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There is another cross in the centre of the village. Opposite the church is an old pre-Reformation building, the basement of which served as an alms-house, and the upper floor as a school. It is now unfortunately quite ruinous. Cucklington is a parish 3 m. E. of Wincanton, standing on a high ridge. The arcade is severely plain, and is perhaps 13th-cent. work. The font is Norm.
A sharp fight took place between his followers and a small body of Stuart cavalry, resulting in the utter rout of the latter. The station next to Wincanton is Cole, within easy reach of the old towns of Castle Cary and Bruton. A public conveyance meets the trains for the latter, a little over a mile away.
The church is an unattractive-looking little building, but of more interest than its appearance suggests. The vault is groined. In the S. porch is a mutilated stoup. Within, note in chancel, image brackets and defaced piscina; rood loft stair and window. The nave roof is original. Bratton Seymour, a village conspicuously perched on a hill 3 m. W. from Wincanton. The church has been rebuilt.
It is an interesting example of domestic architecture, the chapel dating from 1340, the rest of the building from the 15th cent. The chapel has a Dec. window and ruined piscina and stoup. The hall, now divided by a wall, has a fine roof and cornice. An upper room retains a good moulded ceiling, decorated with heraldic blazons. Charlton Musgrove, a small village 1 m. N. of Wincanton.
The interior is of less interest: it contains a small screen. The cross in the churchyard has a modern head, elaborately carved with figures and scenes. Staplegrove, a parish which is virtually a suburb of Taunton. The rest of the fabric has undergone restoration, though it retains a hagioscope and two piscinas. Stavordale, a small hamlet 3-1/2 m. N.E. of Wincanton.
The famous Richard Messiter, an attorney, of Wincanton, came all the way from that place in a chaise as a witness; and John Ward, an attorney, of Marlborough, attended as another witness; so that this chap got out of the scrape at an expense to his father of about fifty pounds.
But the manner in which I was bandied about, by false information, from pillar to post, or at other times driven quite out of my way by the presence of the King's soldiers, may be known by the names of the following towns, to which I was sent in succession, Bath, Frome, Wells, Wincanton, Glastonbury, Shepton, Bradford, Axbridge, Somerton, and Bridgwater.
In a farmhouse near are the remains of Chelvey Court, once the residence of the Tynte family, who have memorials in the church. Chelwood, a small parish 2 m. S.E. of Pensford. Cheriton, North, a pleasant village 3 m. S.W. of Wincanton. It has a restored church, which preserves a pulpit of Charles I.'s time , and a tub font. The screen is, in the main, modern, though part dates from the 15th cent.
The consequence was that, in the little combats of this short campaign, the invaders had on their side the hearty sympathy of all Englishmen. The first of these encounters took place at Wincanton. Mackay's regiment, composed of British soldiers, lay near a body of the King's Irish troops, commanded by their countryman, the gallant Sarsfield.
The tower is ancient but poor. About a mile E. of the village are the ruins of a villa once owned by the notorious Duke of Buckingham. Stoke, South, a parish 2-1/2 m. S. of Bath. The church has a fine Norm. doorway, with carved tympanum and pillars, and zigzag and other mouldings round the arch. Stoke Trister is a small hamlet of mean appearance, 2 m. E. of Wincanton. It has a modern church .
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