Churchill Generation
These churches have smaller towers with a single window in each face of the top stage; a pierced top parapet without merlons and four square-set corner pinnacles above.
| Name of church | Photograph | Listed building grade | Year tower built | Height | Location | Description | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St John the Baptist | A !I | c. 1360 OR after 1420 | Churchill 51°20′03″N 2°48′00″W / 51.3342°N 2.8001°W / 51.3342; -2.8001 (Church of St John the Baptist, Churchill) |
The church was built around 1360. The tower has three stages with diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, north-east polygonal higher corner stair turret with blind panelled embattled cap and pierced quatrefoil lozenge parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles. | |||
| Church of St Michael the Archangel | A !I | c. 1370 OR 1443 | 70 feet (21 m) | Compton Martin 51°18′37″N 2°39′15″W / 51.310281°N 2.654161°W / 51.310281; -2.654161 (Church of St Michael the Archangel, Compton Martin) |
Built around 1370 in a Norman style. It is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel. Norman vaulting can be seen in the chancel and Jacobean work in choir stalls and organ screen. The tower is approached from the nave via a lofty Tudor paneled arch. It contains six 18th century bells, five of which were cast by the Bilbies of Chew Stoke. In the north wall is a recess containing the effigy of Thomas de Moreton which was discovered in 1858. One of the columns in the South side of the nave has an unusual spiral fluted decoration known as an apprentices column. Above the ceiling of the Bickfield Chapel there is a void which contains a columbarium or dovecote. This housed 140 “squabs” or pigeons in 1606 for the rector’s table. | ||
| Church of St Andrew | A !I | c. 1380 | Compton Bishop 51°17′40″N 2°52′03″W / 51.2945°N 2.8676°W / 51.2945; -2.8676 (Church of St Andrew, Compton Bishop) |
The church dates from the 12th century, being consecrated by Bishop Jocelin in 1236, with more recent restoration in 1370. It has a 15th century pulpit with tracery panels, carved friezes and cresting. Above the pulpit is a large pedimented wall monument to John Prowse who died in 1688, as well as several of his children. | |||
| St Paul's | A !I | c. 1395 | Kewstoke 51°21′56″N 2°57′25″W / 51.3655°N 2.957°W / 51.3655; -2.957 (Church of St Paul, Kewstoke) |
The church dates from the 12th century. The tower is in two stages, with rendered, diagonal buttresses with setbacks which rise through the parapet as corner pinnacles. A polygonal stair turret at the south east corner rises to a pyramidal cap. The first stage has two, 2-light perpendicular west windows under a plain drip mould, and a similar but smaller window with carved stops to the south. The second stage has one 2-light perpendicular window under a drip mould with carved stops on each side; all are louvres except the west which is blank. A quatrefoil pierced parapet has gargoyles at the corner. |
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