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Long Sutton, Somerset

Historical Description

Sutton, Long, a parish, with a village and two hamlets in Somerset, 4 miles from Langport station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Langport; telegraph office, Somerton. Acreage, 3851; population, 802. The parish has a council of six members. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £150 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The church is in the Perpendicular style, with a lofty embattled tower; the pulpit dates from 1474. There are a Friends' meetinghouse and a temperance hall.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySomersetshire 
Ecclesiastical parishLong Sutton Holy Trinity 
HundredSomerton 
Poor Law unionLangport 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1558.

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.


Churches

Church of England

Holy Trinity (parish church)

The church of the Holy Trinity is a building of stone, in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel with chapels, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches, and a lofty embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells: the chancel has a modern arched roof panelled: the nave roof is a fine example of timber work of the Late Perpendicular period, and is divided into four bays by framed principals, richly moulded, with embattled tie-beams, supported on corbels and ornamented with quatrefoils and carved bosses, the space between the tie-beams and the roof being filled in with open tracery: the aisle roofs are of simpler character, but have moulded principals carried on corbels and brackets: the chancel has three sedilia and a piscina: the rood screen, an admirable example of Late Perpendicular woodwork, extends completely across the church, partially inclosing the chapels: the lower portion is panelled, and the upper part carved and groined, the ribs springing from slender shafts rising from the base: the frieze is divided by mouldings into three bands, elaborately carved with running foliage: the entrances to the chancel and chapels are through tall open doorways, the intervening spaces being arched and filled in with open tracery; the rood loft stairs remain in a turret adjoining the south chapel: the octagonal pulpit is an extremely fine and highly wrought work of the same period: the exterior is divided by crocketed pinnacles into a series of narrow divisions, each forming a tall canopied niche: the projecting desk frieze is enriched with carved foliage and the upper part of the base has alternating bands of moulding and carved work, surmounted by a trefoil cresting: in 1878-9 the nave roof was thoroughly restored at a cost of about £230, the roofs of the aisles and chapels re-constructed and an organ gallery formed above the rood screen, under the direction of John S. Quilter esq. F.R.I.B.A. of London, and a new organ provided at a cost of £265: the tower, which is groined in its lower stage, has a western entrance and a stair turret on the south side: there are sittings for 300 persons.

Holy Trinity, Long SuttonNave of Holy Trinity, Long Sutton


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Long Sutton from the following:


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictSouth Somerset
CountySomerset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtTA10
Post TownLangport

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