Barrington, Somerset

Description
Barrington a parish in Somerset, 3 1/2 miles NE of Ilminster station on the G.W.R. Post town, and money order and telegraph office, Petherton. Acreage, 1192; population of the civil parish, 447; of the ecclesiastical, 408. Barrington Court is an exceptionally fine and unaltered specimen of Early Tudor domestic architecture, built by the Daubneys, and afterwards held, amongst others, by the Phelipses and Strodes. In the time of the latter it was visited by the Duke of Monmouth. It is now a farmhouse, and some parts of it in bad repair. The church is cruciform, and of the 13th and 15th centuries, and has a central octagonal tower. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £290. There is a Wesleyan chapel.