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Church of St Andrew

A Grade I Listed Building in Stogursey, Somerset

  • St Andrew: former Benedictine priory, a cell of Lonlay, build c.1100, suppressed 1414 & passed to royal foundation at Eton

  • St Andrew: cruciform church, late c11 tower, spire a c14 addition; external detail renewed in 1823

  • St Andrew: view from the south

  • St Andrew: nave rebuilt c.1500 for the parishioners

  • St Andrew: the Norman crossing

  • St Andrew: Norman arch in the chancel; central circular pier, escalloped capitals, dogtooth carvings

  • St Andrew: one of several Norman capitals

  • St Andrew: one of two Norman fonts; this Stogursey one with faces, a band of cable & a rim of saltire crosses

  • St Andrew; one of two Norman fonts; this Lilstock one is slightly later with a band of incised chevron

  • St Andrew: row of early c16 bench ends in the nave

  • St Andrew: monument to William Verney of Fairfield, d.1333; stiff effigy holding a heart

  • St Andrew: Beerstone monument to John Verney of Fairfield, d.1461; chest with six narrow niches divided by cusped panels

  • St Andrew: full length effigy of John Verney of Fairfield, d.1461, in plate armour

  • St Andrew: John Verney of Fairfield, d.1461; head rests on a helm, fern leaf from his coat of arms

  • St Andrew: detail from the monument to John Verney of Fairfield, d.1461, showing the weepers in contemporary dress

  • St Andrew: memorial to Peregrine Palmer of Fairfield, d.1684; cherub heads & flowers based on Gibbons

  • St Andrew: shield from the memorial to Peregrine Palmer of Fairfield, d.1684

  • St Andrew: memorial to Nathaniel Palmer of Fairfield in Stoke Courcy, d.1717, & wife Frances Wyndham, d.1712

  • St Andrew: shield from the memorial to Nathaniel Palmer of Fairfield.1717, & wife Frances Wyndham, d.1712

  • St Andrew: inscription from the memorial to Nathaniel Palmer of Fairfield in Stoke Courcy, d.1717, & wife Frances Wyndham, d.1712

  • St Andrew: memorial to Thomas Wroth of Petherton, third Baronet, d.1721

  • St Andrew: sub inscription from the monument to Thomas Wroth of Petherton, d.1721, with reference to his son-in-law Thomas Palmer of Fairfield, d.1734

  • St Andrew: memorial slab to Elizabeth, d.1735, wife of John Poole of this parish with their son d.1735 as an infant

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Entry Name: Church of St Andrew

Listing Date: 22 May 1969

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1057404

English Heritage Legacy ID: 265206

ID on this website: 101057404

Location: Priory Church of St Andrew, Stogursey, Somerset, TA5

County: Somerset

District: Somerset West and Taunton

Civil Parish: Stogursey

Built-Up Area: Stogursey

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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