title: St Augustine's Church, West Monkton
text: # St Augustine's Church, West Monkton
  
  The Church of St Augustine in West Monkton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
  
  The parish church has an 88 feet (26.8 m) tower, of four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example. Nikolaus Pevsner proposes that St Augustine's tower is older than the surrounding church towers, with a tower arch that may date to 1300 as part of a previous church building.
  
  The churchyard includes a stocks and whipping post under a canopy.
  
  