St Stephen

clerestorey of 4-light Tudor-arched windows separated by thin buttresses which run up through a drip mould into a crenellated parapet

porch with a Tudor arch hung with open cusps, and splayed reveals with hollow mouldings and Tudor roses

Large W nave window has a flat Tudor arch and 6-light transomed lights.

a deep dripmould with gargoyle beasts and an open traceried castellated parapet, open square turrets with thin buttresses bearing on gargoyle corbels and a similar octagonal spirelet to the stair turret.

INTERIOR: panelled reredos by Hansom, with defaced angels above.

7-bay nave, columns with 4 attached shafts to painted angel capitals holding scrolls, and similar corbels to the shallow roof

lower N aisle wall with wall tombs is C14.

Base of tower has tall narrow arches with attached shafts and bell capitals, bearing on angel corbels, with vestigial fan vaults.

C15 arch-braced tie beam roof with gilded bosses.

An ornate large marble pulpit of 1890 by Harry Hems of Exeter with canopied niches containing statues, ramped steps and wrought-iron handrail

panelled choir stalls with poppy heads and pews with carved bench ends of 1886

ornate font of 1882, a square base with marble shafts rising to an octagonal basin with trefoil panels.

Wrought-iron gates with piers, early C17, by William Edney.

MEMORIALS: Royal Arms of Charles II over S door.

N aisle: 3 ogee-arched chest tombs, to the W that to Edmund Blanket d. 1371, a crocketed ogee arch with open cusps, containing recumbent figures of a man and wife praying, and trefoil panels with figures to the chest beneath.

Dresser tomb to Martin Pringe d. 1626, an oval tablet with allegorical figures on the corners in an aedicule with Corinthian pilasters to a broken segmental pediment bearing a cartouche and 2 recumbent statues

Dresser tomb to Sir George Snygge d. 1617, a panelled plinth with 3/4 Corinthian columns bearing a dentil cornice, with obelisks either side and a heraldic panel above

inside is an arch with roundels and strapwork and plaster figures, and an alabaster recumbent figure resting on his elbow.

Wall tablet to Robert Kitchin d. 1594, a rectangular painted frame with fleurs-de-lys at the corners and a kneeling couple inscribed on a brass plate.

It originally stood beside the quays by the River Frome, excavated mid C13.