Church of St Mary & All Saints, Broomfield
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The Church of St Mary & All Saints in Broomfield
, Somerset
, England was built in the 15th and 16th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The church contains the laboratory table of Andrew Crosse
, of the nearby Fyne Court
on which he carried out electrical experiments and an obelisk
in his memory is in the churchyard.
Broomfield, Somerset
Broomfield is a village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England, situated about five miles north of Taunton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 224....
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England was built in the 15th and 16th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The church contains the laboratory table of Andrew Crosse
Andrew Crosse
Andrew Crosse was a British amateur scientist who was born and died at Fyne Court, Broomfield, Somerset. Crosse was an early pioneer and experimenter in the use of electricity and one of the last of the 'gentlemen scientists'...
, of the nearby Fyne Court
Fyne Court
Fyne Court is a National Trust-owned nature reserve and visitor centre in Broomfield, Somerset, England.The nature reserve is set in parkland which was originally the pleasure grounds of a large house belonging to pioneer 19th-century electrician, Andrew Crosse, whose family had owned the house...
on which he carried out electrical experiments and an obelisk
Obelisk
An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top, and is said to resemble a petrified ray of the sun-disk. A pair of obelisks usually stood in front of a pylon...
in his memory is in the churchyard.