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In the S. porch note the doors which once led to the parvise or gallery above, and the holy-water stoup. The E. window is Dec., with the interior arch foliated. Weston, a parish forming a suburb of Bath. Of its church the only old portion is the tower, with angular buttresses finishing in pinnacles. The nave was rebuilt in 1832. Weston Bampfylde, a parish 1 m. S. of Sparkford.
The Perp. font is unusual, being supported on pillars which have niches containing figures. In the parish is a mineral spring with properties resembling those of Harrogate waters. Camel, West, a village 2 m. S.W. of Sparkford Station, has a church with many features of interest.
Maperton is a pleasant village 3-1/2 m. E. from Sparkford. Of the church, which is rather screened from view by an adjoining mansion, the only old portion is the tower. A few corbels of an earlier church and a piece of interlaced carving are preserved in the S. porch. The piscina deserves notice; it is said to be Norman.
Within are a few old bench-ends, a dated pulpit and altar , and a somewhat incongruous reredos, which is said to have been originally a screen. In the wall of porch is a recess which might be either a niche or a stoup. Some of their balls are said to have been found in the roof during repairs. A good view of the surrounding country is obtained from the road to Langport. Sparkford, a village 7 m.
N. of Martock, with a modern church built on the site of an old chapelry or chantry. Lopen, a parish 4 m. N.W. of Crewkerne, is noteworthy as being the place where Cardinal Wolsey, when holding the cure of Limington, is said to have been put in the stocks by Sir Amyas Poulett. Lovington, a parish 3 m. N. of Sparkford.
The church, rebuilt 1860, is without interest, except for a very curious font of uncertain date, standing on a modern pedestal. Barrow, South, is a village 1 m. N. from Sparkford. The church, a small aisleless building, contains ancient bench ends; piscina and aumbry in sanctuary; brass to R. Morris on floor of nave. A fragment of Norman work will be noticed over the N. door.
Cadbury, South (2-1/4 m. E. of Sparkford), is a village on the N.E. side of Cadbury Camp, with a church dedicated to St Thomas
N. from Yeovil, with a station on the G.W.R. line to Weymouth. This is the nearest station for Cadbury Camp. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1824, in the sham Gothic of the day. It is of interest only to the bell-hunter. It possesses a pre-Reformation bell with an inscription, Caterina, ora pro nobisi. Sparkford Hall stands in a park bordering the Ilchester road.
The aisles are Perp., and the one on the S. curiously encloses the clerestory. There is a Perp. W. tower of weak design and poor workmanship, opening into the nave by a panelled arch. Compton Pauncefote, a village 2-1/2 m. from Sparkford. It lies in pretty country, and has a church to which the possession of a slender spire adds picturesqueness. Internally there is little that calls for remark.
The church is an eccentric octagonal structure built in 1823. E. of Sparkford. The church, which formerly belonged to Glastonbury Abbey, is small and plain, but possesses a Norm. S. doorway and a Norm. font. There are also the remains of a stoup in the S. porch and of a piscina in the S. wall. Blagdon, a village on the N. slope of the Mendips, 12 m. S.W. from Bristol.
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