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On one face is the effigy of a mitred abbot. The vaulted roof is supported by stone ribs, and egress for the steam is cunningly contrived in the windows. Its date is 1435-40. Another surviving remnant of monastic property will be found in Bere Lane at the top of Chilk-wall Street. This is a very fine cruciform barn similar to those at Doulting and Pilton, but rather richer in detail.
Pilton : Upper devonian. Ilfracombe : Middle devonian. Linton : Lower devonian. Ludlow : Upper silurian. Wenlock : Middle silurian. Llandeilo : Lower silurian. Potsdam : Upper cambrian. Longmynd : Lower cambrian. Labrador : Upper laurentian. Ottawa : Lower laurentian.
King Ina's Palace is the name of an interesting house on the Martock road. Near the church there are one or two other ancient houses which invite notice. Pill, a populous village, 6 m. N.W. of Bristol, standing on a muddy creek of the Avon. A sufficient impression of the place may be obtained from the station platform. The church is modern. Pilton, 1-1/2 m.
It would seem that there were special wardens here for ale drawing. Archaeologia, xxxvi, 235. Cf. J.H. Matthews, History of St. Ives , 144, et passim. Bishop Hobhouse, Churchwdn's Acc'ts of Croscombe, Pilton, etc., Somerset Rec. See the precedents given for the Western Circuit in Prynne, Canterburies' Doome, 152. Cf. also, ibid., 128 ff.
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