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Updated: May 16, 2025
Cleeve, Old, village half way between Washford Station and Blue Anchor, 5 m. from Minehead. From the Minehead road the church tower will be seen picturesquely protruding above the trees. The village has nothing to recommend it but its rural seclusion. The church has a fair Perp. W. tower, in which the usual string course is replaced by a band of quatrefoils.
A sprig of hazel, with nuts, thrown all around the quatrefoils with a squirrel in centre, apparently attached to the tree only by its enormous tail, richly furrowed into hair, and nobly sweeping. Four hares fastened together by the ears, galloping in a circle.
The base of the screen is plain; above this is a row of thirteen panelled quatrefoils on each side of the doorway each containing a plain shield, over these a string course, then two rows of canopied niches, the upper row consisting of twelve, the lower, owing to the doorway occupying the central space, of only ten.
The piano nobile has two ogee-headed windows with geometric tracery, flat decorated archivolt, and slender shafts on the outer and inner surface of the jamb, and a three-light window in the centre, made up to a square head with quatrefoils in the fashion of the Ca d'Oro at Venice.
It consists of a man in the middle fighting with a dragon, with sword and shield, and at the sides in the quatrefoils Delilah cutting the hair of Samson, and Samson and the lion; a man and woman fighting.
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