St. Michaelchurch: Church
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes).

The Domesday name Michelscerca (fn. 1) and parts of the present building (fn. 2) are evidence for an 11th-century church. It was probably part of the minster parish of North Petherton and linked with an independent, perhaps pre-Conquest, manor. By the 13th century it was described as a chapel when Henry of Erleigh (d. 1272) is said to have given it to Athelney abbey. (fn. 3) There is no further evidence for Athelney’s possession, and by 1338 it was probably the ‘little church’ appropriated to Buckland priory. (fn. 4)

A P Baggs and M C Siraut, ‘St. Michaelchurch: Church’, in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), ed. R W Dunning and C R Elrington (London, 1992), pp. 317-318. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/pp317-318 [accessed 23 May 2023].