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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Batcombe

Somerset

Mainly C15, C16, restored C19.

Architectural Features

Rubble and ashlar, freestone dressings, tile and lead-sheeting roofs.

pierced parapet, gargoyles, tall double-transoned three-light bell-chamber openings, lower halves virtually blank, upper halves with stone quatrefoil grilles, flanking shafts and shafts between the openings, polygonal stair-turret to north, to south two crocketted niches for statuary

enriched west face with a four-light window divided into two-plus-two sub-arches, west doorway with leaf spandrels, string over with three decapitated angel figures

niche with figure with six attendant angels

south side with C18 monument at base

Four bay nave with a clerestory, pierced parapet, pinnacles gargoyles, three-light windows with depressed-arch heads.

Four bay south aisle, two windows to south of four-lights with square heads, pierced parapet, buttresses, west window of three-lights with a pointed-arch head, below it a C18 monument.

Gabled porch with a stone-tiled roof dated 1629, slender buttresses, those to front with crocketted finials, label with strapwork ornamentation, depressed-arch opening with foliate spandrels, paired C18 panelled doors

Two bay chancel, two two-light square-headed windows to south,C17 (?) three-light mullioned and transomed east window, traces of the jambs of the earlier window, below a C18 memorial.

Nave with low-pitched tie-beam roof, C18, large angel corbels of a former roof also retrain.

Aisles with lean-to roofs with moulded ribs and bosses, to north with corbels carved as angels.

Chancel with cusped C13 piscina.

Richly carved octagonal font, Perpendicular trough much restored.

A second font also present, C15, octagonal with simple quatrefoil panels.

Chest dated 1683.

C19 brass lectern.

Many memorials, some in the form of medieval wall paintings, presently covered.

Four C18 wall monuments by T.King of Bath, Ford of Bath, and Reeves and Son

C17 brass to Bisse family

C17 monument to Bisse family, probably c1640 with strapwork cresting.

C19 wall monuments.

Brass candelabra,donated 1737.

At the east end of the south aisle a stained glass window of c1896, by Heaton, Butler and Bayne