Description

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WEST CAMEL CP
STEART HILL

Parson's Steeple (20 metres North-east Steeple House)

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Commemorative obelisk-type monument. Late C18. Local stone cut and
squared, roughly coursed. Rectangular plan base with sloping buttress on
South side; semi-circular arched deep recess on North side, with impost
corbels, occupying half the total 6 metres height of the monument; taper
starts on East and West sides only from springing level to about 30Omm
width at the top; any termination now missing. In the recess a shaped
niche where the inscription stone, described as "long since lost" in
1953, was set: it read "In memory of Henry Parsons, who died 24th
September 1794 aged 84". Parsons was a noted eccentric who lived at
Naish's Farm (qv), and built this monument during his lifetime,
planting trees and shrubs around it. He was by legend, buried here
without sacred rite: no record exists in the parish registers. (E.M.
Garrett, The Story of West Camel, unpublished MS in Yeovil Reference
Library, 1953).

Listing NGR: ST5773725822

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26629573

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair