St Mary, Limington
St Mary, Limington
St Mary’s is a Grade I parish church on Church Street, Limington, Somerset, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
- Location
- Limington, Somerset
- Country
- England
- County
- Somerset
- City / town
- Limington
- Address
- Church Street, Limington, Somerset, BA22 8EQ
- Postcode
- BA22 8EQ
- Built
- Late C14 with Norman fragments; north chapel 1328; C15 chancel restored in the C19
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Bath and Wells
- Parish
- Limington
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Local stone, cut, squared and random coursed, with Ham stone dressings; plain clay-tile roofs
- Grid reference
- ST 541 221
- Opening hours
- Open during daylight hours most everyday of the week.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a late-fourteenth-century church with earlier fragments: a Norman north door and footings to nave and tower, a thirteenth-century south porch, a fine north chapel of 1328, and a fifteenth-century chancel restored in the nineteenth century. The fabric is local stone, mostly cut, squared and random coursed, with Ham stone dressings and plain clay-tile roofs with coped gables. The three-stage west tower has a late-fifteenth-century west window, pierced stone baffles, and gargoyles at the parapet. The south porch has stone seats and a thirteenth-century pointed doorway. Interior fittings include a seventeenth-century pulpit and altar table, a sixteenth-century octagonal font, and medieval effigies, among them Sir Richard Gyvernay (d. 1329), who built the chantry chapel. Thomas Wolsey was vicar of Limington before his rise under Henry VIII.