Churches in SomersetSomerset, England

England's earliest Gothic cathedral, famous for its carved west front and the great scissor arches crossing the nave.

Late Gothic abbey church beside the Roman Baths, known for its fan vaulting and the angels climbing ladders up its west front.

Medieval Quantock-foot church with a carved wooden screen and a thousand-year-old yew shading its churchyard.

Red-sandstone Quantock church with a fine Somerset tower, a painted rood screen and its own fox-and-geese bench ends.

Mendip-valley church famous for a soaring Jacobean carved-oak screen, pulpit and canopy of 1616.

Home to one of the finest of all Somerset towers, a richly pinnacled fifteenth-century masterpiece Turner thought worth painting near Langport.

Below its landmark hill, a church famous for medieval bench ends telling a satire of an abbot-fox hanged by his flock of geese.