Churches
Both the 14th-century Church of St Mary, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, in Wyke Champflower, which is dated at 1623, are Grade I listed buildings.
John Wesley preached in Bruton in 1776 and a Methodist chapel at West End was opened in 1848. The congregation is served by the Somerset Mission Circuit, expected to become part of the expanded Somerset Mendip Circuit in September 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the word churches:
“What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
My woods the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires.
I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas trees.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)