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© Mr Murray Pearson LRPS
IoE Number:
415943
Location:
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW,
STOKE TRISTER, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Murray Pearson LRPS
Date Photographed:
07 July 2004
Date listed:
25 January 1985
Date of last amendment:
25 January 1985
Grade
II
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ST72NW STOKE TRISTER CP
4/110 Church of Saint Andrew
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GV II
Parish church. 1841. Local stone cut and squared , Doulting stone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped
gables. 2-cell plan of 1-bay chancel, 3-bay nave, with West tower, South West corner porch, and small vestry North of
chancel plinth, no buttresses; 2-light 'Y'-tracery pointed arch windows with labels to North and South walls, East wall
blank; plain chamfered pointed arch to porch and inner -under tower - doorways; two small lancets in West wall of
porch. Tower of 2 stages with plinth, string courses, battlemented parapet with plain corner pinnacles; plain lancet
windows under labels with wood baffles to all faces, stage 2; also plain lancet low in west wall stage 1. Interior not
seen, but reported are C12 font C17 font with cover, and a chancel arch in pre-Reformation style. The medieval church,
located close to Stoke Farmhouse (qv) was burnt down and this church built on a new site in 1841 (Pevsner, Buildings of
England, South and West Somerset 1958; Unpublished historical note on Stoke Farmhouse, anon).