CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1058924
Date first listed: 29-Mar-1963
Date of most recent amendment: 09-Jan-1987
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FORE STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Somerset
District: Sedgemoor (District Authority)
Parish: North Petherton
National Grid Reference: ST 29028 33021
Summary
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History
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Details
ST23SE NORTH PETHERTON CP FORE STREET (South side)
7/76 Church of St. Mary
(formerly listed as North
Petherton Church)
29.3.63
GV I
Anglican Parish church. Dedicated C12, C15, early C16; alterations 1834-9 by Richard Carver and later C19 restoration.
Random rubble and ashlar, slate and lead sheeting roofs, coped verges and crenellated parapets. Nave, chancel, north
and south aisles continuing east as chapels clasping the chancel, north and south porches, west tower, east sacristy.
Perpendicular. Tower one of the finest in the county; 3-stages, set-back buttresses with 3 tiers of tall pinnacles,
embattled and quatrefoiled parapet, quatrefoiled bands between the stages; west doorway flanked by niches, one with
remains of a figure, quatrefoil frieze above with transomed 4-light window over, tracery also below the transom. On the
north and south sides of the bottom stage further statuettes in niches; second stage with 3-light transomed windows
with Somerset tracery; third stage with lavish bell openings, Somerset tracery, traceried panelling above; low stair
turret to south. All windows large with pointed arch heads, 3 and 4-lights; clerestory to nave with 3-light windows;
single storey sacristy. Inside of porch with corbels carved as angels. Scraped interior under panelled roofs, tower
with fan vault; some corbels carved as angels. Five bay arcades, with piers of 4-hollows section, circular capitals to
the shafts; studded with small rosettes. Lofty panelled tower arch and west arches to the chancel chapels of the same
type; arches between chapels and chancel have as east responds the busts of angels. Perpendicular pulpit, C14 font, the
former with fine traceried panels. Balcony gallery opening to south aisle from upper floor of the porch, dated 1623
with figure of Father Time. Two carved bench ends in nave dated 1596 and 1629. Carved door to sacristy. Carved
sculpture, known as Samson, over tower clock, originally carried pulpit. Brass to nave floor to Katherine Morley obit.
1652; matrices of 2 further medieval brasses remain. Fine screen of 1909 in Perpendicular style. Some C19 stained
glass; window by Kempe; 2 C20 windows by Sir Henry Holiday (Pevsner N., Buildings of England, South and West Somerset,
1958; VCH forthcoming).
Listing NGR: ST2902833021
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 269339
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1906)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing