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Church of St Matthew, Wookey

The Church of St Matthew in Wookey, Somerset, England, dates from the twelfth century and is a Grade I listed building. The church was granted to the dean of Wells by Bishop Robert, rebuilt by Bishop Reginald and assigned to the sub dean of the cathedral in 1209. The south chancel is thought to have been built to house the memorial to Thomas Clerke in 1556. The tower dates from the 15th century it held five bells until 1949 when a sixth was added. In 1906 the tower was struck by lightning. A major restoration in the 19th century included a new roof but preserved the 15th century beams. Beside the church stands the 19th-century Mellifont Abbey, which is named after the abbey of the same name in Ireland. The parish is part of the benefice of Coxley with Godney, Henton and Wookey within the Shepton Mallet deanery. Monuments In the tower, behind the organ, there is a monument to Sir Jacob Wolff, 1st Baronet who was also a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. He and his wife resided in Mellifont Abbey (now a care home) next to the church. See also Grade I listed buildings in Mendip List of Somerset towers List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References External links
St Michael's Church, Brent Knoll

The Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll, Somerset, England dates from the 11th century but has undergone several extensions and renovations since then. It has been designated as a grade I listed building. There is a Norman doorway however the rest of the church dates from around 1290. The north aisle was built in the late 15th century. The three-stage tower, which has been dated to around 1397, contains a bell dating from 1777 and made by William Bilbie of the Bilbie family. The church is best known for its unusual carvings on some of its pew ends and in particular the three that make up an allegorical cartoon thought to depict an avaricious Abbot of Glastonbury in the guise of a fox. The pulpit is from the 17th century. Architecture The Parish Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll had its origins in the eleventh century, with further construction work taking place in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with a restoration in the nineteenth century. It is built of coursed and squared rubble stone, with lead sheeting on the roofs apart from the chancel roof, which is slated. There are cruciform finials on the gable ends. The church is built mostly in the Perpendicular style, the plan being the nave, the chancel, the north aisle, the fourteenth-century south porch and the south transept, now used as a vestry. The fourteenth-century tower is at the west end and has three stages with set-back buttresses. It is topped by a parapet with pinnacles, and gargoyles to shed the water. The Norman doorway in the south porch has chevron decorations. The fifteenth-century nave has a wagon roof, and fittings inside the church include an eleventh-century font, a pulpit dated 1637, a Jacobean coffin-stool and chair, and a medieval parish chest. The interior of the church is particularly noted for the bench ends of the pews which are elaborately carved and date to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The church is used as the venue for a series of musical and arts events each summer. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References External links Media related to St Michael, Brent Knoll at Wikimedia Commons
St Michael's Church, Buckland Dinham

The Church of St Michael in Buckland Dinham, Somerset, England, has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church has a nave, chancel, south chapel and south porch which date from around 1200. The north chapel was added in 1325, and a further chapel to the north of the chancel and the west tower being added in 1480. It underwent restoration in the late 19th century. The tower contains six bells which were not rung between the 1950s and 1990s when a restoration project was undertaken including the addition of a bell from St Paul's Church, Bristol. The Anglican parish is part of the Mells with Buckland Dinham, Elm, Whatley and Chantry benefice within the archdeaconry of Wells. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Mendip List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Michael's Church, Clapton in Gordano

The Church of St Michael in Clapton in Gordano, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was vested in the Trust on 1 June 1995. St Michael's closed in 1995 but due to its architectural interest was adopted by the Trust, however occasional services are still held throughout the year. The 12th-century tympanum is the oldest visible part of the church to have survived, however the majority of the building is from the 13th century. Inside are reredos and benches, a 14th-century font and a late 17th-century monument. The 13th-century oak screen in the church originally divided the Great Hall and the Buttery in the adjacent Court House. The first record of the church is an agreement dated 1226 between William, son of Arthur de Clopton and Richard of Keynsham Abbey. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset List of towers in Somerset List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Michael's Church, Creech St Michael

The Church of St Michael, which stands next to the River Tone in Creech St Michael, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church came into the ownership of Montacute Priory in 1362. The musicians gallery was built in 1826 and was used until the installation of the Holdich organ in 1985. The organ had previously been in Rockwell Green Baptist Church since about 1860. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Michael's Church, Dundry

