Church of St George, Bicknoller
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The Church of St George in Bicknoller
, Somerset
, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The church is dominated by a huge elm
tree in its grounds.
The church is decorated with a collection of carved angels and nightmarish animal heads.
There is a memorial to William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, who spent his holidays in the village from 1933–44.
Bicknoller
Bicknoller is a village and civil parish on the western slopes of the Quantock Hills in the English county of Somerset.Administratively, the civil parish falls within the West Somerset local government district within the Somerset shire county, with administrative tasks shared between county,...
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The church is dominated by a huge elm
Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The dozens of species are found in temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward into Indonesia. Elms are components of many kinds of natural forests...
tree in its grounds.
The church is decorated with a collection of carved angels and nightmarish animal heads.
There is a memorial to William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, who spent his holidays in the village from 1933–44.