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Church of St Andrew
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Location Puckington, Somerset, England
Built 13th Century
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: Church of St Andrew
Designated 17 April 1959
Reference no. 1057727
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The Anglican Church of St Andrew in Puckington, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

History

The church was built in the 13th century and revised in the 15th. A Victorian restoration in the mid 19th century added the south transept.

The parish is part of the Winsmoor benefice within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.

Architecture

The stone building consists of a two-bay nave, two-bay chancel, transept, and a porch on the southern side with a small vestry on the north. Its three-stage tower is supported by set-back buttresses. It has a tiled roof adorned with gargoyles and battlements with pinnacles. Inside the church is a 13th-century piscina and sedilia.

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