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Church Street, FROME, BA11 6TG

The church of St George dates back to Norman times - see the tower!

This is one of the old water supplies that the village relied on for many centuries. It has been boxed in and has a wooden handle after restoration. Indeed, the story of water in Beckington has quite a tale. There were many natural sources that served the needs, with no real concerns for a small rural population. However, in 1936 the then Frome Rural District Council moved to arrange piped supplies; the locals regarded it as an unneccessary expense and declined. The council countered that without a proper supply, the village could not expand, the sewage was not being dealt with properly and local farms would not be awarded Grade A certificates for their milk. Nevertheless, the pipes were declined. Frome council then responded by refusing to build any new homes until the water supply was secured, much to the disgust of the village elders. By 1938, the impasse was overriden and the laying of a centralised water pipe network began. By 1939, there were new homes built in Clifford.

Beckington First School, which was built in 1852 is wholly maintained by Somerset Education Authority and the Church of England retains an interest in its management. The school caters for about seventy children between the ages of four and nine.

This young specimen stands in St George's church grounds. It is dedicated to the memory of a local man who fought and was lost in the Falklands War

The church has Norman roots, although it is suspected that there may have been an earlier Saxon place of worship here. In the recent past (into the twentieth century) it was known as St Gregory's. Grade I listed.

Parts of St George's church have been altered in the past, leaving some different masonry and a lone figurehead.

A look at the top of the south side: a Norman edifice with some intriguing details. The panel to the right bears the name of John Mitten and the date of 1678.

Unusually, Beckington has created a new memorial to the men of the village who died in WWII, unveiled on 12 November, 1995. It now stands close to the original memorial, dedicated principally to two men who were killed in WWI. On the new memorial are fourteen names, followed by one from the Falklands War of 1982.

The Grade I listed building dates back to the fourteenth century: it is mainly Perpendicular in style with a square Norman tower. A lot of the rest of the church is fifteenth century in date with a number of internal features dating up to the eighteenth. Unusually, there appears to be little alterations in the Victorian era, unlike so many.