Bishops Lydeard, Somerset - St. Mary's Church - postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  St. Mary's Church, Bishops Lydeard, [Somerset]
• Publisher: none stated (the church?) / photo by Ian Anderson
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Bishops Lydeard^{[needs IPA]} is a village and civil parish located in Somerset, England, 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Taunton in the district of Taunton Deane. The civil parish had a population of 2,839 persons as recorded in the 2011 census; this figure however includes the village (and now separate parish) of Cotford St Luke.^[1]

The village is bypassed, since 1967, by the A358 road; the West Somerset Railway also runs through the area. The hamlet of East Lydeard is less than a mile to the east of the village; west of the village is Sandhill Park, an eighteenth-century country house.

The Church of St Maryin Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England, dates from the 14th and 15th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.^[1]

In 1860–62 the church was extended by one bay and a vestry, by Edward Jeboult of Taunton, added.

The tower, which was built around 1497,^[2] has pierced tracery battlements, pinnacles, set back buttresses terminating in pinnacles at the bell-storey, and pinnacles on the buttresses at each stage.^[1] On the stonework are hunky punks which have been severely damaged by the weather, however one appears to represent a Sea serpent.^[3]

Between 2010 and 2011, an eleven-month restoration programme, focussing on the tower and costing £240,000, was undertaken by Sally Strachey Historic Conservation, under the supervision of Smith Gamblin Architects.^[4]

Several of the tombs in the churchyard are of historical importance, as are two crosses, one dating from the 14th century,^[5] the other being the town's market cross which was moved to the churchyard in the 19th century.^[6][7]