Stoke Trister

The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes: "There was a church at Stoke by 1225 […] The ancient parish church, dedicated to St. Andrew, stood to the north of the manor house and comprised a chancel, nave with south porch, and west tower. It had square-headed windows said to have been coeval with the whole building, suggesting a late-medieval date […] The church was demolished c. 1841 because of its dilapidated condition, small size, and inconvenient site, and was replaced by the present building. The church of St. Andrew, comprising chancel with north vestry, nave, and west tower with south porch, was designed by George Follett of Cucklington and was consecrated in 1841." The old church is not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=415943] [accessed 29 September 2009] records a 12th-century font with a 17th-century cover inside this church.