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© Michael Bass
IoE Number:
269449
Location:
CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES, STATION ROAD (west side)
BURTLE, SEDGEMOOR, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Michael Bass
Date Photographed:
25 February 2001
Date listed:
24 February 1987
Date of last amendment:
24 February 1987
Grade
II
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BURTLE CP STATION ROAD (West side)
ST34SE EDINGTON BURTLE
6/10 Church of St Philip and St James
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- II
Anglican parish church. 1838-9 by Richard Carver, the County Architect and
Surveyor. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, slender buttresses
with offsets, coped verges, slate roof; to east a cruciform finial; to west a
polygonal stone bellcote with embattled parapet and ribbed stone spirelet with
poppy finial, weathervane, each alternating face with bell-opening, wooden
louvres. Nave, chancel, south porch, north vestry. Decorated style. Three
bay nave, 2-light windows with simple stone tracery, west end with narrow door
opening, above a blank 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window. Simple
porch, plain outer door opening, flagstone floor, inner plank door with good
iron hinges. Small plain vestry. Single bay chancel, 2-light square-headed
windows to north and south; 3-light east window with intersecting tracery.
Plastered interior on flagstone, tile and encaustic tile floors; plastered
elliptical shaped ceiling to nave; plastered wagon ceiling to chancel; bold
ornamental cornices; plastered chancel arch. The fittings are contemporary,
including west gallery, pews, font, reader, pulpit, decalogue plaque, altar
rails and choir stalls. Jacobean coffin stool. C19 wheeled bier. Stained glass
to west window of 1864; other windows with plain square paned leaded lights.
Brass memorial plaque of 1892. (Colvin H M, Biographical Dictionary of British
Architects, 1978).