St Augustine's Church, West Monkton
| Church of St Augustine | |
|---|---|
 | |
  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 |
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]
See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Church of St Augustine". historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09644-5.
- ^ "Stocks and whipping post under canopy". historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. Retrieved 11 February 2009.