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St Mary the Virgin
Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset | TA4 3AT
The church dates from around 1450 and is built of red sandstone, with a tall, typically Somerset tower and contains a fabulous rood turret housing the spiral stair leading to the top of the rood screen.