Somerset
| Name |
Type |
Date |
Condition |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleeve Abbey | Abbey | 1198 | Parts survive | Located near the village of Washford, Cleeve Abbey was founded as a house for monks of the Cistercian order. It was closed in 1536 and the abbey was converted into a country house. | |
| Dunster Butter Cross | Standing cross | 15th century | Ruined | A transplanted stump of a medieval stone cross, once a meeting place for butter-sellers. | |
| Dunster Gallox Bridge | Bridge | 15th century | Complete | An ancient stone bridge which once carried packhorses bringing fleeces to Dunster market. | |
| Dunster Yarn Market | Market hall | 17th century | Complete | A 17th century timber-framed octagonal market hall in the village of Dunster. | |
| Farleigh Hungerford Castle | Castle | 14th century | Ruined | Started in the 14th century, this fortified mansion was occupied for 300 years by the Hungerford family. Much of it was broken up for salvage in the 18th century. The castle chapel was repaired in 1779 and became a museum of curiosities, complete with the murals rediscovered on its walls in 1844. | |
| Glastonbury Tribunal | Town house | 15th century | Complete | A late 15th century town house, once mistakenly identified as a courtroom of Glastonbury Abbey. It now houses both the Tourist Information Centre and the Glastonbury Lake Village Museum. | |
| Meare Fish House | Fish house | 14th century | Complete | The only surviving monastic fishery building in England, this housed the Abbot of Glastonbury's water bailiff and provided facilities for fish-salting and drying. | |
| Muchelney Abbey | Abbey | 12th century | Ruined | Once a wealthy Benedictine house and the second oldest religious foundation in Somerset, but as part of the dissolution the abbey’s principal buildings were demolished by Henry VIII in 1538. The foundations of the abbey are laid out with parts of the cloister walk and thatched monks’ lavatory. The 16th century abbots’ house remains intact. | |
| Nunney Castle | Castle | 14th century | Ruined | A moated castle built in the 1370s. Extensively modernised in the late 16th century, the castle was held for the King during the Civil War, but quickly fell to Parliamentarian cannon in 1645: not until Christmas Day 1910, however, did the gun-damaged portion of the wall finally collapse. | |
| Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument | Monument | 1720 | Complete | Erected on Lansdowne Hill, Bath, to commemorate the heroism of Sir Bevil Grenville and his Cornish pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643, | |
| Stanton Drew Circles and Cove | Henge | Neolithic | Parts survive | The three circles and a stone cove near the village of Stanton Drew, are the third largest collection of prehistoric standing stones in England. The Great Circle probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today, and was surrounded by the ditch (now filled in) of a henge. It lies between two smaller circles, whilst to the west is a cove of three stones standing in the garden of a public house. | |
| Stoney Littleton Long Barrow | Tumulus | Neolithic | Mostly complete | A Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers, located near the village of Wellow, Somerset. It is an example of the Severn-Cotswold tomb. The barrow is about 30m in length and stands nearly 3m high. Internally it contains a gallery with three pairs of side chambers and an end chamber. |
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