The Church of All Saints in Sutton Bingham in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Closworth Closworth is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, south of Yeovil in the South Somerset district, on the border with Dorset. The village has a population of 220. The parish includes the villages of Pendomer and Sutton Bingham, the lo ...

Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_ ...

, England, dates from the 12th and 13th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I

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Medieval wall painting All Saints Church - geograph

The interior includes a series of 14th century wall paintings, including, in the Chancel, the

Coronation of the Virgin The Coronation of the Virgin or Coronation of Mary is a subject in Christian art, especially popular in Italy in the 13th to 15th centuries, but continuing in popularity until the 18th century and beyond. Christ, sometimes accompanied by God th ...

, and several bishops and saints. On the north wall of the

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 ...

is a portrayal of the

Death of the Virgin The Death of the Virgin Mary is a common subject in Western Christian art, the equivalent of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Eastern Orthodox art. This depiction became less common as the doctrine of the Assumption gained support in the Roman ...

(pictured below right). The murals were whitewashed during the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

and remained obscured until they were rediscovered in the 1860s. The small belfry contains two bells, one dates from around 1250 and the other is from 1685. The church is close to the shore of

Sutton Bingham Reservoir Sutton Bingham Reservoir is a reservoir near the village of Sutton Bingham in the civil parish of Closworth, Somerset, England. The reservoir was built in the 1950s to supply water to Yeovil. The remains of Sutton Mill are under the water, and c ...

Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with *St Mary's Church, East Chinnock *

St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker St Michael and All Angels’ Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in East Coker, Somerset. History The church dates from the late 12th century, but much of the surviving fabric is 15th century. In the 14th centu ...

*St Mary's Church, Hardington Mandeville *St Roch's Church, Pendomer *All Saints' Church, Closworth *

St Martin of Tours' Church, West Coker St Martin of Tours' Church, West Coker is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in West Coker, Somerset. History The church dates from the 13th century. It was rebuilt between 1863 and 1864 under the supervision of the archi ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton Bingham, Church of All Saints 13th-century church buildings in England Church of England church buildings in South Somerset Grade I listed churches in Somerset Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset

Parish status

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