The leaning tower of Puxton

I mentioned the other day that because the weather was so glorious we wanted to visit a twelfth century church near to where we live, Puxton church of St Saviour’s. The village of Puxton may originally have been Pukereleston (form Pukerel’s tun or settlement… a name which is understandably no longer fashionable!)

When it was first built there was probably only a nave and a chancel; the nave has opposing doorways and a north porch, and in the chancel there is now an organ, which obviously wasn’t there eight hundred years ago! The walls, so the guide book tell me, are of rendered rubble stone, and the roof was probably tiled, possibly with stone, but was later covered with Cornish slate. The has a very obvious lean to the west, but as it dates from the fifteenth century, and was bombed during the last war, it hasn’t done too badly to still be standing!The windows as you might imagine have arrived at different times in its  history; the one above is the west windows. The eastern window which has two arches has fourteenth century tracer,others are later and in different styles including the Perpendicular (the guide book says!).

The west door The leaning tower of PuxtonIt is a beautiful little church, well worth a visit if you are ever in Somerset!