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.

Kingsdon, a village 2-1/2 m.  S.S.E. of Somerton.  Its church, in the main Perp., has a plain embattled tower and some Dec. windows.  The S. porch has niches for images and a stoup; there are piscinas in the chancel and the N. transept, and in the same transept the effigy of a crusader, believed to be one Guy Bryan.  On the road between Ilchester and Somerton, which passes over the hill below which the church is situated, a fine view may be obtained, embracing the Quantocks, the Blackdowns, and part of the Mendips.

Kingston St Mary, a village 3 m.  N. of Taunton.  Its church, prettily situated on rising ground, has a fine W. tower, crowned with numerous pinnacles and a turret spirelet.  On three sides are canopied niches, the upper ones supported on cherubs or angels.  The arcade of the nave is Trans. or E.E., that of the chancel Perp., the junction being rather clumsily effected.  There is no chancel arch.  The S. porch has a fine groined roof, with niches and holy-water stoup.  Note (1) the carved seat-ends (one having the date 1522); (2) the large tomb (temp. Edward III.) in the S. aisle belonging to the Warres; (3) black-letter Bible (1617) and Bishop Jewel’s works (chained).  The neighbouring mansion of Hestercombe, once the possession of the Warres, but now belonging to the Portmans, is said to preserve a sword taken by one of the Warres from King John of France at Poitiers.

Kingston Seymour is a village about 2 m.  W. of Yatton, with a halt on the Clevedon and Weston light railway.  Its church has a tower surmounted by a spire:  the parapet, which is of an unusual character, rises from the base of the latter.  The S. aisle has an exceptionally large squint, and a piscina; and the churchyard contains the base and shaft of an old cross.  The parish on more than one occasion has suffered from destructive inundations of the sea.

Kingstone, a small village 1 m.  S.E. of Ilminster.  The church is Perp., with a good central tower.  The windows contain some fragments of ancient glass.  The shape of the font is curious.

Kingweston (said to be a corruption of Kenwardston) is a parish 3 m.  N.E. of Somerton.  Its church has been rebuilt (1855), and its octagonal tower is crowned with a tall spire.  The doorway and font of an earlier Norm. church are still preserved, and in the chancel is an E.E. piscina.  The churchyard has the base and shaft of a cross.

Kittisford, a lonely parish 4 m.  N.W. of Wellington, near the Tone.  The church has been restored, but retains a piscina and a pulpit of 1610.  In the parish is an old manor-house called Cothay, of Tudor date.

Knowle St Giles, a small hamlet on a hillside, 2-1/2 m.  N.E. of Chard.  The church has been rebuilt.

Lambrook, East, 2-1/2 m.  S. by W. of Martock, is a hamlet belonging to Kingsbury Episcopi, with a small towerless church.  It has a Dec.  E. window with a foliated interior arch, a niche for a small piscina, and two heads inserted in the walls (perhaps originally for the Lenten veil).  There are some remains of an old house at the post-office which are worth observing.

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