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St Aldhelm

St Aldhelm

Doulting

Somerset

C12, C13, C14, C15, all rebuilt "stone by stone" in 1869 by George Gilbert Scott.

Architectural Features

C15 north porch with shafted 4-centred arch outer door opening, niche with a canopy set above, angle buttresses, pierced parapet, inside benched on flagstone floor, 4 wall monuments

2-storeyed with concave-sided gable, set-back buttresses, pinnacles, arcading, niches with canopies, statuary, 2-light window art the first floor, door opening with ogee label, carved heads as stops

inside benched on flagstone floor, stone fan-vaulting, 2 wall monuments.

Two bay south transept, pierced parapet with pinnacles, buttresses, large gargoyles, 2-light windows to east and west with square heads, cusping, 3-light south window with simple Perpendicular type tracery.

Decorated style, though clearly added 1869, earlier gargoyles reused.

Interior part plastered, some ashlared walls, on ornamental tile pavements.

Good original Perpendicular tie-bean roofs on angel corbels to the transepts, arcading, rich carving including angel figures.

Some C15 corbels in vestry and organ chamber, reset.

Majority of fittings in High Gothic style included the reredos, tiled texts in chancel, altar rails, choir stalls, screens, pulpit and pews.

Good C15 octagonal font with carving of angels.

Two C17 brass wall monuments.

Fourteen principal late C18 and earlv C19 monuments, one of C18 on brass.

Eight mid/late C19 stained glass windows