The parish church of St Michael the Archangel in Dundry, Somerset, England has a tower which was built in 1484, with the rest dated 1861. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. History The four-stage tower was erected, around 1484, as a landmark and is visible from many parts of Avon. The rest of the church was built in 1861 by G.B. Gabriel, replacing the previous medieval building. The church became part of a joint benefice with the Church of St Andrew, Chew Magna in 1977 and in 2000 were joined by Holy Trinity Church, Norton Malreward. In 2015 the church was closed because of safety concerns due to falling plaster from the ceiling. Repairs to the roof were estimated to cost £225,000. Following a fundraising campaign, which included grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and others, the church was able to re-open in September 2018 after extensive renovations. Churchyard Outside the church is a 5 feet (1.5 m) cube of dressed stone, from Dundry Main Road South Quarry. It known as the dole table, which was used to give alms to the poor. There is also a 3 metres (9.8 ft) high churchyard cross on an octagonal base. The head of the cross was installed in the 19th century to the same design as one which had previously occupied the site. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument. Chest tombs in the churchyard include those to the Dowling family which is thought to date from the mid 18th century, and one of the same age to the Holbrook family. Architecture The four-stage tower is 97 feet (30 m) high and is a prominent feature in its hill-top position with its tower visible for many miles around. It is supported by buttresses and is topped by four corner turrets with a polygonal north east stair turret. The earliest of the six bells in the tower was made in 1642. The church consists of a nave, chancel, and chapel, with north and south aisles all surmounted by slate roofs. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Michael's Church, Milverton

The Church of St Michael in Milverton, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century, on the site of an even earlier chapel, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church is built of red sandstone with Hamstone dressings. The carved benches date from the mid 16th century. In 1850 St Michael's was extended and repaired by Exeter-based architect John Hayward. Architecture The parish Church of St Michael in Milverton was designated as a Grade I listed building on 25 January 1956. Some of the original thirteenth-century structure remains at the base of the tower but the building dates mostly from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It was restored between 1849 and 1850. It is constructed of red sandstone rubble stone with Hamstone dressings, and slate roofs. The plan consists of a four-bay nave, four-bay north and south aisles, each extending one bay further east than the nave, a south, fourteenth-century porch and a west tower. The tower is tall and set at an oblique angle to the rest of the building. It is built in three stages and has crenellations, pinnacles at the top corners and diagonal buttresses. The north wall of the tower was at one time used for playing the racquet game fives. The north wall of the church has stepped buttresses between the windows. The interior of the church is rendered and has octagonal piers supporting asymmetric, double-chamfered arches. There are wagon roofs, galleries in both the north and south aisles, and a circular Norman font. The bench ends of the pews are elaborately carved and date to the early sixteenth century. The early twentieth-century screen incorporates some pieces of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century carvings. The Anglican parish is part of the benefice of Milverton with Halse, Fitzhead, and Ash Priors within the archdeaconry of Taunton. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Michael, North Cadbury

The Church of St Michael in North Cadbury, Somerset, England, dates from 1417, although the tower was built a few years earlier. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. In 1423 Lord and Lady de Botreaux were granted a royal licence to form a college of seven chaplains. As a result, the nave and chancel were rebuilt although the earlier three-stage tower was left intact. Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon granted the patronage of the church to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, leading to a dispute between the college and the owner of the manor of North Cadbury that became famous in the history of mortgage law. From the 17th century until 1979 the church remained under the patronage of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and every rector from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th century was a former fellow of the college. The church includes elaborately carved bench ends dating from the 1530s. The decoration includes not just religious imagery but also birds and animals along with local people at work. During the 1980s the interior fittings and decoration of the church were damaged beyond repair. The local sculptor John Robinson designed modern figures to replace them. Some controversy arose about the figures and they were eventually placed on the wall of the adjacent North Cadbury Court which overlooks the churchyard. The parish is part of the Camelot Parishes benefice within the Bruton and Cary deanery. Burials William de Botreaux, 3rd Baron Botreaux See also Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset List of Somerset towers List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References Further reading Proceedings of Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, Vol.36, pp. 54 et seq., North Cadbury
St Michael's Church, Othery

