Ditcheat, a village 1-1/4 m.  S.W. of Evercreech Junction.  Both the church and the former rectory are interesting.  The church is cruciform, with an embattled central tower, crowned by a small pyramidal cap, and is remarkable for possessing a clerestory to the chancel as well as the nave.  The building seems to have been originally Norm.; but the present chancel is Dec. (note the lower windows, with their rear foliations), and both it and the rest of the fabric were altered in the 15th cent., when the Perp. clerestory was added.  Features to be observed are (1) effigies on W. face of the tower, (2) groined tower-vault, (3) wooden roof, with traces of paint and gilding, (4) fine wooden pulpit and reading-desk of Charles I.’s time, (5) initials of John Selwood, Abbot of Glastonbury (1456-93), on the chancel parapet.  The house which was once the rectory, was built by John Gunthorpe, Dean of Wells, in the 15th cent. (his monogram appears on one of the windows), though it has undergone subsequent enlargement.  The thickness of the walls is noteworthy.

Dodington, a small parish 7 m.  E. of Williton.  It has a small church, retaining a fine stoup and some fragments of ancient glass in the E. window.  Not far from it is a fine and well-preserved Elizabethan manor house, dating from 1581.  It contains a noble hall, with fine oak roof and screen, minstrel gallery, and a large fireplace (1581), and two smaller rooms, one of which opens from the hall by a 15th-cent. stone doorway, which must have been transferred from elsewhere.  Of these two rooms the one has a good oak roof, and the other a curious plaster cornice.

Dolbury Camp.  See Churchill.

Donyatt, a village on the Ile, 2 m.  S.W. of Ilminster, from which it is most directly approached by a footpath.  The church is Perp., and has been well restored.  There is a stoup at the W. entrance, and another in the N. chapel.  Note the foliage round the capitals of the chancel arch.  In the parish are the remains of an old manor house.

Doulting, a small village 2 m.  E. from Shepton Mallet, on the road to Frome.  Its chief interest lies in its remarkable freestone quarries from which the mediaeval builders hewed their blocks for the walls of Wells and Glastonbury.  The quarries are still of considerable commercial importance, as the stone is easily wrought and of great durability.  Here, too, St Aldhelm was seized with a fatal illness and carried into the church to die.  His funeral procession to Malmesbury was an imposing ecclesiastical function, the “stations” en route being subsequently marked by crosses.  A spring in the vicarage garden is still called St Aldhelm’s Well.  The church is a small cruciform building with a central octagonal tower and spire.  It has some E.E. features, but has been largely rebuilt (note the E.E. columns covered with ivy in churchyard near W. end of church).  The N. porch encloses a Norm.