St Cuthbert

EXTERIOR: elevations consistently C15 except for south and north transepts and the north porch actually the Treasury).

INTERIOR: mixed C13

C15 work.

The chancel and its aisles all C15, including the piers, which have four-wave mouldings.

The crossing piers appear trimmed back, the main nave piers all C13, heightened by matching C15 work by another 3m, carrying a Somerset timber roof, low pitch with the beams for every second principal, with bravery over, lavishly ornamented with angels, rosettes and shields, all fully coloured after a 1963 restoration by Alan Rowe.

The treasury (in position of a north porch) of C13 character, now the choir vestry

immediately eastwards the 2-bay Chapel of the Holy Trinity, C15, and associated with the City Corporation.

The north transept (St Catherine's Chapel) has the remains of its C13 reredos on the east wall, rediscovered in 1848, likewise in the south transept (The Lady Chapel) another stone reredos of 1470, based on the Stem of Jesse theme.

fine carved wood pulpit of 1636, with elaborate stair

two carved coats of arms, of Charles I, 1631, and Charles II

font, octagonal on shaft, C15 style but may be largely C19.

Amongst the memorials are a medieval incised inscription to Thomas Tanner (late C14), altar tomb of Thomas Leigh , and his wife, brass to Francis Hayes in stone surround, a large stone monument with effigy to one Luellin , and a C18 monument to R Kingston signed by Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton.

Noted by Pevsner and others as one of the finest medieval churches in Somerset, with a rich sequence of monuments.