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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Nether Stowey

Somerset

C15 tower, remainder rebuilt 1851 by Richard Carver and Charles Edmund Giles, works executed by W M Shewbrooks of Taunton.

Architectural Features

Nave with South porch and North and South aisles, chancel with a North vestry, West tower, Embattled 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, corner pinnacles, embatted stair-turret, prominent gargoyles, 2-light bell-chamber windows

Restored octagonal font of C15

Much C19 stained glass, of particular note the East window of the Ascension of 1886 by Ward and Hughes and the North aisle window of the Good Samaritan of l893.