Stoke Pero Church
STOKE PERO CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174803
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke Pero Church
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE PERO CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174803
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke Pero Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOKE PERO CHURCH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE PERO CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Luccombe
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 87835 43495
Details
SS84SE LUCCOMBE CP STOKE PERO
5/58 Stoke Pero Church
22.5.69
GV II*
Parish church, dedication unknown. C13 tower, 1897 church and tower reroofed and extensively restored, restored again 1955. Three bay nave and chancel without division, north porch, west tower. Random rubble local stone, slate roofs, overhanging eaves, sprockets. Saddleback one and a half stage tower, gable ends set east-west, diagonal buttress to string course, roof extended as catslide over north-west stair turret, small window as bell opening by stair turret, Irregularly placed square opening west end. south front of nave two 2-light mullioned window to chancel, 2-light east window, north front C19 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows flanking porch, buttress at junction of nave and chancel, gabled single storey porch with plain pointed arch opening, chamfered pointed arch opening to inner door, restored C16-C17 door with arcane lettering. Interior: rendered. No chancel arch, semi-circular tower arch, unmoulded with ogee moulded impost to archivault. Late C19 open wagon roof with bosses, C19 pews incorporating some Cl7 bench ends at west end. Pulpit of old panelling with moulded cornice. Baluster font. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958; Chadwick Healey, History of the Part of West Somerset, 1901).
Listing NGR: SS8783543495
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Healey, C, The History of the Part of West Somerset, (1901)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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