- Church of St Augustine, West Monkton
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Church of St Augustine 
Location within SomersetGeneral information Town or city West Monkton Country England Coordinates 51°03′03″N 3°03′10″W / 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 88 feet (26.8 m) 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
References
- ^ "Church of St Augustine". Images of England. English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=270748. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096445.
- ^ "Stocks and whipping post under canopy". Images of England. English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=270756. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
Categories:- Church of England churches in Somerset
- 13th-century architecture
- Grade I listed churches
- Grade I listed buildings in Somerset
- Taunton Deane
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