Barrow, North, a small village 2-1/2 m.  N. from Sparkford Station (G.W.R.).  The church, rebuilt 1860, is without interest, except for a very curious font of uncertain date, standing on a modern pedestal.

Barrow, South, is a village 1 m.  N. from Sparkford.  The church, a small aisleless building, contains (1) ancient bench ends; (2) piscina and aumbry in sanctuary; (3) brass to R. Morris on floor of nave.  A fragment of Norman work will be noticed over the N. door.  The font, dated 1584, has a curious E.E. look.

Barton St David, 5 m.  S.S.E. of Glastonbury, 4 m.  N.E. of Somerton, gets its name from its church, dedicated to the Welsh bishop (who was buried at Glastonbury hard by).  The plan of the church is cruciform, the tower (which is octagonal) being placed in the angle formed by the N. transept and the chancel.  The N. doorway is Norman, the arches of chancel and transepts E.E.  The chancel windows are lancets with foliated heads and interior foliations.  Note (1) the squint; (2) the piscina.  In the churchyard there is a headless cross, with the figure of a bishop in his mitre on the shaft (perhaps St David).

Barwick, a small village 1 m.  S. from Yeovil.  The church—­a rather large building for so small a place—­has the tower oddly placed at the E. end of N. aisle (cp.  E. Coker).  The N. aisle is richer and evidently later than the S. aisle.  Observe the panelling of the arches of the arcade and the external battlements.  The character of the arcade on both N. and S. is peculiar (cp.  Shepton Mallet).  The chancel has been rebuilt, but it retains the original piscina.  The church has some fine bench ends (1533).  The initials W.H. on the door of the reading-desk are said to be those of William Hope, the patron of the living early in the 16th cent.  Note (1) position of Dec. piscina in S. aisle and dwarf doorway, showing raising of floor; (2) squint and rood-loft stairs on N.; (3) square fluted font with cable moulding; (4) consecration crosses on jamb of W. door, on chancel buttresses, and on wall of S. aisle (cp.  Nempnett); (5) arched doorway into tower from chancel, made up of a sepulchral slab with incised foliated cross.

Batcombe, a small village equidistant (3 m.) from Cranmore, Evercreech, and Bruton stations, has an interesting church.  The tower, one of the finest in Somerset, is of marked individuality, combining features belonging to two distinct types.  It resembles Shepton in the arrangement of its buttresses, and Evercreech and Wrington in the character of its triple windows.  The absence of pinnacles and of superfluous ornamentation lends to it considerable dignity and impressiveness.  Note the figure of our Lord and censing angels on W. front, as at Chewton.  On exterior of church observe (1) debased S. porch; (2) crucifix on E. gable of nave.  The interior is disappointing.  The clerestory is spacious, and the roof fair, but a general sense of bareness pervades