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Norton sub Hamdon, Somerset

Historical Description

Norton-sub-Hamdon, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, near the river Parrot, 3 miles from Montacute station on the G.W.R., and 5½ W of Yeovil. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stoke-sub-Hambdon. Acreage, 632; population, 515. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £160 with residence. The church is Late Perpendicular, has been restored, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower, and has a fine memorial W four-light window. The church tower was struck by lightning in July, 1894, and was completely gutted by fire. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 parishNorton-Under-Hambdon St. Mary 
HundredHoundsborough 
Poor Law unionYeovil 

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

St. Mary the Virgin (parish church)

The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient building of Ham stone, in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock with chimes and 6 bells: the porch is of much earlier date than the church: the stained east window was erected in 1801 as a memorial to Mrs. Maria Quantock, of Chilton Cantelo, and John Henry, her only son, both of whom were buried in the vaults of this church on the same day; on the south side is a memorial window, erected in 1874, to the Rev. Naunton Lemuel Shuldham, his wife and two children; and there is another, placed in 1904, to commemorate the golden wedding of Charles and Susan Trask: the church was restored in 1862, at a cost of about £1,200, but on the 29th of July, 1894, it was struck by lightning, causing a fire which greatly damaged the tower, the bells and clock, and the font was also smashed by a falling beam; the total damage amounted to £1,600; the tower has since been restored and the bells, clock and font renewed: the western doors of carved wood were presented by the late Charles Trask esq.; there are sittings for 400 persons.

St. Mary the Virgin, Norton sub HamdonNave of St. Mary the Virgin, Norton sub Hamdon

Methodist

Wesleyan Chapel

There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1842, and seating 150 persons.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Norton sub Hamdon from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Norton sub Hamdon are available from a number of sites:


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 districtTA14
Post TownStoke-Sub-Hamdon

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