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somerset churches


Folder: english churches by county
somerset and bristol churches and monastic architecture- and yes, I am aware that bristol is not in somerset, but has always been a separate entity

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 137
built 1400, the north chapel roof retains clouds and putti from a wider decorative scheme of paradise, added c.1660 around the restoration tomb.

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 135
built 1400, the north chapel roof retains clouds and putti from a wider decorative scheme of paradise, added c.1660 around the restoration tomb

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 135
built 1400, the north chapel roof retains clouds and putti from a wider decorative scheme of paradise, added c.1660 around the restoration tomb

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 128
heraldic gates of c.1660 to the north chapel, with the wheatsheaf and sickle crests of hungerford and lion and anchor of hallyday

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 145
heraldic wall paintings and wrought iron gates were added to the north chapel c.1660 when it recieved a restoration makeover to take the hungerford/hallyday tomb

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 132
huge wall painting of george and the dragon on the east chapel wall, with a kneeling donor in a tabard almost gone from the south wall. c.1440. the overall red colour is a result of an earlier failed wax treatment.

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 123
huge wall painting of george and the dragon on the east chapel wall, with a kneeling donor in a tabard almost gone from the south wall. c.1440. the overall red colour is a result of an earlier failed wax treatment.

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 125
painted tomb chest of sir walter hungerford IV, +1596 and his son edward +1585

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 152
c15 flemish st.sebastian roundel in the west window

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 195
english c18 peckitt glass around one good c15 flemish roundel

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 133
stalls with hungerford heraldry in the chapel, looking early c16

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 133
hungerford arms over the altar, c17

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 100
chapel pulpit cobbled together in 1832 from early c17 woodwork

farleigh hungerford castle,incised slab of c.1500…

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 136
the font seems to be fairly modern, not here in 1800, but here before 1907.

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 115
east end of the castle chapel, built as the parish church in the late c14, given new windows c.1440, and the chapel on the right around 1400, its windows were changed in 1660.

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 130
interior of the chapel of the late c14, with window of c.1440 at the east end. the side windows were blocked in georgian times. there is a north chapel of the c15.

farleigh hungerford castle

08 Apr 2012 114
roof of the west porch of the chapel, built c.1520 with hungerford arms and their sickle badge on the roof bosses.

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