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St Mary

St Mary

Corscombe

Dorset

C15 West Tower, and North Porch.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs.

West doorway with a moulded pointed head, and jambs, C15.

Other 2 have labels with C15 head stops.

North porch, C15, pointed arch and moulded jambs, Low-pitched gable with gargoyles.

Nave, north door sculptured composition externally, C15, standards set diagonally with angel-head brackets formerly supporting images.

Above doorway: 3 niches with half-angels as brackets, side-standards with trefoiled gables.

Fittings: Font, stone, octagonal with 2 cusped panels on each side.

C15, stem and base modern.

Pulpit, octagonal, of stone and carried on short marbled colonettes with foliage capitals.

East window: stained glass of 1877.

Monuments: Wall Tablet, by Chislett of Beaminster, to Joseph Bishop, 1823, Sarah his wife, 1800, and others.