 has small lancet on east face: to all faces of stage 3 are 2-light C15 traceried windows in deep 4-centre-arched hollowed recesses, with clockface inserted on east side.

wide 3-light C15 traceried windows of varying patterns in deep hollowed recesses under arched square-stop labels, 2 each on north and south sides: west end has a former moulded pointed-arched doorway under deep square label with headstops, and foliage-carved spandrils, now converted to a 3-light window, flanked by, two half-height buttresses, and above an almost semi-circular-arched 3-light window with Curvilinear tracery under beadstop label.

2-light C15 style windows in gable walls, and a 3-light flat arched window in south wall

Chancel and nave arches of crossing of C15, with timber screen mostly of C15

Nave has a timber rib-and-panel roof with large bosses, possibly of C15

The Pulpit is undated but is known to be Jacobean.

Fittings include fine Jacobean timber panelled pulpit, with Ionic columns to corners, on a later base, with an octagonal tester having a bell-hip top with acorn finial

The Pulpit is undated but is known to be Jacobean.

© Ray Jennings

The Font.

C15 panelled octagonal stone font

The Font.

© Ray Jennings

of C15/Cl6, this is one of very few known with this subject, and formerly was set over the screen/rood loft.

Memorials include a wall tablet in marble commemorating Robert Henley, died 1639 in east wall of chancel.

First recorded rector 1321. (Pevsner, N, Buildigns of England, South and West Somerset, l958