The Church of All Saints in
East Pennard
East Pennard is a village and civil parish north west of Castle Cary, and south of Shepton Mallet, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It has a population of 348. The parish includes the hamlets of Stone, Parbrook and Huxham.
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Somerset
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, England, dates from the 14th century. It is a grade I
listed building
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The tower contains a clock and five bells. They are the second heaviest
peal
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of five bells in the world.
Inside the church is a
Norman
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Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
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font and several stained-glass windows; there is also an altar screen and monuments of the Martines and Napiers.
The 15th-century churchyard cross was restored in 1919 as a memorial to those who died in
World War I
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In 2011, fundraising was undertaken to raise the £60,000 needed to repair the roof.
The parish is part of the Fosse Trinity
benefice within the deanery of
Shepton Mallet.
See also
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Grade I listed buildings in Mendip
Mendip is a local government district in the English county of Somerset. The Mendip district covers a largely rural area of ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. It has a population of approximately 11,000. The admin ...
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List of Somerset towers
The Somerset towers, church towers built in the 14th to 16th centuries, have been described as among England's finest contributions to medieval art. The paragraphs and descriptions below describe features of some of these towers. The organization ...
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References
External links
East Pennard Church website
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14th-century church buildings in England
Grade I listed churches in Somerset
Church of England church buildings in Mendip District
Grade I listed buildings in Mendip District