MEDIEVAL
Ham hill stone was quarried at Stoke-under-Hamdon.
Sir Humphrey de Beauchamp,
lord of the Manor of Ryme (modern
Ryme Intrinseca) had
family connections there and it is like that stone from the Stoke-under-Hamdon quarry was
used to construct at least some of the
chapel which
Sir Humphrey built at
Ryme in 1292/3.
The 17th-century font at
Ryme Intrinseca is fashioned from the stone.
