The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Barrington,

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, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I

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. St Mary's Church has a three bay

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two bay

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. There is an unusual

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al tower, which includes a bell dating from 1743 and made by Thomas Bilbie of the

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. The south transept includes a 13th-century canopied

piscina A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church, or else in the vestry or sacristy, used for washing the communion vessels. The sacrarium is the drain itself. Anglicans usually refer to the basin, calling it a piscina. For Roman Ca ...

. There is a 19th-century panelled

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which may contain fragments of an earlier construction. The parish is part of the

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of Winsmoor within the deanery of Crewkerne and Ilminster.

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