Lights at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Over Stowey

Lights at the entrance to this church at Over Stowey, the next village over hill and dale, to Nether Stowey. The lights are quite modern (1902, Julie) but the church is not, an incumbent there in 1144.  William Morris designed work inside the church. One grave site records that Charles Davey Sellick died at aged 27 as follows: "1842  A singer of the Sanctuary. Fell Asleep. " The Sellicks has been in the area since 1645 according to a local history. Another history relates the comings and goings of parish life in the early 1800s:  the drunken villagers who sing out of tune at Christmas, the eccentric farmers, the post-chaises that fly down lanes with drunks aboard and nearly kill walkers (these days they are cyclists, I was almost taken out by on one this very road today); and the fact that young ladies walking through the mud from Nether to Over Stowey should note that they should not hold their skirts up too high because the back of a young lady's ankle is not nearly as attractive as the front.