Church of St Mary, East Brent
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The Church of St Mary in East Brent
, Somerset
, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The church contains a 15th century eagle lectern and pulpit from 1634.
The building was restored
in the 19th century with a chancel
by William Butterfield
.
Charles Fane de Salis
was the vicar in the late 19th century, before becoming Suffragan Bishop of Taunton
.
East Brent, Somerset
East Brent is a village and civil parish, located on the eastern edge of a hill that dominates the surrounding level countryside—Brent Knoll—close to the M5 motorway, west of Axbridge, in the Sedgemoor district of the county of Somerset, in the south-west of England...
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The church contains a 15th century eagle lectern and pulpit from 1634.
The building was restored
Victorian restoration
Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria...
in the 19th century with a chancel
Chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building...
by William Butterfield
William Butterfield
William Butterfield was a Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement . He is noted for his use of polychromy-Biography:...
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Charles Fane de Salis
Charles Fane de Salis
Charles Fane de Salis , MA, DD , was Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930.-Biography:Born in Fringford, Oxfordshire on 18th or 9 March 1860 into an occasionally clerical family, he was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford. Ordained in 1883 he was Curate at St...
was the vicar in the late 19th century, before becoming Suffragan Bishop of Taunton
Bishop of Taunton
The Bishop of Taunton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 and takes its name after Taunton, the county town of Somerset.The...
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