St Petrock, Timberscombe
St Petrock, Timberscombe
St Petrock’s is a Grade I parish church on Church Street, Timberscombe, Somerset, on Exmoor, mainly of the fifteenth century with a tower of 1708.
- Location
- Timberscombe, Somerset
- Country
- England
- County
- Somerset
- City / town
- Timberscombe
- Address
- Church Street, Timberscombe, Somerset, TA24 7TP
- Postcode
- TA24 7TP
- Built
- C15; tower 1708; chancel restored 1862; remainder restored 1882
- Architect
- Ewan Christian (1862 chancel restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Petrock
- Diocese
- Bath and Wells
- Parish
- Timberscombe
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Slate, ironstone and red sandstone random rubble with Ham stone dressings; Treborough slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SS 955 420
- Opening hours
- Open all day, every day. Locked in the evening unless an event is taking place.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of the fifteenth century, a tower of 1708 with a nineteenth-century roof, a chancel restored in 1862 by E. Christian, the rest of the church restored in 1882, and an early twentieth-century vestry. The fabric is slate, ironstone and red sandstone random rubble with Ham stone dressings and Treborough slate roofs, the nave roof slightly bell-cast. The plan is a three-bay nave, chancel, three-bay south aisle, south-east chapel (now organ chamber), north porch, south-west vestry and two-stage west tower with a pyramid slate roof, pierced crenellations, pinnacles and gargoyles. The Exmoor HER gives National Grid SS 9559 4205 and notes a former dedication to St Michael and an earlier church on the site.
The listing describes a north porch with a wagon roof of moulded ribs and bosses, a late fifteenth-century screen in good condition, a rood-stair projection, and remains of painted decoration of vine leaves and shields. The village site states the church is open by day. Archaeological work has recorded medieval burials south of the church and possible Anglo-Saxon activity on the site.