Runnington, a village 1 m.  N.W. of Wellington.  Its church is a characterless little building at the bottom of a lane.  It retains its rood stairway.

St Catherine, a parish 4 m.  N.E. of Bath.  It is reached by a road from Batheaston (2 m.), through a very pretty valley (where the road forks, turn to the L.), and has much that is interesting.  Portions of the church are late Norm. or E.E. (note the tower and chancel arches, and the fine font, with its variety of mouldings); but it was rebuilt by Prior Cantlow of Bath in the 15th cent.  The beautiful E. window, with its stained glass, bearing a Latin inscription, is of that date, and so is the carved pulpit, the colours of which are believed to reproduce the original.  There is a monument, with figures, to William Blanchard and his wife (1631), N. of the chancel.  Note, too, the roof of the choir, and the ancient glass in the S. windows.  Near the church is a cruciform tithe barn.  The Grange, close by, is also the work of Prior Cantlow; but the porch is a later addition, of Jacobean times.

St Decuman’s.  See Watchet.

St Michael Church, a small parish 1 m.  N. of Durston.  Its church is correspondingly small, with a low N. tower surmounted by a pyramidal roof.  It contains one or two monuments of the Slade family.

Saltford, a large village (with station) 6 m.  W.N.W. of Bath, situated on the Avon.  Its church, restored in 1851, is without interest, though it has a good Norm. font, with roughly carved heads below the bowl.

Sampford Arundel, a small village 2-3/4 m.  S.W. of Wellington.  Its church, in which nave and aisles are covered by a single roof, has a curious bit of sculpture (hands holding a heart) inserted in the N. wall.

Sampford Brett, 1 m.  S.E. of Williton, a village deriving its name from the family of Brett, one of whose members took part in the murder of Thomas a Becket.  The church is cruciform, but the plan is obscured by the position of the tower and a chapel on the S. side.  The only objects of interest are (1) the carved seat ends, one of which has the figure of a lady (supposed to be Florence Windham, of whom it is related that she was buried when in a trance, from which she was awakened by the sexton, who opened her coffin in order to steal her rings), (2) the effigy of a mailed warrior (in the vestry), presumably one of the Bretts.

Seavington St Mary, a small village 3 m.  E. from Ilminster, on the road to Ilchester.  The church stands by the wayside, a little apart from the village.  It is a fairly good specimen of a plain E.E. country church.  As examples of the style note (1) S. doorway, (2) chancel arch, comprising two remaining members of a triplet, with squint; (3) lancets in chancel, (4) plain round font.  The tower, the internal arch of which is peculiar, has been reconstructed in Perp. times.  The sanctuary contains a trefoiled piscina and an aumbry.  Inside the church doorway is a bench bearing date 1623; it was originally the parish bier.