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St Mary

St Mary

Portbury

Somerset

Altered and extended early C13, c.1300

Architectural Features

C14/C15

West tower is mid C15 of 4 stages with diagonal buttresses, and a plain embattled parapet with pinnacles

two 3-light, c.1300, Geometric windows on south side, one with cusped intersecting tracery, dagger tracery and a quatrefoil above, the other with stepped cusped lancets

South porch is C15, 2 storeys with an embattled parapet and a blank, panelled arcade

C12 south door

C15 image niche.

C19 roofs on a good collection of 44 carved corbel heads, late C12 in the south aisle, late C14/C15 in the north aisle and late Ciileanly C12 in the nave

Tower arch is C15 with hollow and wave mouldings.

Chancel arch is c.1300, restored in C19

it rests on late C12 piers of 5 clustered shafts, the innermost one has a keel moulding, with scalloped capitals

triple sedilia and piscina with trefoil heads, roll moulding with a fillet, carved head stops, columns with circular capitals

carved corbels for lamps and lenten veil

Pulpit: C19, Perpendicular style wooden, on ashlar base.

Font: C12

C14 bench ends at eastern end of choir stalls

C14, re-used parts of benches in south aisle.

Monuments.

brass to Sara Kemish, died 1621, with kneeling and lying figures of children, C19 stone surround. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings [of England : North Somerset and Bristol).]