St Thomas à Becket Church, Pensford, Medieval church building in Pensford, England.
St Thomas à Becket Church is a medieval church in Pensford, a village in Somerset, England. It has a three-stage western tower with buttresses at its base and a polygonal stair turret on the southeast corner.
The church was founded in 1341, and its west tower and ribbed vault date from that original construction. Over the centuries the building went through several changes before flooding in 1968 led to its conversion into a private home.
Inside, you can see a baptismal font from the 1400s decorated with roses and four-leaf clover patterns, alongside a pulpit from the Jacobean era. These objects tell the story of how the church was used and adorned across different time periods.
The church stands near Old Road in Pensford, and parking can be found at the Village Hall car park on Publow Road. Since the building is now a private home, the interior is not open to the public, so only the exterior can be seen from the outside.
After the 1968 flood conversion, the building was featured in the BBC program Restoration Home, which documented how a former place of worship became a private residence. A 15th-century baptismal font decorated with roses and four-leaf clover patterns and a Jacobean pulpit are still inside, now part of a domestic space.
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