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

The position of Durston church beside the former manor house suggests a manorial origin. In or after 1170, and probably before 1176, William of Erleigh, lord of the manor, gave Durston chapel, possibly once dependent on North Petherton, as part of the endowment of Buckland priory. (fn. 1) The Hospitallers, replacing the canons at the priory, became perpetual parsons in 1189. (fn. 2)

A P Baggs and M C Siraut, ‘Durston: 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. 264-265. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/pp264-265 [accessed 23 May 2023].