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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHEPTON MALLET

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 840 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHEPTON MALLET , a market town in the eastern parliamentary division of Somersetshire, England, 22 M. S.W. of Bath, on the Somerset & Dorset and the
Great
  Western railways. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901), 5238. The old town extends in a narrow line along the river Sheppey, while the newer town has for its main
street
  a viaduct across the river valley. The church of St Peter and St Paul is especially noteworthy. Consisting of a chancel, clerestoried
nave
 , and aisles, it is Early English and Perpendicular in style, and contains a beautiful 13th-century oak roof of 350 panels, each with a different
design
 ; a 15th-century pulpit of carved stone; and some interesting old monuments of the Strode, Mallet and Gournay families. The market
cross
 , over 5o ft. high, and one of the finest in Somerset, was erected by Walter and Agnes Buckland in 1500. Shepton possesses a grammar school of the 17th century, and a science and art school. The once flourishing cloth and woollen trades have declined, but there are large breweries, roperies, potteries, and, in the neighbourhood,
marble
 , granite, asphalt and lime works.
Shepton, before the conquest called Sepeton, was in the possession of the abbots of Glastonbury for four hundred years, and then passed to a Norman, Roger de Courcelle. Afterwards it came into the possession of the Norman barons Malet or Mallet, one of whom was fined for rebellion in the reign of King John. From the Mallets it went to the Gournays, but in 1536 it reverted to the crown, and it is now included in the duchy of
Cornwall
 . The town received the grant of a market from
Edward
  II. Monmouth and the rebel army passed through Shepton twice in 1685, and twelve of the rebels were hanged here by Judge Jeffreys.


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