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The church plate consists of a silver chalice with trumpet-shaped stem with its paten cover, hallmarked 1640.

Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child

The niche, which has all the hallmarks of 14th-Century workmanship, has three little ogre arches, foliated crockets and finials.  The Madonna and Child, which now occupies the niche, is seated on a throne and is a very good specimen in carved wood with old colour and guilding.  The piece is in the style of the 16-17th-Century Venetian school and was formerly in the celebrated Strogonoff collection.  It was purchased in 1950 for £78 and was given to the church in memory of John Cory.

Lectern
Lectern

The modern stone lectern (pulpit) has a hexagonal drum and a castellated cornice.  The panels are arranged as single lights between the muntins, cinquefoiled with rectilinear tracery in the head.

The font is a typical plain 14th-Century design, even if the bowl is misshapen.  It is octagonal throughout with a moulded rim and underside and again at either end of the stem.  The base is simply a continuation of the piece above splayed out to meet the floor.  The photo at right shows detail of the carved, wooden lid.

Baptismal Font
Baptismal Font
Baptismal Font Carved Lid
Baptismal Font Carved Lid
Door to Tower
Door to Tower

Double wooden doors with leaded and beveled stained-glass windows provide access from the back of the nave to the tower.

Tower Crosses
Tower Crosses

The tower opens to the nave by an obtusely pointed arch.  The tower is tall and slender with saddleback roof surmounted by two crosses. The belfry is lit on each face by a single trefoil-headed louvered lancet and on its north, south and west faces are slit-loopholes at various levels.  The west doorway has a pointed arch with hooded moulding, and above is a small pointed lancet surmounted by a rare ancient bishop's consecration cross.   The tower houses a single bell, inscribed Llewellins & James, Bristol 1871.



 


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