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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Holton

Somerset

Tower late C15, remainder rebuilt in 1869 by Henry Hall.

Architectural Features

plain clay tiled roofs, banded with scallop tiles, between stepped coped gables.

Tower of 2 stages: plinth, string courses, upper with corner gargoyles, battlenented parapets with simple obelisk corner pinnacles

chancel has an open raised-cruck type roof frame, wide C12 style chancel arch with richly carved capitals and corbels to hall-shafts

elaborate carved rere-arch to east window and imposts to other windows

encaustic tile and carved stone reredos, and choir stalls in character.

Nave has arched-braced collar-truss roof, plainer in detail: south transept has some C18 fielded panelling - this, with the matching pulpit, was removed from Sherborne Abbey to this church c1921.

Font, an octagonal bowl on circular shaft and base, somewhat damaged, possibly C12: on north wall a hatchment of 1738.

Stained glass of east and west windows by Powell.

Several C18 memorial tablets in tower

some carved fragments built into wall of south porch, thought to be Saxon.

First known rector in C13.