whilst the tower and the clerestory (which is rarely found where there are no aisles) belong to the Perp. period.  Note (1) the fine stone 15th cent. pulpit, a not uncommon feature in the neighbourhood (cp.  Worle, Hutton, Locking, Loxton, Banwell); (2) arch with quaint finial at entrance to rood-loft stair; (3) old glass in S. chapel.  In 1852 a small carved figure, built into the N. wall of the church, was found to conceal, in a recess at the back of it, a broken wooden cup, stained with human blood, supposed to be that of St Thomas a Becket, and to have been brought from Worspring Priory.  It is now in Taunton Museum.  Opposite the church door is a series of steps leading up the hill, called St Kew’s Steps, the origin of which is unknown.  On the top of the hill is the village of Milton, with a modern church.

KEYNSHAM, a small town on the Chew near its confluence with the Avon.  It has a station on the G.W. main line to Bristol.  Pop. nearly 3000.  It is a long straggling sort of place of not very lively appearance, resembling an overgrown village.  Its history is rather romantic than reliable.  Its patron saint, S. Keyne, a Welsh lady of exceptional sanctity, dwelt in a neighbouring wood much infested with serpents.  The reptiles, not usually susceptible to the voice of the charmer, were at her intercession turned into stone—­a fact to which the ammonites in the local quarry bear witness.  St Keyne’s name occurs also at Kentisford, near Watchet.  Later, the town acquired a borrowed lustre from its association with one of the greater religious houses.  In 1170 William of Gloster founded here on a magnificent scale a monastery of Austin Canons.  This glory has now departed.  The Reformation and the Bridges family between them made a clean sweep of everything.  The abbey was used as a quarry for building the family mansion, which has by the irony of fate likewise disappeared.  Monastic odds and ends may be discovered here and there worked into houses and garden walls.  A gateway on the R. of lane leading to station is made up of such fragments.  A heap of debris to the E. of the church indicates the whereabouts of the original buildings.  The church is a spacious rather than an inspiring edifice.  A massive W. tower was built in 1634 to replace a tower which stood at the E. end of the N. aisle, and was destroyed by a thunderstorm.  The chancel is the most interesting part of the building, and should be examined externally where the original E.E. lancets are visible.  Within, it has been converted into a kind of mausoleum for the Bridges family, some of whom are represented in effigy.  Note the round-headed double piscina in sanctuary.  The S. aisle is Dec., and contains a fine Perp. screen.  The Caroline screen dividing the S. chapel from chancel should also be observed.  The window tracery throughout the church is crude.  A row of alms-houses near the Wingrove Hotel were founded by Sir T. Bridges.  A Roman tessellated pavement was discovered in making the railway cutting, and was removed to Bristol.