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St Stephen

St Stephen

Whitminster

Gloucestershire

Nave and chancel of C12, tower of C15, south aisle late C15/early C16

Architectural Features

Tower of 3 stages with string courses, stepped diagonal buttresses up to second stage, embattled parapet with gargoyles, 2-light decorative louvred belfry openings on top stage with ogee heads, west side has pointed arch door and 2-light ogee over on lowest stage, scattered small stair lights.

North gabled porch has timber-framed front with bracket probably for an image, inner Norman doorway with roll-moulded arch on jamb shafts with raised capitals and chamfered abaci, scalloped and zig-zag lintel, with tympanum showing scene of Archangel Michael fighting with a dragon, small squints to each side of porch with stone wall seats below.

Large 4-light Perpendicular, window to east with square hoodmould, pointed chamfered arch for priest's door and small Norman lancet with inner splayed reveal on north side of chancel.

C14 three-light east window in chancel.

Tudor arched cavetto moulded doorway between bays one and 2, opposite north porch, with enriched spandrels and square hoodmould and original vertical battened door.

Interior: Norman chancel arch similar to north porch.

Remains of rood loft probably of C15.

Piscina in chancel and additional free- standing Norman piscina in south aisle, near baroque stone wall monument to John Harris 1727.