The Church of St Michael in Othery, Somerset, England dates back to the 12th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. It is on the Heritage at Risk Register due to the state of the high level stonework on the tower. Othery was a chapelry of Sowy parish with its own chaplain from 1203, but the church of St Michael was dedicated before that time. In 1515, when Sowy was divided, Othery became a separate parish with its own parish church and vicar. The church, perpendicular in style, was remodelled in the 15th century, and partly rebuilt after 1844. Its typical Somerset tower was restored in 1849 and in 1853, when pinnacles and niches were built; sculptures of heads and angels were added in the following years. There are five bells in the tower; the oldest dates to the 1650s and was made by Robert Austen. The other bells date from between 1692 and 1815. Roundels of medieval glass, originally from Glastonbury Abbey and depicting the heads of three doctors of the church, have been preserved. Stained glass by Hardman, Bell, and Holland of Warwick was installed in the 1850s in the chancel, vestry, and north transept. The church houses a memorial to the three Chard brothers, who included Colonel John Chard, V.C. (d. 1897), who led the defence of Rorke's Drift, South Africa, and whose father lived at Pathe. The church registers go back to 1560, but the oldest register appears to be a rather poor late 17th-century copy of the original, "crudely arranged in alphabetical order of Christian names and with a gap from K–Q." The Othery Cope, found under the mediaeval pulpit at the time of the Victorian renovations, is an extremely rare 16th-century ecclesiastical robe, restored and now housed at the Glastonbury Abbey Museum. Othery church is one of the churches dedicated to St Michael that falls on a ley line proposed by John Michell. Other connected St Michaels on the ley line include churches built at Burrow Mump and Glastonbury Tor. The first Vicar of Othery Parish was John Colmer (1515–1522). See also List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Michael, Princetown

The Anglican Church of St Michael (sometimes known as St Michael and All Angels) in Princetown, Devon, England was built between 1810 and 1814. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The granite church stands near the middle of Dartmoor, 436 metres (1,430 ft) above sea level in an exposed location close to Dartmoor Prison. Permission for the construction of the church was given 1812 by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty. The church was designed by the architect Daniel Alexander and built by prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars and finished by those captured during the American war who were held in the prison, and is the only church in England to have been built by prisoners of war. The three stage west tower is surmounted by pinnacles. Prisoners of war were held in the prison until 1816 and then the church closed. It was reopened and reconsecrated in 1831. In 1868 the chancel was altered and between 1898 and 1901 further alterations and expansion were undertaken under the direction of Edmund Sedding. In 1915 the tower was restored. The east window has stained glass by Mayer of Munich, which was installed in 1910 in memory of the American prisoners who helped to build the church. The graves of many prisoners are in the churchyard. The window was partially funded by a donation of £250, in 1908, from the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 as part of their work commemorating those who died in the War of 1812. The church was declared redundant on 1 November 1995, and was vested in the Trust on 8 January 2001. It is still consecrated and it is used occasionally for services. See also List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England References
St Michael's Church, Raddington

The Church of St Michael at Raddington in the parish of Chipstable, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th and 14th centuries and has been designated as a grade I listed building. The 13th-century tower was restored in 1695 and rendered in the 20th century. Two of the four bells which hung in the tower until around 1971 were cast in the 1370s. The windows date from the 14th or 15th century, as do the bells, which were renovated and re-hung in 1986. Under the plaster on the walls of the nave are wall paintings. The chancel screen dates from the 14th century. The font is of a 13th-century Purbeck type. The carved bosses in the roof include a Green Man. The parish is part of the benefice of Wiveliscombe and the Hills within the deanery of Tone. See also Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane List of Somerset towers References
Church of St Michael, Shepton Beauchamp

