Church of St Michael, Shepton Beauchamp

The Church of St Michael in Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset, England is built of local hamstone, and has 13th-century origins, although it has been extensively changed since then, with major renovation in 1865 by George Edmund Street.

[1] The building is of lias and Ham stone and is made up of a chancel with a north chapel and a vestry, a nave and tall three-stage west tower,[2] dating from 1477,[3] which was largely rebuilt in the 16th century.

[2] It has set-back buttresses ascending to the shafts of former pinnacles, set off with an embattled parapet and gargoyles.

There are two-light traceried bell-chamber windows with stone grilles, continuing as blank openings on the ringing chamber below.

There are clocks with Roman numerals to the west and south faces and a higher polygonal stair-turret to the north corner.