East Lambrook is a villlage in the South Somerset district of the county, 5 miles S of Langport. It is the easternmost of the three Lambrook villages, and overlooks the brook of the same name, a tributary of the River Parrett. The village is at a junction of minor roads, just N of the A303, once the Fosse Way. The church stands on the southern edge of the village, near to the Lambrook Stream. Recent archaeological work (Mudd and Brett (2012)) has uncovered and excavated a multi-period prehistoric and historic site on the S bank of the Lambrook Stream some 500 yards E of the church, not far from its confluence with the Parrett. That evidence suggests a long settlement dating at least from the Neolithic.
The church consists of a chancel and a nave with a double bell-cote on the W gable and a small W porch. A S nave doorway has been blocked. The earliest feature is the late-12thc chancel arch, described below, but the church also contains 13thc, 14thc and later medieval work, and an 18thc gallery and pulpit inside. The bell-cote is 19thc. Construction is of coursed and squared rubble in a local stone related to hamstone, with slate roofs.
