Church of St Michael, Brent Knoll
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The Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll, Somerset
, England dates from the 11th century but has undergone several renovations since then. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.
The church is best known for its unusual carvings on some of its pew ends and in particular the three that make up an allegorical cartoon thought to depict an avaricious Abbot of Glastonbury in the guise of a fox.
The tower, which has been dated to around 1397, contains a bell dating from 1777 and made by William Bilbie of the Bilbie family
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Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England dates from the 11th century but has undergone several renovations since then. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.
The church is best known for its unusual carvings on some of its pew ends and in particular the three that make up an allegorical cartoon thought to depict an avaricious Abbot of Glastonbury in the guise of a fox.
The tower, which has been dated to around 1397, contains a bell dating from 1777 and made by William Bilbie of the Bilbie family
Bilbie family
The Bilbie family were bell founders and clockmakers based initially in Chew Stoke, Somerset and later at Cullompton, Devon in south-west England from the late 17th century to the early 19th century....
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