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Saint Mary the Virgin

Saint Mary The Virgin

Hutton

Somerset

C15, major extension and restoration 1849 by S.C. Fripp.

Architectural Features

first stage has C15, plank west door in richly moulded four-centered arch under drip with angel stops below 3-light window

gargoyles and a trefoil pierced parapet

2-bay nave has 3-light windows between buttresses, at east a polygonal, battlemented rood stair turret has one tiny quatrefoil light, at gable head sits a sanctus bell cote of C15 work, but reset.

in east gable a C15 canopied niche is reset.

Interior: tall, moulded tower arch of waves and hollows rises to a lierne tracery vault on angel corbels, there is a C19 screen with mock linenfold.

Nave has a Wagon roof with decorated wall plate and bosses, remains of rood stair openings now house stairs to refixed stone pulpit of the local school-corbelled with friezes from a narrow stem, each panel has 2 cusped lights, separated by crocketed finials, all surmounted by 2 further floreate friezes.

The wave and step moulded C15 chancel arch enters work of 1849 with wagon roof

wide north arch into vestry to house organ, there is a reset C16 niche, tudor arch with cusped panels in the soffit and decorated spandrels, now housing damaged mural brass to the Payne family, 1528.

Glass: East window in nave has fragments of C15 and later heraldic glass, remainder is victorian and later.

Fittings: simple, octagonal font of late date, low, plain box pews of 1785 in north nave, stone reredos, between crocketed and canopied niches, of 1858.

Tablets: south aisle, marble and slate, with crown bearing arms, family effigies, Nathaniel Still, 1626