Brympton d’Evercy, a small parish 3 m.  W. of Yeovil.  It gets its name from the D’Evercys, who seem to have possessed the estate in the 13th cent., but it subsequently passed to other families, till in the 15th cent. it fell to the Sydenhams, changing hands again in the 18th cent.  The church is a very interesting structure of the Dec. period.  It is cruciform in plan, with a N. chapel of Perp. date, and has on its W. gable a large bell-cot (cp.  Chilthorne Domer).  Within, note (1) stone screen (Perp.), remarkable for the seat along its W. front, (2) piscinas in chancel, transepts, and chapel, (3) font (Dec.), (4) pulpit (Jacobean), (5) chandeliers (said to be Dutch), (6) squints.  There are several effigies, which are not in their original positions, but are conjectured to have belonged to a chapel now destroyed.  They are, (1) in the N. transept an abbot and a nun beneath recesses carved with modern reliefs; (2) in the chapel a knight in armour and a lady.  Between the chapel and chancel is the large coloured tomb of Sir John Sydenham, 1626 (the curious epitaph is worth reading).  In the chapel is some ancient glass, and in the churchyard there is the base of an old cross and two early fonts.

N. of the church is a building of two storeys, variously described as a chantry house (a chantry was founded here by Sir Peter d’Evercy, 1307) or a manor house, with an external octagon turret containing a staircase. Brympton House (the residence of Sir S.C.B.  Ponsonby-Fane) has a good W. front of Tudor date (note arms of Henry VIII.), with a porch added in 1722, and a S. front built in the 18th cent., though from designs by Inigo Jones (died 1697), with terrace leading to the garden.

Buckland Denham, a village prominently perched on a hillside 3 m.  N.W. from Frome.  It was once a busy little town with a flourishing cloth trade.  The church has a W. tower with an unusual arrangement of windows (cp.  Hemington).  The Norm.  S. doorway and the device by which the upper part of the porch has been converted into a parvise should be noticed.  Three chapels are attached to the church.  The one at the N., originally the chantry of Sir J. Denham, has on the floor the figures of a knight and his lady in relief.  In two of the chapels are piscinas, and there is a large one in the chancel.  Some ancient glass, with emblems of the Evangelists, will be found in one of the chapels.  The Norm. font, with different mouldings on opposite sides, deserves attention.

Buckland St Mary, a parish 5 m.  N.W. of Chard, has a modern church (1853-63), very richly decorated, which it owes to the munificence of the rector, though to some its ornateness will seem a little out of harmony with its rural surroundings.  The wooden cover of the font is said to be all that remains of the former church.  Not far away are a number of flint stones which are conjectured to be Celtic memorials.

Buckland, West, 5 m.  S.W. of Taunton, has a Perp. church, preserving earlier materials, but of no great interest to the ordinary observer.  The W. tower has the bell-turret on the S. side (cp.  Wellington and Bradford).  Note (1) the Norm. font (on a modern base), (2) the entrance to the former rood-loft.  The churchyard commands a fine view.