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Sexey's Hospital in Bruton, Somerset, England was built around 1630 as almshouses. The West Wing and chapel have been designated as a Grade I listed building. [1] The East Wing and gateway are grade II listed. [2] Hugh Sexey (1556–1619), was a local landowner. By the age of 43 he had been appointed Royal auditor of the Exchequer to King James ...
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 districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip and Sedgemoor. North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset historically came under Somerset County Council. In 1974 they became part of county of Avon , and in 1996 they became administratively independent when Avon was broken up into unitary authorities.
Remains of Bruton Abbey Bruton Parish church, and the abbey site beneath the playing field Bruton Parish church: the medieval nave and Rococo chancel. Bruton Abbey in Bruton, Somerset was founded as a house of Augustinian canons in about 1127, and became an abbey in 1511, shortly before its dissolution in 1539. It was endowed with manors ...
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.
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Wyke Champflower, Bruton, Somerset, England, dates from 1623 and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. [1]A wooden tympanum between the nave and chancel bears the 1624 Royal Arms, the arms of the then Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The ecclesiastical parishes within the Diocese of Bath and Wells cover the majority of the English county of Somerset and small areas of Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The episcopal seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells is in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the city of Wells in Somerset.
In the mid-12th century, the manor of Redlynch was held by Henry Lovel (died 1194) [1] of Castle Cary. [2] It was later part of the hundred of Bruton. [3]In the late 14th century it was acquired by James FitzJames (died c. 1391), whose great-grandson, Sir John FitzJames (died c. 1542), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, is recorded in 1538 as having a house at Redlynch which included a "great ...