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St Aldhelm and St Eadburgha

St Aldhelm And St Eadburgha

Broadway

Somerset

C13 chancel

Architectural Features

transepts, nave, porch, and tower C15, reseated and chancel refitted C19.

ST3215 : Church gargoyle at Broadway

Crenellated 3-stage tower, crocketed finials in corners, gargoyles and string course, diagonal buttresses rising to 2-light trefoil-headed louvred bell- openings, trefoil-headed 2-light window with continuous hoodmould, 3-light west window resting on hoodmould of C19 west door, lancets to crenellated stair turret

ST3215 : Church gargoyle at Broadway

© Nick Chipchase

south front 3-light window to nave, gabled single storey porch with south-west diagonal buttress, boot scraper inset, moulded Perpendicular doorway interior render grooved as ashlar with ribbed barrel vault roof, pointed arch inner doorway and old studded door carved with grafitti, probably C17 work, diagonally buttressed south transept, 2-light south window with scratch dial said to be inset into wall below,, but not visible at time of survey , 3-light on east front renewed in C19, C19 priest's door, 2-light window, in diagonally buttressed chancel, 3 lancets forming east window, chimney at east gable end of vestry, north front lancet and doorway, 3-light cinquefoil-headed window on east front of north transept, setback buttresses, 3-light uncusped north and west windows, 3-light window to nave.

Ribbed and cusped wagon roof with floral bosses and wallplate to chancel, ribbed wagon roof to south transept, similar with brattished wallplate to north transept higher nave roof wagon roof with brattished wallplate and no bosses, Depresssed Tudor arch head openings with incised spandrels between chancel and south transept forming hagioscopes, 3 stone steps remain above of former stair.

Double roll moulded arched doorway to stair turret Carved fronts of choir stalls presented 1927, altar front and panelling c1925, piece of tomb stone set into cill of south chancel window with date 1717 visible.

Ham stone table with moulded surround to Sara the wife of John Forde, Vicar, died 1621, inscribed in Latin with good lettering.

Other memorials of note: to William Fewtrell, died 1777, wall tablet in grey and white marble with obelisk and urn

Fine Perpendicular octagonal font with each lace divided into 3 trefoil-headed bays containing a central figure flanked by shields, C20 base, Brass lectern.

Stained and coloured oak pulpit carved with the Five founds of Our Lord, restored in 1900 when the plaster coating removed and traces of colour were discovered.

Remains of mediaval glass in upper lights of east window in north transept, windows in nave dated l934 and 1933, east window dated 1923 and signed J Wippell and Co (Exeter), south window in south tansept dated 1903 west window 1863.

Bells rehung 1931 (i)1672 (ii) 1748 Thomas Bayley,Bridgwater, (iii) l672, (iv) 1798 George Davis Bridgwater,(v) 1583 A rare dedication to the Saxon saint of St Aldhelm who was Bishop of Sherborne

C8

died at Doulting in 709.

The isolation of the church from the village of Broadway, about half a ails to the south-west is attributed to C17 plague.