panelled.  The W., N., and S. sides are decorated with niches containing figures; and the summit is finished with an ornate crown.  The turret (as at Lyng) ascends only half-way up.  There are two porches, the S. having a chamber, or gallery, looking into the church.  The most peculiar features of the building are the slenderness of the piers carrying the chancel arch, and the sacristy below the E. window (the latter peculiarity occurring also at Langport, Kingsbury, Porlock, Ilminster, and formerly at Crewkerne).  Note the piscina at the end of the S. aisle.  In the churchyard there is the octagonal base, carved with quatrefoils, of an ancient cross.

PETHERTON, SOUTH, 3 m.  S.W. of Martock, is a small town, interesting mainly for its noble church, which has a central (rather attenuated) octagonal tower on a square base.  The oldest parts of the building appear to be the basement of the tower, the chancel, the S. porch, and the N. transept, the difference in the masonry between these portions and the rest being instructive.  The tower still retains some lancets of the E.E. period; but the earliest windows in the chancel and N. transept are Dec.  The body of the church is Perp., and the W. window deserves attention.  Note, too, (1) stoup outside N. porch; (2) fragments in S. porch of the same zodiacal signs that appear at Stoke-sub-Hamdon; (3) piscinas (especially that in the chancel); (4) tomb of Sir Giles Daubeny (d. 1445) and one of his wives, with a fine brass (there is also a brass to his second wife on the floor, concealed by matting); (5) 17th-cent. mural tablets in the S. and N. chapels. King Ina’s Palace is the name of an interesting house on the Martock road.  It is said to date from Richard II.’s time (with later alterations), and contains a hall, with minstrel gallery, and a good fireplace.  Near the church there are one or two other ancient houses which invite notice.

Pill, a populous village, 6 m.  N.W. of Bristol, standing on a muddy creek of the Avon.  A sufficient impression of the place may be obtained from the station platform.  The church is modern.

Pilton, 1-1/2 m.  N.W. of West Pennard Station, lies in pretty country.  Its church is spacious, and contains much of interest.  Architecturally it belongs to various periods.  The S. door is Norm., the porch later.  The columns and arches which separate the nave from the aisle are late Norm. or Trans.; the roof was raised at a later date, and a Perp. clerestory was inserted.  The chancel is Perp., with a panelled arch and a clerestory.  Note (1) the fine wooden roof; (2) the screen that encloses what was once a chapel (it has a piscina); (3) the “Easter sepulchre,” under a recess in the N. wall, with a representation of our Lord cut in the stone; (4) the fine brass chandelier (1749); (5) the curious old chest at the base of the tower, which contains the remains of an old 16th cent. cope, which has been converted into an altar frontal; (6) the Jacobean pulpit (1618).  The communion plate includes a paten of about 1500.  Near the church is a noble cruciform barn, once belonging to the abbots of Glastonbury, with the emblems of the Evangelists at the gables.