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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Shepton Mallet

Somerset

Principally C12, C13, C14 with extensive C19 alterations.

Architectural Features

Tower, 1380, finest feature in early Perpendicular style.

West window of 6-lights, geometrical tracery, above 3-niches for statuary with original central figure.

Chancel, rebuilt 1847, has a reticulated window of 3-lights to East end, flanked to South by late C19 vestry, and to North by 2-storey vestry of the C15 which now contains the organ.

Interior has fan vault to tower, elaborate wagon roof of C15 to arcaded nave, arches dating from C12, early C13 chancel arch, and double piscina of c1235.

Furniture includes pulpit of c1450 having canopied and gabled niches, C14 font

2-effigies of knights dating from the C13 in the North aisle.

9-memorial plaques in the tower of the C17 and C18, several to the Strode family, including William Strode.