The Church of Saint Mary in

Limington Limington, also archaically Lymington, is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Yeovilton and District, in Somerset, England, situated north of Yeovil. The parish has a population of 199. The parish included the Hamlet (place ...

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, England dates from the late 14th century and includes fragments of an earlier building. It has been designated as a Grade I

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. Fragments of the north door and tower date from the Norman period, but most of the building is from the 14th century with the north chapel being dated to 1328. It is built of local stone with

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dressings. The tower has six bells, the oldest of which is from the 15th century. The interior includes a pulpit and altar table from the 17th century and an octagonal

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from the 16th. There are several effigies including one of Sir Richard Gyvernay who built the chantry chapel and died in 1329. Below this is a smaller female figure and there is also a double monument of a male and female figure, which are believed to be Henry and Matilda Power and date from the 1340s. One rector of renown was

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who held the living between 1500 and 1509, before becoming a

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. resident in the parish for at least 5 years he was placed in the stocks by the Sheriff of Somerset for 'drunken and lewd behaviour' at the Merriott fare. The Anglican parish is part of the benefice of Ilchester with Northover, Limington

Yeovilton Yeovilton is a village in Somerset, England, east of Ilchester and north of Yeovil. It had a population of 1,226 in the 2011 census, estimated at 1,418 in 2019. The village is part of ''Yeovilton and District'' civil parish, which includes ...

and Podimore within the archdeaconry of Wells.

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