Stokeham St Peter

Official Listing Description

The following are listed:

The church
A stone coffin in the churchyard

Church

SK 77 NE

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G.V.

STOKEHAM

MAIN STREET
(south side)

Church of St. Peter

Grade II*

Parish church. C13, C15, c1700, restored 1928. Coursed rubble with some render. Slate roof with coped east and west gables. Bellcote with 2 arches under a triangular ashlar head to west ridge and damaged cross to east ridge. Sinqle external red brick stack to north. Nave and chancel. The west wall has an arched and recessed panel containing an arched 2-light C20 Y traceried window, flanked by single buttresses. The buttressed north wall has a blocked doorway partially hidden by the stack, to the left is a single window under a flat arch, a single C13 lancet and further left a single C13 cusped lancet. All windows have chamfered surrounds. The east end, on a deep plinth with render above, has a single C15 arched 3-light window with panel tracery, cusping, hood mould and head label stops. The south chancel has a single arched window with 2 arched and cusped lights and single quatrefoil with hood mould and remnants of label stops. The south nave, with evidence of a removed 3 bay aisle arcade, has 2 c1700 2-liqht windows under flat arches and with single stone mullions. To the left, set on a plinth, is the 1928 rendered and gabled porch with single ridge cross, kneeler finials and arched doorway. There is an inner chamfered arched doorway. Interior. The north nave has a blocked arched doorway. Over the 2 south nave windows are remnants of the double chamfered arcade arches. The chancel has a cusped piscina. There is a C12 tub font. The furniture is C20. On the north chancel wall is a monument to George Brown, 1784, and a painted prayer board. There are several C18 floor slabs. In the nave is a C16 oak chest.

Stone coffin

SK 77 NE

1/69

 

G.V.

STOKEHAM

MAIN STREET
(south side)

Coffin in church-
yard of church of St.Peter,
1 metre east of the porch

Grade II

Coffin, 1 metre east of the south porch. C13. Ashlar. Single, hollow, ashlar coffin. Included for group value only.