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St Mary and St John

St Mary And St John

Wyke Champflower

Somerset

C13, C14, C15, C19 restoration, Coursed rubble and some ashlar, freestone dressings, slate roofs to coped verges, finials.

Architectural Features

Plain C13 west tower, 2 stages, pyramidal roof, pennant windvane, blank parapet with coping, 3 large corner gargoyles, simple one and 2-light bell-chamber windows, some with cusped lights, renewed

bold diagonal 2-stage buttresses to west on lowest stage, lancet west window, above 2 stone faces set into the wall, C13, a man and a woman, possibly reused

benched inside on a flagstone floor stoup, stone-vaulted roof with ribs, C17 studded outer door with strap fringes, paired C19 ribbed inner doors.

Good moulded tie-leaf roof to nave, part C15, part C19

Norman tub font with cable banding, C17 tester.

Other fittings of high quality late C19 work, in medieval style including pews, altar, altar rails, stone reredos, and choir stalls.

Early C18 memorial over north door

good C18 memorial to chance in moulded architrave.

Five early/mid C19 wall monuments by Chapman of Frome, Reeves of Bath, and Rogers of Bath.

Sole stained glass to south nave window, the story of St Christopher.