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Latitude: 51.1686 / 51°10'6"N
Longitude: -2.3675 / 2°22'2"W
OS Eastings: 374402
OS Northings: 141103
OS Grid: ST744411
Mapcode National: GBR 0T0.N85
Mapcode Global: VH97K.XW8J
Plus Code: 9C3V5J9M+C2
Entry Name: Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 11 March 1968
Last Amended: 27 November 1984
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1058224
English Heritage Legacy ID: 266932
ID on this website: 101058224
Location: The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary St John Baptist and All Saints, Witham Friary, Somerset, BA11
County: Somerset
District: Mendip
Civil Parish: Witham Friary
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
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WITHAM FRIARY CP
Church of St Mary, (previously listed as Priory Church of St Mary)
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Parish Church. Circa 1200 in Transitional style altered 1828, rebuilt and extended 1875 by William White in Muscular
Gothic. 3-bay nave and continuous one bay apsidal chancel, of local limestone rubble, supported on each side by 4
massive flying buttresses; combined pent roofed porch and vestry across West end; tall Western ashlar bellcote
surmounting steeply pitched plain tile roof. Semi-circular headed windows to North and South sides of c1200 except that
in West bay, all of 1875; blocked sanctus window on South side of chancel. Bulls eye West window of 3-light. Early
English East window again of 1875. Plastered interior entered through Norman style doorway has stone vaulted roof of
4-bays springing from octagonal corbels, comprising chamfered transverse ribs and diagonal ribs intersecting at an apex
forming a quadripartite pattern, Western 2-bays of the restoration. Nave contains Perpendicular upper and lower;
entrances to rood; scraped octagonal font of c1450. Jacobean pulpit containing medieval work; royal arms of 1660 at
West end. Chancel has double piscina with Carnaervon heads; reredos of 1875; Jacobean chair. Fragmentary medieval glass
in North windows, that in South by Sir Ninian Comper.
Listing NGR: ST7440241103
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