KEWSTOKE, a parish in the hundred of WINTERSTOKE, county of SOMERSET, 9 miles (N.W.) from Axbridge, containing 429 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £9. 12. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Paul, is in the later style of English architecture, with Norman portions. A priory of Augustine canons was founded here about 1210, by William de Courtenay, and dissolved in 1534, when its revenue was valued at £110. 18. 4.: the remains of the monastic buildings, now principalty converted into a farm house, are the chapel, refectory, and barn.