Pawlett is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6 km) north of Bridgwater, in the English county of Somerset.

During World War II it was the site of an experimental research station into anti-barrage balloon warfare, where experiments were performed to examine ways to use cable cutting devices on the wings of aircraft to sever the cable on which the balloon was flown and thus allow the aircraft to continue on a mission unimpeded.

A survey in 2003 recorded an early system of flood banks in the "Hams" around the village which may have originated in the Roman or Saxon periods.

[3] The Pawlett Hams form part of the Bridgwater Bay Site of Special Scientific Interest.

[citation needed] The village lies on a bend of the River Parrett near to its mouth and had a landing place, called Pawlett pill, by the 15th century.

[6] In the 19th century Pawlett had a jury of sewers to view rhynes and ditches, and by 1936 the parish had its own water board to supervise drainage and freshwater irrigation of the Hams.

A village school, supported by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was established in the late 18th century.

[8] During the Second World War defences were constructed around Pawlett as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II; nearby Pawlett Hill was a defended locality on the Taunton Stop Line, where the defences mainly comprise a number of pillboxes.

The south doorway arch features three bands of decoration: lozenges, zigzags, and a biting beasts motif on the outer ring.

The 20th-century north window shows Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat.