St Martin

Three-stage embattled tower with corner pinnacles, gargoyles, diagonal buttresses with offsets, topping polygonal stair-turret, 2-light bell chamber windows with tracery, stone grilles, 2 and 3-light ringing-chamber windows, tracery, stone grilles

gargoyles

C13 lancets to north.

Interior plastered on flagstone floors wit good C18 memorials inset.

Nave and chancel under plastered wagon roofs with ornamental ribs and bosses, aisle with collar-and-tile beam roof with archbracing.

Norman tub font with cable banding.

The church of St Martin is dated to the thirteenth century but contains this Norman tub font. Such a piece of stonework is believed to date from the late twelfth and so could be from an earlier church in Fivehead.

© Neil Owen

Good Victorian High Gothic pulpit and lectern.

The wooden pulpit is a good example of Victorian High Gothic; above is an aumbry, rediscovered a few decades ago.

© Neil Owen

Good Edwardian altar table and painted canvas plaques with figures of romanticised saints flanking east window.

Four good early C19 wall monuments.

On south wall a reset brass to Jane Walsh of 1565, reused from a C13 memorial, some work of that period remaining on the rear.

Fragments of medieval stained glass to chancel and aisle.

Good stained glass window to aisle of 1930.