The Anglican Church of St Mary in
Yarlington
Yarlington is a village and civil parish, near the source of the River Cam, in the English county of Somerset.
Administratively, Yarlington shares a parish council with nearby North Cadbury and forms part of the district of South Somerset.
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Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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, England was built in the 11th century. It is a Grade II*
listed building
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.
History
The church was built in the 11th century, on the site of a previous church which had been under the control of
Montacute Priory
Montacute Priory was a Cluniac priory of the Benedictine order in Montacute, Somerset, England.
History
It was founded between 1078 and 1102 by William, Count of Mortain, in face of a threat that if he did not do so, the King would take the land ...
.
Most of the building, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1878.
The design of the rebuilt church was influenced by the
Cambridge Camden Society. The tower was repointed and
pinnacle
A pinnacle is an architectural element 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. It was mainly ...
s and
merlons replaced by Minerva Conservation.
The parish is part of the Camelot Parishes
benefice
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within the
Diocese of Bath and Wells.
Architecture
The stone building has
Doulting or
hamstone dressings and clay tiled roofs. It consists of a three-
bay
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nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
and two-bay
chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ove ...
with an
aisle
An aisle is, in general, a space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Aisles with seating on both sides can be seen in airplanes, certain types of buildings, such as churches, cathedrals, synagogues, meeting halls, parl ...
on the north and porch on the south side. The two-stage square tower remains from the original building.
Inside the church the fittings are from the 19th century with the exception of the octagonal
font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph. A typeface consists of a range of such fonts that shared an overall design.
In mod ...
which dates from the 15th.
See also
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Hunky punks
References
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Grade II* listed buildings in South Somerset
Grade II* listed churches in Somerset