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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Ditcheat

Somerset

Anglican parish church, C12, C13, C14, C15, C19 restoration.

Architectural Features

Four-bay embattled nave with 3-light clerestorey windows, gargoyles, pinnacles, tall 4-light west window, grotesque heads as label stops, west door, paired C18 doors, label with carved heads of a bishop and a king.

Narrow 4-bay embattled aisles, gargoyles, pinnacles, buttresses, 3-light windows.

Porch with an embattled parapet, pinnacles, gargoyles, squat diagonal buttresses, inside is benched with a flagstone floor.

Three-bay chancel with clerestorey, embattled parapet with shields in relief, 2- light traceried windows, 3-light east window, spheric triangle in head with trefoils, priest's door to south with surface tracery, external C18 wall monument to the east end.

Embattled transepts, 3 and 4-light windows, short section of C18 railings between south transept and porch, The interior mainly plastered on flagstone, tile and encaustic tile floors.

Stone fan-vault-under the tower, nave under good tie-beam roof, arcading and angel busts

lean to roofs to aisles with moulded ribs, bosses and angel corbels

Flanking west tower iron are 2 small carved figures.

North aisle with large C13 wall-painting of St Christopher.

Octagonal C14/C15 font with early C18 tester.

C15 effigy to chancel.

Restorer richly carved Jacobean pulpit and reader.

C17 chest.

Part of a C17 screen incorporated in C19 screen in north transept.

Former C17 altar table modified C18 to become a desk.

Full set of C18 pews, some with archaic carving (strapwork etc.), altered C19.

C19 High Gothick chancel fittings which include choir stalls, reredos, altar rails and memorials.

Very fine C18 marble wall monument in south transept with a pediment and a bust, further good monument over south door by Ford of Bath with grieving muse

eight principal C19 wall monuments.

Large wooden cartouche to Robert Hopton, dated 1610, though probably later.

Some fragments of medieval glass to top lights of windows.

Hanoverian royal arms.