Church of All Saints, Wrington

The Church of All Saints in Wrington, Somerset, England, has 13th-century foundations, and was remodelled with the addition of a west tower around 1450.  It is a Grade I listed building. 

History
Wickham dates the church to the period from 1420 to 1450, and Freeman described it as "one of the "highest achievements of architectural genius".   The tower was completed around 1449. 

The church was restored in 1859 with further restoration to the four-stage  tower in 1948.  The tower has set-back buttresses which develop into crocketted pinnacles at the top stage.  The top displays moulded string courses and a trefoil pierced triangular parapet with gargoyles and corner pinnacles.  The belfry stair is in the south-east turret. 

The interior includes stone busts to John Locke and Hannah More dating from the early 19th century on either side of the door.  The chancel has Gothic reredos by Charles Barry dating from 1832.  The rood screen is from the 16th century. 

The churchyard contains the war grave of a Royal Navy seaman of World War II and the grave of Harry Mengden Scarth.  Scarth was a noted expert on Roman Britain and the rector of this church from 1871 to his death in Tangiers in 1890. 

See also

 List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset
 List of towers in Somerset
 List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells

References

External links
 All Saints Church

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Category:13th-century church buildings in England
Category:13th-century churches in the United Kingdom
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Wrington, Church of All Saints