NORTON (ST-PHILIP), a parish in the hundred
of WELLOW, county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (S. by E.)
from Bath, containing 669 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Hinton-Charterhouse
annexed, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 5.11.3.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The
church, dedicated to St. Philip and All Saints, is partly
in the later style of English architecture. There is a
place of worship for Baptists. Rachael Coles, in 1756,
bequeathed £10 per annum towards the foundation
of a school for twenty poor children.