Seavington St Michael, Somerset

Historical Description

Seavington St Michael, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 3½ miles W of Ilminster station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Ilminster; money order and telegraph office, South Petherton. Acreage, 286; population of the civil parish, 176; of the ecclesiastical, 313. The manor belongs to Winchester college. The living is a rectory, united with Dinnington, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £320 with residence. Patron, Earl Powlett. The church is old but good.

Administration

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

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

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1689.

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

Churches

Church of England

St. Michael (parish church)

The church of St. Michael is a small but ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a turret containing 3 bells: attached to the outside of the chancel wall is an ancient stone effigy without any inscription: there are sittings for 138 persons.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Seavington St Michael from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Seavington (St. Michael))

Maps

Online maps of Seavington St Michael are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette
• Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser
• Western Gazette
• Wells Journal
• Somerset County Gazette

Visitations Heraldic

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