The Church of St Michael in Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset, England is built of local hamstone, and has 13th-century origins, although it has been extensively changed since then, with major renovation in 1865 by George Edmund Street. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The building is of lias and Ham stone and is made up of a chancel with a north chapel and a vestry, a nave and tall three-stage west tower, dating from 1477, which was largely rebuilt in the 16th century. It has set-back buttresses ascending to the shafts of former pinnacles, set off with an embattled parapet and gargoyles. There are two-light traceried bell-chamber windows with stone grilles, continuing as blank openings on the ringing chamber below. There are clocks with Roman numerals to the west and south faces and a higher polygonal stair-turret to the north corner. The tower holds eight bells several of which date back to 1738 and were made by the Bilbie family. The former rectory, now called Beauchamp Manor, was built in 1874 for the rector V.S.S. Coles to house his curates and visitors. The parish is part of the Winsmoor benefice within the Crewkerne and Ilminster deanery. See also Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset List of Somerset towers List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Michael, Tilehurst

St. Michael's Church, Tilehurst, is the parish church of Tilehurst in the English county of Berkshire. It is a parish of the Church of England in the Diocese of Oxford. The church dates from the 12th century, although the oldest part of the current building is the south aisle, built round about 1300, now dedicated as the Lady Chapel. In the early 17th century, this aisle gained the addition of one of the most spectacular renaissance church monuments in the county. Dutch merchant and lord of the manor, Sir Peter Vanlore, lies with wife in heraldic splendour, accompanied by nine children. The building was judged to need repair work by the 19th century, and was much restored in 1855 to designs by G. E. Street. This work included building the north aisle and adding a spire to the tower, which dates from the 1730s. The church was again altered in 1955, and an extension was completed in 1993, adding various rooms and the other facilities that are needed by a busy parish church. References External links Official website Royal Berkshire History: Tilehurst Church
St Michael's Church, Stawley

The Church of St Michael in Stawley, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The current church stands on the site of an earlier Norman church from which some herringbone pattern walling survives in the nave. Much of the current church was built in early 16th century, paid for by local farmer and trader Henry Howe, who is remembered by a scroll over the door. Additional funding, possibly by the family of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, paid for the tower which displays their coat of arms with three swords. The church register dates from 1528. Despite some minor Victorian restoration in 1873 the church fabric is largely as it would have been in medieval times. In 2007 a sixth bell, which had previously been at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Maperton, was added to the existing peel in the three-stage west tower. The Anglican parish which was once part of the benefice of Wellington and district within the archdeadconry of Taunton, is now part of the newley formed benefice of West Tone. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Michael & All Angels, Greinton

The Church of St Michael & All Angels in Greinton, Somerset, England has parts which date to the 12th century, with evidence that it may have been built on a pre-Christian site. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church was refurbished in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the church seems to have been led by a cast of colorful clergy, dating at least to 1259 when Boniface de Foliano was rector. In 1397 the rector was accused of attacking the vicar of Pawlett during mass and extorting money and livestock from him . . . John Hyne, rector 1584–1624, was in prison in 1590, leaving the church unserved. . . In the 1600s Hyne was presented for minor infringements such as allowing a girl of 12 to be a godmother. He also refused a couple communion and accused the wardens of buying watered wine. The tower, which dates from the 15th century, has a ring of six bells, including a medieval Bristol bell, bells dated 1586,1707, 1788, and two dated 1899. Major repairs and renovations were carried out in the Victorian era, including the addition of stained glass and a north porch, and the conversion of the south porch to a vestry. Incomplete records in the church register go back to 1655, with complete records from 1777. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Puriton

The Church of St Michael and All Angels in Puriton, Somerset, England was constructed from local Blue Lias stone. It has an early 13th-century tower, with the remainder of the building dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The building is on the site of a previous church, built in the 11th century, which was given by Robert de Chandos to Goldcliff Priory in South Wales in 1113. The building is made up of a chancel, which was rebuilt in 1489 and again between 1859 and 1874, and a nave, which was rebuilt in the 15th century, with a north aisle and south porch, all built from local Blue Lias. The west tower has a pyramid roof and holds bells including one from the medieval Bristol foundry and three of 1725 by Abraham Rudhall. The parish is part of the Link benefice of Puriton and Pawlett, Cossington, Bawdrip and Woolavington within the Sedgemoor deanery. Church Commissioners Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 dated 5.8.2021 See also Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor List of Somerset towers List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References