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Silver Street, WINCANTON, BA9 9AN

The Millers Inn on Silver Street.

Station Road seen from the junction with Church Street with St Peter & St Paul Church in view.

The Church of St Peter and St Paul was almost totally rebuilt 1887-91 by J. D. Sedding, however parts of the tower may be remnants form an earlier church, dating from 1313, on the same site.

The elegant porch was part of the major rebuilding of the late nineteenth century and features the patron saints of the church. St Peter and St Paul hold their respective symbols: the keys of Heaven and the (now missing) martyr's sword. The Latin inscription 'Per Crucem Tuam Libera Nos Domine' is below the Crucifixion. An area just to the right of the porch, beside the tower, is devoid of any embellishment. It is the site of a 1552 plague pit.

As with many churches, the restoration of Charles II is marked by a coat of arms - here over the north door.

Set into the interior wall of the north porch is an old stone workpiece, depicting St Eligius (or Eloi) of sixth century France. He was said to have helped a blacksmith to shoe a recalcitrant horse. The saint, then Bishop of Noyon, removed the horse's leg, nailed the shoe on it and miraculously re-attached the leg to the bemused beast. The scene features this event, but has lost the heads - probably due to the destruction by Protestant iconoclasts after the Reformation. The stone was found in a wall when the church was rebuilt in the eighteenth century under Nathaniel Ireson's supervision. Despite the extensive demolition and rebuilding in 1887-89, it has been retained to the better illustration of this ancient church.

A footapth around the church.

A splendid carved wooden pulpit.

A carved, octagonal, stone font, complete with a small but modern scene at the base.