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All Saints

All Saints

Combwich

Somerset

C12 establishment

Architectural Features

C14, C15, much C19 restoration.

Three stage embattled tower, diagonal buttresses, 2-light bell chamber windows with louvres, prominent gargoyles

each window opening with a label, those to south of nave with stops carved as heads

C15 inner door.

Scraped interior on tile floors.

Dating the church in Otterhapmton is not precise but the details appear to put its founding in the twelfth century, when there are records of a chaplain here. To help confirm the age this font is Norman, decorated with bands of saltire crosses and topped by a Jacobean cover.

Norman font with a ribbed Jacobean cover

Dating the church in Otterhapmton is not precise but the details appear to put its founding in the twelfth century, when there are records of a chaplain here. To help confirm the age this font is Norman, decorated with bands of saltire crosses and topped by a Jacobean cover.

© Neil Owen

restored C15 chancel screen with 2 Jacobean figures said to represent Adam and Eve.

Pews, choir stalls and pulpit of C19, also 2 sconces for candles adjacent North window of the chancel.

C17 altar rail, turned balusters, some removed.

The tower has an Elizabethan bell-frame and 4 bells, one of C16, 2 others dated 1617, 1737.