Church of St Mary the Virgin, Norton Sub Hamdon
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The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Norton Sub Hamdon
, Somerset
, England has 13th century origins but was rebuilt around 1510. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
restoration
was undertaken by Henry Wilson in 1894 and again in 1904.
The five-stage tower, dating from around 1485, which rises 98.5 feet (30 m) was damaged by lightning and fire on 29 July 1894, but restored within a year preserving the original design. It has a double plinth, offset corner buttress
es, dividing strings, battlemented parapet
with pairs of corner pinnacle
s extended from buttresses, and central paired pinnacles corbelled off gargoyle
s.
The dovecote in the churchyard dates from the 17th century, and was associated with a manor house which was demolished around 1850.
Norton Sub Hamdon
Norton sub Hamdon is a village in the South Somerset district of the English county of Somerset, situated five miles west of Yeovil. The village has a population of 694....
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England has 13th century origins but was rebuilt around 1510. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
restoration
Victorian restoration
Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria...
was undertaken by Henry Wilson in 1894 and again in 1904.
The five-stage tower, dating from around 1485, which rises 98.5 feet (30 m) was damaged by lightning and fire on 29 July 1894, but restored within a year preserving the original design. It has a double plinth, offset corner buttress
Buttress
A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall...
es, dividing strings, battlemented parapet
Parapet
A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a...
with pairs of corner pinnacle
Pinnacle
A pinnacle is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire...
s extended from buttresses, and central paired pinnacles corbelled off gargoyle
Gargoyle
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between...
s.
The dovecote in the churchyard dates from the 17th century, and was associated with a manor house which was demolished around 1850.