KINGSBURY-EPISCOPI, a parish forming one
of the four unconnected portions which constitute the
eastern division of the hundred of KINGSBURY, county of
SOMERSET, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Langport, comprising
the tythings of Barrow, Kingsbury-Episcopi, East Lambrook,
West Lambrook with Lake, and Stembridge, and
containing 1470 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in
the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, rated in the king's books at £17 18. 1., and in
the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Chancellor
of the Cathedral Church of Wells. The church, dedicated
to St. Martin, is a stately structure, with an elegant western
tower one hundred and twenty feet high, ornamented
with eleven statues of kings, and crowned with twenty
open-worked pinnacles. The parish anciently belonged
to the Bishop of Wells, whence the adjunct to its name.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.