Church of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Stowey

The Anglican Parish Church of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary at Stowey within the English county of Somerset dates from the 13th century.

[1] There may have been a wooden church on the site at the time of the Domesday book, although the first written record from the Bath cartulary is of 1235.

The three-stage tower, which was added in the 14th or early 15th century, is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a stair turret in the northeast corner.

The church was altered in the 17th century, and in the 19th it underwent a Victorian restoration that included replacement of part of the roof and removal of the double-decker pulpit and a gallery.

[6] There are also wall monuments from the mid-18th century by Thomas Paty and other sculptors, commemorating the Jones and Sandford families.

The Last Judgement by Henry Strachey above the chancel arch