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St Mary

St Mary

Frome St Quintin

Dorset

C13 nave

Architectural Features

chancel, with C15

C17 refenestration.

Tower of c 1400 at north-west end of nave.

C15 south porch.

Clay-tile roofs with stone slab eaves, and stone gable-copings with C19 crosses at apices.

Chancel: 2 bays, two c C13 lancets north wall, Cl7 window in south wall, and lancet.

Nave has C14

C15 refen- estration.

South porch retains a C15 outer archway, two-centred and of 2 orders, inner order has responds and embattled capitals and moulded bases.

ST5902 : St Mary, Frome St Quinton: font

Font: Purbeck marble, octagonal bowl with 2 blind panels in each face, cylindrical stem and base, c 1200.

ST5902 : St Mary, Frome St Quinton: font

© Basher Eyre

Coffin-lid, chancel, tapering slab of Purbeck marble with incised cross, C13.

Wall-monuments.

To Thomas and Mary Bridge, 1793, 1833, wall monument with shield-of-arms.

Miscellanea: reset on porch, medieval corbel carved with two heads. (RCHM Dorset I, pl17(1))