The Church of St John the Baptist in

Carhampton Carhampton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, to the east of Minehead. Carhampton civil parish stretches from the Bristol Channel coast inland to Exmoor. The parish has a population of 865 (2011 census). History Iron Age occup ...

Somerset Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...

, England is a Grade I listed

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church. The first church in the village stood to the east of the present church and was dedicated to St Carantoc a Welsh monk of the 6th century. The present church was mainly built in the

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of the fifteenth century, however it was largely rebuilt in 1862–1863 with further work in tower rebuilt 1868–70 to rebuild the tower and add a vestry. It previously had a low tower with a tiled top. The wooden pulpit and a painted wooden screen from the previous building and date from around 1500, along with some of the monuments and bells from the earlier church. The church is within the

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of Dunster, Carhampton, Withycombe w Roduish, Timberscombe and Wootton Courtenay, which is part of the Exmoor deanery and the Taunton archdeanery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carhampton, Church of St John the Baptist Church of England church buildings in West Somerset Churches completed in 1863

Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset

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