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The churchyard commands a good view of Sedgemoor, with the towers of Othery, Middlezoy, and Weston Zoyland rising conspicuously from it. There are some carved bench-ends and old oak seats. Muchelney, 2 m. S.E. of Langport, is a small village rich in antiquities. Like Athelney, it was once a marsh-girt "island " the largest, or muckleey, amongst its peers. At the W. door there is a fine stoup.
The arcade piers are encircled with the "Devonshire" foliage. E. of Hatch Station. Within is a Norm. font. It was attached to the Abbey of Muchelney until the dissolution of the monasteries. The communion plate includes two Elizabethan chalices. The only other building in the town of any interest is the Grammar School, N. of the church.
He became a monk at Reading, and filled a larger part upon a more spacious stage, and yet would have most gladly returned; but the strait cell was shut to him relentlessly and for ever. Andrew, erst sacristan of Muchelney, was another who left the Order for his first love, but his dislike of the life was less cogently put.
Many of the British camps enumerated above have at different times been occupied by the Roman legions. The ancient ecclesiastical buildings of Somerset are very interesting. Some of them, chiefly monastic foundations, are more or less in ruins Glastonbury, Cleeve, Woodspring, Muchelney, Stavordale, Hinton Charterhouse.
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