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The rural southern part of Somerset is particularly rich in church architecture, from the poetic
ruins of Glastonbury Abbey to the plain geometry of Lutyens's chapel at Brushford. Somerset's
elaborate pinnacled church towers are discussed in detail; the examples at Evercreech, Huish
Episcopi, Taunton and elsewhere are among the county's most thrilling and distinctive
architectural landmarks. Church interiors range from the unexpected delight of the traceried roof
at Weston Zoyland to the delicate 17th-century ceiling at East Brent. Elizabethan architecture
appears at its most successful at Montacute while Dunster Castle boasts splendid interior
decoration of the later 17th century. The 18th and early 19th century civic buildings of Martock,
Milborne Port, Glastonbury and Chard are notable highlights on a more modest scale.
