Building record 0186100000 - STOKE HAMMOND PARISH CHURCH

Dimensions - Length 22m, Width 12m.
Plan Form - Cruciform.
Grade II+. Parish church. C14 chancel and central tower, nave and transepts with late C15 details, C15 S. porch. W. wall of nave rebuilt and church restored 1852. Greensand rubble with limestone dressings, ashlar parapets, diagonal buttresses to chancel repaired with brick. Lead roofs. Nave has much restored Perpendicular windows, 5-light to W., 3-light to N. and S. all with 4-centred heads. Moulded doorways, that to N. blocked, that to S. in gabled porch. Transepts have similar 3-light windows to N. and S. N. transept has lean-to to W. with arched doorway to lower stairs, and C19 lean-to vestry to E. Central tower is of one stage above the nave and has battlemented parapet and 2-light Decorated openings with ogee tracery. Chancel has one bay of 2-light Decorated windows, a single cusped low-side window and small moulded doorway to S., and a 3-light Perpendicular E. window all restored. Interior: main beams of nave and transept roofs are C15 but have C19 carved bosses and in the transepts, C19 carved angel corbels Tower rests on 4 double-chamfered arches, those to nave and chancel on semi- octagonal piers with moulded caps Chancel has piscina and double sedilia in ogee arches. Fittings C14 font with circular bowl on stem with 4 attached shafts; altar table dated 1619; poor box dated 1618 on turned baluster; other fittings C19. Monuments: late C17 monument to members of Disney and Wilks families on N. wall of chancel has dark grey stone inscription tablet in clunch surround of tapering Doric columns, and broken pediment with relief of kneeling figures; tablet to Mary Disney 1658; Tablet to members of Fountaine family 1650-90 in N. transept; tablet to Trimnell and Hillersdon Frank 1766 in nave. RCHM II p.282-3 (B7).
Dedicated to St Luke; B1 & B2 say St Mary? Rectors C13-C19 (B1).

The Parish Church of St Luke is built of ironstone with limestone dressings. all of the walls have plain parapets covered with cement, except for those of the chancel and the West wall of the nave, which are of modern stone. The roofs are covered with lead. There is no detail to show the date of the nave. It formerly extended to the West wall of the chancel, and traces of the SE angle are visible in the East wall of the South transept. Ca.1350, the chancel was enlarged, and the
central tower was built in the East end of the nave. The North and South transepts were possibly built at the same time as the tower, but it is more probable that they were added in the late C15th, when the walls of the nave were raised, the windows were inserted, and new roofs were added. Probably at the same time, the upper part of the tower was rebuilt
and the South porch added. In 1852, the West wall of the nave was rebuilt, and the whole building restored. The church is especially interesting on account of the development of the plan (B3).

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