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Saint Mary

Saint Mary

Hardington Mandeville

Somerset

Early foundation, rebuilt 1123 with much C15 and C19 work Ham stone, cut and squared rubble with ashlar dressings

Architectural Features

plain clay tiles with bands of fish-scale tiles between coped gables, ornamental ridge to chancel

C14 type tracery to 3-light East window

on South wall a C13 style group of 3 cusped lancets,

a C16 style single light under square label, and between them a plain arched doorway.

North chapel in C14 style, but a C19 rebuild, with 3-light traceried North window and 2-light traceried East window.

North aisle has offset buttresses marking each bay, with cusped lancets between them, and C14 style traceried 2-light window in West wall, matching those to South wall of nave which are also set between offset buttresses.

The South porch of C19, in C15 style.

Tower probably of 1123, in three stages, with plinth and string courses marking each stage, plain parapet with small gargoyles and pinnacles to each corner

no buttresses, but square plan stair turret for stage-and-a-half on West end of South face: Stage 1 has plain moulded pointed arched West door, and above a 3-light C15 traceried window set in hollowed recess

stage-3 has 2-light simple C15 tracerled windows set in hollowed recesses, one to each face

Internally all of the work is C19, even the convincing C12 style North Chapel arch, which was carved by Revd, J. Hancock, curate of nearby Haselbury.

Surviving features include circular font of possibly 1123, with cable mould around waisted base and lozenge ornamental band below rim

good C16 alter table with bulbens legs

wood pulpit of early C17, and 3-panel parish chest of C17.

The clock mechanism no later than 1707, 6 bills in tower, 3 from the Purdue (Closworth) foundry, one dated 1591

three of C17, one C18 and one C20.