I think it would be an archive job I fear. But a plaque normally denotes some intervention, roofs leak, towers slump over time...and also bells need rehanging.

Yes the record is c12th, and I'm just relying on a gut feeling from an external photograph (and a plaque) -- as well as knowing that local rebuilds occurring between the "proper" medieval and c19th restoration can get smoothed out. Many thanks.

Many thanks. Also, from the outside photograph, the entire proportion of that tower does look suspiciously c17th. I wonder how much was changed again in c19th restoration -- to re-medievalize.

sorry - pattern book product, not catalogue product.

Oh thank you. Heraldic elements are not likely to be a c19th catalogue product, so we can go back at least a century or more. One suspects the c18th tombs might provide the family. Little as I appreciate the excruciating vanity of heraldic display - it does encourage survivals.

Actually, checking your other posts. That single light c19th East window beside the other plain c20th (?) glass. Presumably there was more c19th glass which was removed. So c19th survivals, from a workshop that enjoyed acanthus pattern.

Has Somerset been catalogued for glass? - I would assume somewhere. Is it ornamental or figurative - mouse saw it more closely - if ornamental, even repurposed domestic glass perhaps....... But the C19th were fond of ornament, and had their pattern books to work by. They are oddly irregular.

Which is very beautiful indeed - an asset to the church, and probably replaced something dull, but I have seen some attractive continental glass from the c19th in small windows - finely drawn italian - which I suspect that right hand one might be.

And run of the mill Victorian is often destroyed, so might be a rarer survival by the C21st, one of them seems to have some nice drawn work.

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Not necessarily, they did not use C19th synthetic colours and also made use of the stone underneath at times. The "bright paint" syndrome has produced some hideous "restoration" bungles. Stained glass - where colour survives, provides a more subtle aesthetic.

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