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The Church of St Mary in Bruton, Somerset, England was largely built in the 14th century. Like many Somerset churches, it has a very fine tower; less usually it has a second one as well. [2] Simon Jenkins has called Bruton's tower "Somerset architecture at its most powerful." [3] It has been designated a Grade I listed building. [4] [5]
The restoration of the interior of Bruton Parish Church to its colonial form and appearance was inaugurated by a service held on May 14, 1905, with a sermon on the Continuity of the Life of the Church, by Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker, D.D. [17] The church's restoration was completed by 1907, in time to mark the 300th anniversary of the ...
The present parish church, the Church of St Mary, Bruton, is mainly a 14th-15th century structure, within the grounds of the abbey so strictly a chapel of it, but always in effect the parish church of the town; there was a church on the site since Anglo-Saxon times, long before the priory was founded. [8]
Bruton Parish Poorhouse Archeological Site is a historic archaeological site located near Williamsburg, York County, Virginia. It is the site of a poorhouse established by Bruton Parish Church after a 1755 act of the assembly empowering all the colony's parishes to erect poorhouses.
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Bruton (/ ˈ b r uː t ən / BROO-tən) is a small market town, [2] [3] and civil parish in Somerset, England, on the River Brue and the A359 between Frome and Yeovil.It is 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Shepton Mallet, just south of Snakelake Hill and Coombe Hill, 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Gillingham and 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Frome.
William Archer Rutherfoord "W. A. R." Goodwin (June 18, 1869 – September 7, 1939) was an Episcopal priest, historian, and author. As the rector of Bruton Parish Church, Goodwin began the 20th-century preservation and restoration effort which resulted in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
[1] [3] Ballard was a vestryman of Bruton Parish in Middle Plantation when it built its first brick church in 1682–83. He spent his final years pursuing a lawsuit against Nathaniel Bacon's estate, trying to recover the balance due on the 1675 land sale. [1] [3] Ballard died and was buried at Bruton Parish Church on March 24, 1689. [2] [5]