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On three sides are canopied niches, the upper ones supported on cherubs or angels. The arcade of the nave is Trans. or E.E., that of the chancel Perp., the junction being rather clumsily effected. There is no chancel arch. The S. porch has a fine groined roof, with niches and holy-water stoup.
The church is a handsome Perp. building, with a noble W. tower of the Shepton type, decorated with triple windows and a rich parapet. The interior is remarkable for the painful incongruity of the chancel a pseudo-classical structure, built in 1743, to replace the dismantled monastic choir.
The roof has embattled tie-beams, the space above them being filled with Perp. tracery. The E. window is lofty. The chancel has a screen and rood-loft, with fan tracery E. and W.; the staircase is in the S. pier of the arch. At the E. end is a piscina and a sedile, each under an elaborate triple ogee canopy.
Hinton Blewitt, a small and secluded village, 4 m. S.W. from Clutton. The church is Perp., with a fair W. tower. It possesses a stoup and a rather poor piscina. The village, which is on the slope of a hill, commands a pleasant view of the Mendips. Hinton Charterhouse, a small village 6 m. S. of Bath, on the more easterly of the alternative roads from the city to Frome.
In the neighbourhood is a large reservoir in connection with the Bristol water-works. Locking, a parish 3 m. S.E. of Weston-super-Mare, but most easily reached from Worle Station, 1-1/2 m. away. The church was rebuilt in 1863, and its earlier features obliterated, with the exception of the Perp. tower. Long Load, a parish 2 m.
The church was entirely rebuilt in 1839, and a chancel of better type added in 1897. Chillington, a small village 4 m. N.W. from Crewkerne. It has a Perp. church possessing an early font and some well-preserved early Communion plate. Chilthorne Domer, a village 3 m. N.W. of Yeovil, has a small church with some interesting features.
The church, in the main Perp., has been restored, but retains its massive tower, which is singularly plain, with a pinnacled turret in the middle of the S. face. The S. entry has some intricate carving above it, and there are some quaint figures on a stone inserted over the vestry door. The chancel is Dec. Midford, a station on the S. & D. line to Bath.
Its church has been entirely rebuilt , but retains its Perp. font. Stocklinch, a village 2-1/2 m. N.E. of Ilminster. Its small church has no tower. The E. window is Dec.; there is a sun-dial of 1612, and an ancient font. Stogumber, 5 m. S. by E. of Watchet, with a station about a mile away.
Norm. work preserved in it, which consists of a S. door, exceptionally tall and narrow, with banded pillars and a quaint carving of St Michael and the Dragon; a chancel arch, recessed, with curious carvings on the chamfer of the abacus and on the capitals. E.N.E. of Radstock. The church is modern, with the exception of the tower. S.E. of Bath. The church is Perp., with a W. tower.
The church is Perp., with a good central tower. The windows contain some fragments of ancient glass. The shape of the font is curious. N.E. of Somerton. Its church has been rebuilt , and its octagonal tower is crowned with a tall spire. The doorway and font of an earlier Norm. church are still preserved, and in the chancel is an E.E. piscina. The churchyard has the base and shaft of a cross.
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