Description

ST52SW YEOVILTON CP PYLE LANE (South side)

3/172 Church of Saint Bartholomew

19.4.61

GV II*

Church. Circa 1300, severly restored in 1872. Local lias stone cut
squared and coursed, with Ham stone dressings; plain clay tiles with
bands of fish scale tiles between coped gables. 2-cell church, with
2-bay chancel and 3-bay nave with added South-chapel, North porch and
West tower. Chancel has 3-cusped light East window with C14 tracery,
with 2-light ogee-head traceried windows to sides; angled corner
buttresses with offsets, bay buttresses to full height; narrow door
between windows on South side, now blockedi remains of small figure in
trefoiled niche over East window. Nave has 2-light pointed arch
Perpendicular windows, much restored on South side. South chapel seems
mostly of C19 although remains of a Norman doorway arch used as a band
course under South window. South porch may be mostly C14 work, with
small 2-light opening with trefoil rere-arch in East wall, and sexfoil
window on West side, plain doorway arches. Tower rather heavy, in 3
stages of plain detail and square proportions. West door in moulded
almost semi-circular headed arch in a flat headed recess, the spandrils
foliated, door possibly C16, with sanctuary handle; Above a 3-light
window, evidently C19 restoration; on North side a statue recess
possibly of late C15, much eroded; very small rectangular windows in
North and South walls, stage 2, then almost triangular headed 2-light
C15 traceried windows to each face of stage 3. Plinth, string courses
each stage, and low slightly crenellated parapet, centre gargoyles and
corner pinnacles. Octagonal stair turret in South-west corner. Interior
locked and not accessible - said to contain a C14 piscina in the chancel
with an ogee arch, resting on a bust corbel; double-chamfered chancel
and tower arches dying into imposts, a nave wagon-roof with bosses;
statue bracket on South wall of the nave, and rere-arches to windows of
nave and chancel of late C13/early C14. The money to build the tower
bequeathed by a Rector in 1486. (Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of
England - South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST5468023013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5117378

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)