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.

Elworthy, a village 4 m.  S.W. of Stogumber Station.  The small church (Perp.) contains a carved illuminated Caroline screen (1632).  The pulpit, approached by the rood staircase, is of the same date.  In a small window in the N. wall is some ancient glass.  Above the village is a British camp, called Elworthy Barrows, which can be reached from near the church.  Towards Wiveliscombe, on the L. of the road, rises Willett Hill (950 ft.), crowned by a tower.

Emborrow (the first syllable perhaps a corruption of Elm), a small hamlet on the Mendips, 1-1/2 m.  N. of Binegar Station.  The church is a forlorn-looking building with a central tower containing a 14th-cent. sanctus-bell. Emborrow Pool is a dismal sheet of water bordering the main road and surrounded by trees.  It has the appearance of being rapidly silted up.

Englishcombe, a small and rather uncouth-looking village 3 m.  S.W. from Bath, and 1-1/2 m.  S.W. from Twerton Station (G.W.R.).  It still retains something of the aloofness which once characterised it as an English outpost on the Welsh border, and is worth a visit.  The church is of considerable antiquarian interest.  It consists of a Perp. nave, a central Norm. tower, and a Norm. chancel.  A Perp. chapel, now occupied by the organ, adjoins the porch.  Externally, note the fantastic corbel table round chancel.  Within, it has two good pointed Norm. arches, and on the N. wall of tower a well-preserved Norm., arcade.  Observe (1) detached Norm. capitals on N. wall, (2) panelling round splay of W. window of nave and S. window of chapel.  Almost opposite to the S. entrance to the churchyard is a tithe barn once belonging to Bath Abbey, which still shows some indication of its ecclesiastical origin.  At the W. end of graveyard is a farm-house with orchard, and beyond this is a field where may be seen a good specimen of the Wansdyke.  Near the village once stood a castle of the De Gourneys.  The site is marked by a mound on a neighbouring estate.

Enmore, a village 5 m.  S.W. of Bridgwater, on the road leading to the S.E. extremity of the Quantocks.  Its church has a good tower, noticeable for the pinnacles that crown the staircase turret.  The tower-vault is groined, the chancel arch panelled, and there is a Norm.  S. door (belonging to a former fabric) with carved capitals and good mouldings.  Note (1) the carved wooden pulpit, (2) the niche, supported by an angel, on the S. face of the tower.  In the churchyard there is the broken shaft of a cross. Enmore Park (W.B.  Broadmead) is hard by.  It was formerly called Enmore Castle, and once belonged to the Malets.

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