St Augustine's Church, West Monkton

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]

Church of St Augustine
Stone building with square tower, partially obscured by trees.
St Augustine's Church, West Monkton is located in Somerset
St Augustine's Church, West Monkton
Location within Somerset
General information
Town or cityWest Monkton
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°03′03″N 3°03′10″W / 51.0507°N 3.0528°W / 51.0507; -3.0528

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]

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  1. ^ "Church of St Augustine". historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
  2. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09644-5.
  3. ^ "Stocks and whipping post under canopy". historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. Retrieved 11 February 2009.