LIMINGTON, a parish in the hundred of STONE,
county of SOMERSET, 1 mile (E.S.E.) from Ilchester,
containing, with the tything of Draycott, 268 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £21. 6. 5., and in the patronage of
the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains the effigy
of Sir Richard Gyverney, founder of a chantry here,
and others of the family, but the figures are much mutilated.
On a pew in the chancel is the cipher of Cardinal
Wolsey, who was sometime rector of this parish.