Culbone Church, reputedly the smallest in England, is pre-Norman & listed in the Doomsday book. My sons running the Somerset coast path near Porlock yesterday came upon it. No roads lead to it, only tracks through hanging oak woods at the cliffside. 1/
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The church is dedicated to St Beuno who was a C7th Welsh abbot & saint.
Inside there's only room for 30 people. Services are still held here.
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Culbone Church is hidden in steep wooded cliffsides of the Somerset-Devon border. Lorna Doone country. Indeed for the most recent adaptation of this story, Culbone rather than Oare church was used for the filming of the dramatic scene where Lorna is shot at on her wedding day.3/

There's a small ancient window carved from a single block of sandstone with a face on top of the pillar which is thought to be Saxon - as is the simple stone font.
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The pretty chancel screen is C14th while the C17th box pew at the front was built for the squires of the Lovelace family of Ashley Combe house - a house which sadly no longer exists. Only a few ruins are left. 5/

My son standing at the door of the C13th porch of Culbone church, making it look like a wendy-house.
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The cliffside woods were once the site of a large charcoal burning industry. The original burners were reputed to be a colony of lepers.
Lepers were not allowed into the village but there is a tiny leper window at the back of the church allowing them to listen to services. 7/