Architectural Features
Tower in two stages plus lower ground level, with diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, with two gargoyles to each face, and crenellated parapet with small corner pinnacles.
At lower level, immediately on road, C16 doorway with basket arch on plank door with strap hinges.
East end of nave, north side, octagonal projection with stone roof, has inner arch to pulpit, and seems too low to have served rood.
Walls have linenfold wainscot, continuing detail of fine oak screen of 1913, with central doors and three lights each side, inscription records as memorial to George Moger.
Chancel, one step, has very complex C19 ceiling in three facets and many panels, each with dropped cusped surrounds, to bold carved bosses.
Behind organ loft and vestry FITTINGS and GLASS: All glass C19 or C20, tower west window has form of grisaille with blackberry decoration, and three coloured panels.
Polished hardwood pews have small doors, richly carved broad octagonal pulpit on five high stone steps, and small brass lectern.
Font, under tower, fine early C18 bowl supported by three winged cherubs, and with gadrooned base.
Carved oak screen of 1913.
MEMORIALS: There are many C19 white marble tablets in nave.
Earlier memorials of interest are two white marble cartouches with crowning cherubs, at west end of nave, that to north to Anna Bennet, d.1730, and to south to Martha Bennet, d.1739.
In tower, south side, thick slab of 1610, with artisan lettering and inscription, to Jane Gay, and large rococo cartouche in white marble to ..
On north side fine double tablet with pediment, and weeping figure.
Over chancel arch painted Royal Arms dated 1660.
HISTORY: In porch painted panel records first vicar as 1322
there is thought to have been a church here in the C12.
In 1573 parishes of Widcombe and Lyncombe were merged with rectory of Bath, and vicarate was not revived until 1855.