Church of St John the Baptist, Midsomer Norton

The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England, is a Grade II* listed building.

A deed of surrender was signed by the prior John Ramsay in 1539 after which Henry VIII bestowed Norton on his Royal Foundation at Oxford.

[4] The Midsomer Norton Knight is a 13th or 14th century tomb effigy carving which may be the figure of one of the Gourney or Warknell family.

[8] By the beginning of the 19th century the church had fallen into a state of disrepair and major rebuilding and expansion work in Gothic Revival style was carried out under the direction of the Bath architect John Pinch in 1830–1831,[3] at a cost of £2,829.

[11] Some controversy arose when it was revealed that proposals to attach a 21 feet (6.4 m) mobile phone mast on the tower were under consideration to help fund the restoration work.

The mining disaster memorial in the churchyard