Church Of St Andrew

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STOKE TRISTER CP 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burnt down and this church built on a new site in 1841 (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset 1958; Unpublished historical note on Stoke Farmhouse, anon).

Listing NGR: ST7369328757