Church of St Augustine | |
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Location within Somerset
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General 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.
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.
The churchyard includes a and whipping post under a canopy.