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unusual facts about Church of St Peter and St Paul, Over Stowey



Church of St Peter and St Paul, Budeč

The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Budeč is a rotunda church at early medieval fortified settlement of Budeč near Zákolany, Czech Republic.

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Kilmersdon

The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, dates back to the Norman period, though much of the current structure was built during the 15th and 16th centuries and restored in the Victorian era.

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk

The tower was probably built to house the bells from Burscough Priory, which had been suppressed c.

In his Passages from the English Notebooks of 1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne commented that the church "has not exactly a venerable aspect, being too good in repair, and much restored in various parts".

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Over Stowey

Many of the monuments inside and outside the church are to members of the Labouchere and later Stanley family who built and occupied Quantock Lodge, owned much of the parish and funded the church restoration.

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham

The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough in Uppingham, Rutland.

Dowsborough

In Saxon times, King Alfred's military road, the Herepath, ran up from Combwich, Cannington (a possible site of the Battle of Cynwit) and Over Stowey, along the present course of the Stowey road, across Dead Woman's Ditch to Crowcombe Park Gate, south along the main ridge of the Quantocks to Triscombe Stone, then west across the valley to the Brendon Hills and Exmoor.

Giles Daubeney, 6th Baron Daubeney

The brass effigies of Daubeney and his first wife Joan can be seen in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, in South Petherton, Somerset.


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