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Latitude: 51.0082 / 51°0'29"N
Longitude: -2.9003 / 2°54'1"W
OS Eastings: 336929
OS Northings: 123591
OS Grid: ST369235
Mapcode National: GBR M9.JYW3
Mapcode Global: FRA 46TG.1WS
Plus Code: 9C3V235X+7V
Entry Name: Church of St Catherine
Listing Date: 17 April 1959
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1249584
English Heritage Legacy ID: 431759
Also known as: Church of St Catherine, Fivehead
Church of St Catherine, Swell
ID on this website: 101249584
Location: St Catherine's Church, Swell, Somerset, TA3
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Fivehead
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Church building
ST32SE FIVEHEAD CP SWELL LANE (Eastside, off)
HIGHER SWELL
4/64 Church of St. Catherine
17.4.59
GV I
Anglican church. C12, C15, C16. Rubble core, roughcast, slate roof, coped verges, 2 with bases for finials. Mainly
Perpendicular, Nave, Chancel, south porch. Three bay nave, 2-light windows with simple tracery, 4-light east window,
elaborate tracery. Two bay chancel, simple 2-light windows, traceried east window. Two large 3-stage buttresses to
south of nave, one of banded Ham stone and ashlar, the other roughcast, 4 similar buttresses to the north. Simple
gabled south porch, chamfered outer door opening with early graffiti. Inside of porch benched on a flagstone floor,
Norman inner doorway, semi-circular head with Arabesque decoration, colonettes. Interior plastered on flagstone floors,
nave with a ceiled wagon roof with ribs and booses, chancel with a ceiled wagon roof; panelled chancel arch. Two niches
with ornamental heads flanking east window. C16 pews, some restored. Octagonal Norman Font, Laudian alter rails. Fine
pulpit dated 1634, strapwork decoration, cornice; part of this pulpit also reused as a reader, Piscina with a cusped
head and bowl. Aumbrey with C19 door, C17 poor box, C17 chest. Fragments of medieval stained glass remains to lights of
all windows. Two small C16 brass plaques to floor with texts.
Listing NGR: ST3692823589
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