Parish Church Of All Saints

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