Somerset eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 291 pages of information about Somerset.

Somerset eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 291 pages of information about Somerset.

Tintinhull (formerly Tyncnell), a village 1-1/2 m.  N. from Montacute Station, preserving some old houses and possessing an interesting church.  The latter appears to be E.E. with Dec. and Perp. insertions and additions.  The massive tower is unusually placed on the N. side, and has in the basement a blocked squint.  Features of the church which deserve notice are (1) the S. porch, which has a ribbed roof, and supports on its gable an odd kind of sundial (cp.  Middle Chinnock), (2) stone base of rood screen, on which is a mutilated piscina, (3) double piscina (E.E.) in chancel, (4) bench-ends (1511), with the old seats hinged to them, (5) ancient tiles (14th cent.), (6) Jacobean pulpit; (7) brasses, one to John Stone (d. 1416), and another, with effigy, to John Heth (d. 1464).  At one end of the churchyard is a gate-post with an inscription; and not far away is the former rectory (now called the Court House).  In the village, beneath a magnificent elm, are the ancient stocks.

Tolland, a village 4 m.  N. by E. of Wiveliscombe.  Its small church contains little of interest, except some ancient tiles and some carved woodwork.  In the parish is an old manor house called Gaulden Farm, with a large hall decorated with a fine plaster ceiling, with pendant and cornice, but inspection of it is not easily obtained.  James Turberville, Bishop of Exeter, is said to have lived here in seclusion, when deprived of his see in 1559.

Treborough, a small village 6 m.  S.W. of Williton.  The district is hilly, and the church small.

Trull, a village 2 m.  S.W. of Taunton, on the Honiton road.  Its church is of no great architectural interest, but is remarkable for its woodwork—­rood-screen, pulpit, and seat ends.  The screen is very good:  note above it the tympanum, projecting below the chancel arch and formerly joined to the rood-loft by an oak addition.  The pulpit has five figures in high relief, which seem to represent an apostle, a pope, a cardinal, and two bishops (or perhaps a bishop and a mitred abbot).  Among the bench-ends are panels representing figures in a religious procession, including (1) a boy with a cross, (2) a man with a candle, (3) a man with a reliquary, (4) and (5) two ecclesiastics (or perhaps choristers) with books.  The artist’s name (Simon Warman) and the date of his work (1560) are engraved at the W. end of the N. aisle.  There is also some excellent ancient glass in the E. and S. windows of the chancel.  In the churchyard, under a tree, are preserved the parish stocks.

Twerton, a populous working-class suburb on the W. side of Bath, with a station on the G.W.R. main line to Bristol.  The name of the place (the town at the weir) betrays its Saxon origin, but the only thing known of its early history is that the Bath monks had a cloth mill here.  A large clothing factory, which is one of the chief industries of the place, after a fashion perpetuates the tradition. 

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