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St George

St George

Sampford Brett

Somerset

Circa 1300.

Architectural Features

North transept, tower late C14 - early C15, 1835-43 chancel, vestry and West end of nave rebuilt, West porch and organ chamber added, restored 1960-2 after World War 2 damage, West windows rebuilt 1967.

The main feature of the church is the light-hearted plasterwork foliage decoration in the chancel of circa 1835 with slender colonettes flanking openings, foliage wall plate and plasterwork angel bosses to the ribbed vaulted roof.

C19 ribbed barrel vault to North chapel, nave roof C15 ribbed and plastered wagon roof with bosses.

Octagonal font with trefoil headed cusping, base day be an inverted medieval bowl

C17 communion table used as side altar

bench ends of early C16

early C17 reset C19

hatchment in North transept chapel which used to contain an effigy of a late C13 cross legged knight, thought to be Sir William Brett died 1295, now in vestry

slate and marble wall tablet to Zacharias Wyndam died 1627 set above entrance to vestry

small amount of armorial glass dated 1743 belonging to another Wyndam, set in West window.