St Augustine's Church, West Monkton Explained

Church of St Augustine
Location Town:	West Monkton
Location Country:	England
Map Type:	Somerset
Coordinates:	51.0507°N -3.0528°W

The Church of St Augustine in West Monkton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.^[1]

The parish church has an 88feet tower, of four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example. Nikolaus Pevsner proposes that St Augustine's tower is older than the surrounding church towers, with a tower arch that may date to 1300 as part of a previous church building.^[2]

The churchyard includes a stocks and whipping post under a canopy.^[3]

See also

• List of Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane
• List of towers in Somerset
• List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells

Notes and References

1. Web site: Church of St Augustine . historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. 2009-04-14.
2. Book: Pevsner, Nikolaus . The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset . 2003 . Yale University Press . New Haven, Connecticut . 0-300-09644-5.
3. Web site: Stocks and whipping post under canopy. historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. 2009-02-11.