Description

STOKE WAKE
ST 70 NE
9/169 Parish Church of
All Saints
GV II
Parish Church (now redundant), 1872, by G R Crickmay and T Hardy. Squared
rubble, part coursed, part brought to courses. Tiled roof, gabled to nave,
apsidal to chapel. Nave has stone coping, ashlar dressings. Plan: nave
polygonal, apsidal chancel, north aisle and south porch. Bellcot to west
nave gable. Plain ashlar lancets throughout. Square-set buttresses.
Gabled porch with 2-centred arch and continuously chamfered jambs, label
over. South door with chamfered, 2-centred head and continuously chamfered
jambs. Internally there is a 3-bay nave arcade with round piers having
carved capitals by Grassby. Chancel arch with 2-centred, moulded head and
continuous jambs. Scissor truss nave roof springing from corbels. Chancel
has boarded, ceiled roof. Tie beam roof to aisle. C19 pulpit and pews.
C15 octagonal font with quatrefoils containing shields and roses, octagonal
plinth with trefoiled head panels. "RCHM, Dorset, vol III", pp 257-8, no 1.
Newman J and Pevsner N. "The Buildings of England, Dorset", Penguin, 1972
p 400. Brocklebank J, "Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-
1880, Dovecote, 1979, p 60.

Listing NGR: ST7645906435

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521940

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)