The Church of the Good Shepherd, and East Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Church.

The Church of the Good Shepherd, and East Boundary Railings

WRENN ID
weathered-mullion-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1987
Type
Church
Address
The Church of the Good Shepherd, and East Boundary Railings, Watery Lane, West Crewkerne
OS grid reference
ST 420 081
Coordinates
50.86987, -2.82447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Good Shepherd is an Anglican Chapel of Ease built in the late 19th century. It is constructed from cut and squared Ham stone with ashlar dressings, featuring a plain clay tiled roof adorned with beaver-tail tiles, a saw-tooth ridge, and stepped coped end gables topped with cross finials. The church has a single cell plan consisting of three bays and is not aligned on an east-west axis. It includes an east porch designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The church has a plinth with hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses. The windows are four-centre arched with incised spandrils, and there are three-light windows with transoms and square labels, with two windows on each flank wall. The porch, located in the center bay on the east side, is simple and features a bell turret that holds a single bell on a coped gable. The outer arch of the porch is four-centre hollow-moulded without a label and is flanked by a pair of wrought-iron gates with fleur-de-lys spikes on the middle and top rails.

The north gable is plain, while the south gable is rendered. A small projecting wing is located in the center of the west flank. The interior of the church is very simple, featuring an arch-braced king post roof truss with six bays, simple pews, and other fittings, including a 19th-century octagonal panelled stone font.

To the east of the porch, there is a boundary wall made of rubble with a castellated top, approximately one meter high, which runs along the south side of the church. Across the front of the church, there is a low ashlar wall with shaped coping, topped with spearpoint wrought-iron railings that have short returns to the porch and a pair of matching gates, all of which enhance the setting of the chapel.

Local climate

The Church of the Good Shepherd, and East Boundary Railings receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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