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St Saviour, Puxton, Somerset

Location
(51°21′56″N, 2°51′11″W)
Puxton
ST 407 633
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Somerset
now Somerset
medieval Wells
now Bath & Wells
  • Robin Downes
  • Robin Downes

22 October 2008

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Feature Sets
Description

Puxton is a small village 5 miles NW of Axbridge in N Somerset. The church, which is hidden in a quiet setting behind some houses, consists of a W tower (which has a significant lean to the W due to it being built on peaty soil), nave, chancel and N porch. The church is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The sole Romanesque feature is a tub font.

History

By the late 12thc Puxton church was a chapel of Banwell (Aston and Costen). The manor of Banwell was held by the Bishop of Bath and Wells until the reign of Henry VI.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The simple design compared to other fonts in the locality suggests that lavish patronage was probably not available at the time of its creation.

Bibliography
  1. F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications (London, 1899), III, 231.

M. Aston and M. Costen, 'An Early Medieval and Secular Ecclesiastical Estate: the Origins of the Parish of Winscombe in North Somerset', Proceedings of the Somerset Natural History and Archaeological Society 151 (2008), 139-157.

Historic England listing 1156358

M. McDermott, Church of the Holy Saviour, Puxton (Churches Conservation Trust, 2009).

  1. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol (Harmondsworth, 1958), 248.