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Saint Mary

Saint Mary

East Chinnock

Somerset

C14 origins, now mostly C15 and C19 work.

Architectural Features

Chancel C14 in character: plinth full height buttresses angled to corners: 3-light trefoil cusped arched pointed East window, C14 tracery

on North wall a C16 flat headed window of two 4 centre arched lights

and likewise 3 narrower windows in South wall, the central one shortened to fit porch, South porch very simple, possibly C14

Tower of C14/C15 in three stages

battlemented parapets with prominent corner gargoyles: stage 1 has moulded pointed arched doorway with 3 cinquefoil head light window with C15 tracery set in hollowed recess without label

In nave a C16 4 linenfold panel chest near pulpit

octagonal font on circular base with water-holding moulding, possibly of C13.

All but East window have mid C20 stained glass by Gunther Anton of Stuttgart, a former prisioner of war