Summary
It has long been known that some priests kept pigeons in parish churches. In the middle ages, the right to keep these feathered friends (to make a tasty pigeon pie) was a manorial prerogative protected by the court's leet.
A church's pigeon loft is known as a columbarium, and the only one in Somerset is believed to be in the church of St Michael the Archangel in Compton Martin. Evidence that this columbarium formerly belonged to the rector of Compton Martin is provided by a document of 1606, which describes it as "a pigeon house over the chancel".See the full content of this document
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