Church of All Saints

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The Anglican Church of All Saints in Rodden, Somerset, England, was built in 1640. It is a Grade II* listed building.

History: The church was built in 1640, on the site of an earlier medieval church. Although it served only a small community, the church was built on the orders of Archbishop William Laud. He was an autocratic clergyman and sought to reduce the influence of Puritans, after which Laudianism is named. The church was dedicated to St Blaize, and served as a chapelry of Boyton, some 11 miles (18 km) to the south-east in Wiltshire, both Rodden and Boyton being estates of the Giffard family in the 13th century. The date this arrangement ended, and Rodden became a separate parish, is unclear. It is described as a chapelry in a correction note to the 1811 Census but the 1831 Census Abstract states the separation occurred in 1784. John Collinson, published in 1791, has Rodden as a chapelry of Boyton. Another source gives the creation date of Rodden ecclesiastical parish as 1802. The church was rebuilt in a Victorian restoration in the mid-19th century. The benefice was united with that of Berkley in 1964. Today the parish is part of the benefice of Beckington with Standerwick...