Witham Friary, Somerset

Description
Witham Friary, a parish, with a village and several hamlets, in Somerset, with a station on the G.W.R., 112 miles from London, at the junction of the line to Wells, and 5 SSW of Frome. It has a post office under Bath; money order office, Maiden Bradley; telegraph office, Wanstrow. Acreage, 5456; population of the civil parish, 413; of the ecclesiastical, 486. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Duke of Somerset. A Carthusian friary was built at the church by Henry II., and was given at the dissolution to R. Hopton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £100. Patron, the Duke of Somerset. The church is the ancient friary chapel, with groined roof. A western bay was added when the church was restored in 1876.