Badgworth, 3 m.  S.W. of Axbridge, lies a little way off the Bristol and Bridgwater road.  The church is dedicated to the saint that has given his name to Congresbury, St Congar.  It has a fair tower (with a good open parapet), which contains two pre-Reformation bells, but the interior contains little of note.  The piscina looks like E.E. with a restored drain.

Bagborough, West, 3-1/2 m.  N. of Bishop’s Lydeard station, is a parish pleasantly situated on the S.W. side of the Quantocks.  The church (St Pancras) adjoins Bagborough House, and preserves its former stoup and piscina.  There are a few carved bench ends.

Baltonsborough, a village on the Brue, 4 m.  S.W. of Glastonbury.  It possesses a 5th cent. church (St Dunstan’s) containing a few features of interest in the chancel, among them being the cornice, the piscina and aumbry, and an old chair dated 1667.  The screen is modern.  The nave retains a number of the old 15th cent. benches; to the end of one of them is hinged a seat which, when raised, projects into the aisle, perhaps to accommodate some youthful but unruly member of the congregation.  The old door and lock deserve a passing notice.

Banwell, a large village 1-1/2 m.  W. of Sandford and Banwell station, was once the site of a Saxon monastery, bestowed by Alfred upon Asser, and is now famous for its church and caves.  The place gets its name from its large pond, fed by a copious spring, though the meaning of the first syllable is obscure (perhaps from bane, ill, implying that the spring was thought to have remedial qualities).  The church has a tower with triple belfry windows, which is lofty and finished with pinnacles and spirelet.  It should be compared with Winscombe, both being spoilt by the flatness of the buttresses.  It is regarded as early Perp., and assigned to about 1380.  The figures on the W. front are the Virgin and St Gabriel; note the lilies (there should be only one, as at Winscombe).  The nave is lofty, with clerestory and plaster roof (coloured like oak); the effigy at the W. is St Andrew.  There is a very fine rood-loft (1521) with fan-tracery both in front and rear:  the present colours are believed to reproduce the original; curiously, the choir seats are outside the screen.  Note (1) the font (Norman) with unusual carving on the bowl; (2) Perp. stone pulpit, attached to one of the pillars of the arcade; (3) the seat ends and oak benches (the original width of the latter may be seen in the last pew on the S. side); (4) the brasses, three on the floor before the chancel, and another (of John Martok, succentor of Wells, and physician to Bishop King) in the vestry.  This vestry contains some old Flemish glass (brought from Belgium in 1855), depicting the story of Tobit; and there is more ancient glass belonging to the church in the E. windows of the aisles.  Originally there was only a N. aisle, and the tower buttresses can still be seen within the S. aisle.