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Culbone Church, located in the village of Culbone in Somerset, is said to be the smallest church in England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parish Churches )〕 The church, dedicated to the Welsh saint Beuno, has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Images of England )〕 and the churchyard cross is Grade II *. The church is recorded in the Domesday Book. The church seats about 30 people, The chancel is , the nave and the building has a total length of .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Culbone – Kitnor )〕 Services are still held there, despite the lack of access by road. The church is probably pre-Norman in origin, with a 13th-century porch, and late-15th-century nave. It was refenestrated and reroofed around 1810 and the spirelet added in 1888. It underwent further restoration in 1928. Joan D'Arcy Cooper, psychologist, Yoga teacher, author of ''Guided Meditation and the Teaching of Jesus'',〔Cooper, J. D., Guided Meditation and the Teaching of Jesus. Salisbury: Element Books. (Reissue Edition) 30 November 1982.〕 and wife of the potter Waistel Cooper, was organist at the church and is buried in the graveyard. The graveyard also contains a war grave of a soldier of the Welsh Guards of World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2692024/RICKETTS,%20WILLIAM%20CHARLES )〕 In a television version of ''Lorna Doone'', St Beuno's was used as the location for the marriage of John Ridd at Oare Church.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/224/ )〕 ==Interior and exterior features== The nave has retained its box pews, including a Jacobean squire's pew for the now ruined Ashley Combe House. The tall proportion of the nave and the primitive bowl font suggests Anglo-Saxon origins. The east end is restored. There is a small window, carved from a single block of sandstone, outside the south wall of the chancel, with a face on top of the pillar dividing the two window lights. This is probably also Saxon.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Culbone Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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