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St Michael

St Michael

Cudworth

Somerset

C12 origins, with north doorway and one small window of that period.

Architectural Features

C13 nave

chancel with C14

C15 modifications.

Chancel has plinth, angled corner buttresses and 2 full-height buttresses on north side, but none on south: the east window a 3 light 'Y' tracary window of C14 under arched headstop label

in north wall a C14 traceried 2-light window under arched headstop label to east, and single lancet to west

between these a blocked chamfered segmental-pointed arched doorway with former statue niche over, above this being the water tabling for a previous proch: in the west nave wall a C19 doorway in rectangular recess without label, above which is a 3-light C15 pattern traceried window in deep hollowed recess - the whole of this wall apparently a C19 rebui1d: the bell turret has a pitched stone roof

pointed-arched apertures for 2 bells, both of C17 date.

North aisle has lancet windows - on north wall a pair towards east end, then a single cusped lancet and a plain lancet flanking a C12 doorway having single sideshafts, roll-and-recess moulded arch with label: the tympanum mostly plain but incorporating some stones with acanthus-type decoration: in east wall a 3-light almost Curvilinear-traceried window in slight recess, under which is a very small C12 window apparently with round-headed recess internally west wall plain.

no chancel arch but traces of a C16 rood screen: nave ceiling opened out and new roof to aisle in 1904

C20 carvings in chancel.

The Font.

Fittings include large early C13 font with dog-tooth and cable-mould decoration: Jacobean pulpit

The Font.

© Ray Jennings

fragments of pre-Reformation altar top and a carved and painted statue niche: mutilated C13 tomb top.

Inscribed memorial to Sarah Smyth d 1684.

Fragments of medieval glass in east window of north aisle.