Stoke Pero Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A Medieval Church.

Stoke Pero Church

WRENN ID
low-basalt-sunrise
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Stoke Pero Church, Luccombe, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 878 434
Coordinates
51.17965, -3.60608
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stoke Pero Church is a parish church with an unknown dedication, featuring a 13th-century tower. The church and tower were reroofed and extensively restored in 1897, with further restoration in 1955. The structure consists of a three-bay nave and chancel that are not divided, a north porch, and a west tower. It is built from random rubble local stone and has slate roofs with overhanging eaves and sprockets. The saddleback tower has one and a half stages, with gable ends set east-west and a diagonal buttress at the string course. The roof extends as a catslide over the north-west stair turret, which has a small window serving as a bell opening. The west end features an irregularly placed square opening.

On the south front of the nave, there are two 2-light mullioned windows leading to the chancel and a 2-light east window. The north front includes 19th-century 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows flanking the porch, with a buttress at the junction of the nave and chancel. The gabled single-storey porch has a plain pointed arch opening, and the inner door features a chamfered pointed arch opening with a restored 16th to 17th-century door that has arcane lettering.

Inside, the church is rendered and lacks a chancel arch, featuring a semi-circular tower arch that is unmoulded with an ogee moulded impost to the archivault. The late 19th-century open wagon roof has bosses, and there are 19th-century pews that incorporate some 17th-century bench ends at the west end. The pulpit is made of old panelling with a moulded cornice, and there is a baluster font.

Local climate

Stoke Pero Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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