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STREET Holy Trinity. Before 1830

The village of Street is situated at the junction of the roads from Glastonbury, Somerton and Bridgwater and is distant a mile and a half from Glastonbury. The church is built of stone common in the neighbourhood, of a bluish-grey colour. It is not a large structure but stands within a burying-ground of very large extent. It consists only of a nave and chancel without aisles and a tower at the west end. The tower is of Rectilinear work, but of plain workmanship without any battlements and has belfry windows with square heads and of two lights. It contains six bells and is separated from the church by a pointed arch springing from octagonal shafts.

The south porch is large, but quite plain. On the north side of the nave is a curious doorway, which, if genuine, appears to be of very early date being very high and extremely narrow, the arch just pointed and springing from rude imposts. The windows of the nave are Rectilinear with good tracery, but having no dripstones.

The chancel opens to the nave by a pointed arch and has on each side 2 Curvilinear windows of 3 lights. In these are scraps of painted glass. On the south side of the altar are 2 good stone stalls with open canopies ornamented with crockets of a very small size and with feathering. There is also a piscine with a canopy of the same and flanked by elegant small buttresses and resting upon a bracket charged with the ballflower ornament peculiar to the Curvilinear style. The church is kept neat. The pulpit is an ordinary one but rests on a stone bracket. The font is octagonal without ornament.

( A north aisle was added to the nave of Street church about 1830 with Perpendicular windows and a range of ungraceful flat arches. At a later period the church was also very considerably improved. The nave received a new open roof and the original fine timber roof of the chancel, hidden by a flat ceiling, was opened and restored The whole church fitted up with open benches (pues being all abolished), the sedile restored and the east window and 2 others in the church filled with fine stained glass, all the gifts of individuals.)

Curvilinear: Early 14'" century Decorated style, using tracery of a flowing pattern, Feathering(cusping): Connecting between arcs in Gothic tracery and ornament, often richly carved.

Rectilinear: alternative name for Perpendicular i.e. late \^& 15th centuries. Illustrations: S.E view of Street church- J. Buckler 1834

Street church, in the chancel, W.W.Wheatley 1845. (sedilia)

Holy Trinity Church, Street, sketched by Revd. John Skinner 29/6/1829, showing northern door.


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