St Augustine's Church, West Monkton

Church of St Augustine
Stone building with square tower, partially obscured by trees.
Location within Somerset
General information
Town or city West Monkton
Country England
Coordinates 51°03′03″N 3°03′10″W / 51.0507°N 3.0528°W / 51.0507; -3.0528

The Church of St Augustine in West Monkton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.[1]

The parish church has an 88 feet (26.8 m) tower, of four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example. Nikolaus Pevsner proposes that St Augustine's tower is older than the surrounding church towers, with a tower arch that may date to 1300 as part of a previous church building.[2]

The churchyard includes a stocks and whipping post under a canopy.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Church of St Augustine". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  2. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09644-5.
  3. ↑ "Stocks and whipping post under canopy". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
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