The Church of St Michael in

Buckland Dinham Buckland Dinham is a small village near Frome in Somerset, England. The village has a population of 381. The village's main industry is farming (arable and dairy), but the village is also a dormitory village for the nearby cities of Bath and ...

, Somerset, England, has been designated as a Grade I

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. The church has a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

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, south chapel and south porch which date from around 1200. The north chapel was added in 1325, and a further chapel to the north of the chancel and the west tower being added in 1480. It underwent restoration in the late 19th century. The tower contains six bells which were not rung between the 1950s and 1990s when a restoration project was undertaken including the addition of a bell from

St Paul's Church, Bristol St Paul's Church gives its name to the surrounding St Paul's area of Bristol. It was built in the 1790s but fell into disuse and disrepair by its closure in 1988. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade&n ...

. The Anglican parish is part of the Mells with Buckland Dinham,

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, Whatley and Chantry benefice within the archdeaconry of

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