[Illustration:  WESTON-SUPER-MARE]

Weston Zoyland, a parish 4 m.  E.S.E. of Bridgwater.  The village is more closely associated even than its neighbour Chedzoy with the Battle of Sedgmoor, for Feversham, the Royalist general, had his headquarters here; and, after the battle many of the rebels were confined in the church.  The church, which, unlike Chedzoy, is mainly Dec. and Perp., is remarkable for its unusually lofty tower (which has triple windows in the belfry).  The nave has a good roof, with pendants.  The N. transept is noteworthy for being carried above the base of the clerestory.  The parish belonged to Glastonbury, and in one of the chancel windows, on one of the seat ends, and on one of the external buttresses of the S. chapel, are the initials R.B. (Richard Bere, the last but one of the abbots).  In a recess under the window of the N. transept is the 15th-cent. effigy of a priest.  Note (1) the font, with curious hoops; (2) piscinas in N. and S. chapels; (3) old communion table.  In the fields between the church and Chedzoy were buried the slain of Sedgemoor.

Whatley, a small village 3 m.  W. from Frome.  The church is a small Dec. building with a rather dim interior.  The W. tower, like the neighbouring church of Frome, carries a spire.  There is a plain Norm. doorway within the porch.  A projecting chantry chapel on the S. has a squint (note the accommodating bulge in the external wall), and contains an altar tomb with recumbent effigy of Sir Oliver de Servington (1350).  Some of the bells are of pre-Reformation date.  Amongst the “rude forefathers of the hamlet” sleeps Dean Church, who held the rectory for nineteen years before his promotion to the Deanery of St Paul’s.  His grave is near the S. wall of the chancel.  Observe the small ecclesiastical window in the farn at the back of the church. Whatley House (rebuilt 1861) is on the site of an older mansion.  In a neighbouring field is preserved (in situ) a Roman pavement and the ruins of a bath.  In the grounds is a cross (restored) removed here from Nunney.

Wheathill, 5 m.  S.W. from Castle Cary.  The small church has been much restored.

Whitchurch, a village on the main road between Bristol and Shepton Mallet (nearest station Brislington, 2 m.).  It has a small (originally cruciform) church, with a low central tower, which is worth inspecting.  The tower arches seem to be Trans. and the chancel has three very small lancets.  There is a Norm. font, and outside the S. doorway is a stoup.

Whitelackington, a village 1-1/2 m.  E.N.E. of Ilminster.  Its church is a handsome structure.  The tower and body of the building are Perp., but there is Dec. work in the transepts (where note piscinas).  In the N. transept is the tomb of Sir George Speke (d. 1637), whilst under a window in the N. aisle are some small inscriptions on metal in memory of Anthonie Poole and his wife Margerie (d. 1587, 1606).  In the park of Whitelackington House there formerly stood a splendid chestnut tree, under which Monmouth met a large assemblage of his supporters in 1680.