Looking east through the chancel arch in St Mary the Virgin's Church

Date:: 1900-1950

Location:: St Mary's Church, Stoke Sub Hamdon, East Stoke, South Somerset, Somerset

Reference:: OP26733

Type:: Photograph (Developing Out Paper Print)

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Description

The chancel arch is 12th century in date and is decorated with billet, chevron and dogtooth ornament on the nave side. The main shafts have slots at the base for a partition or screen and are topped by ionic capitals. The smaller side shafts are decorated with chevron and fishscale patterns.

Archival History

This photograph was withdrawn from the open Red Box Collection for conservation reasons during the 2011-2012 Red Box Project.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/36 Early Photographic Print Collection: Somerset; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Contact Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Donor: Dobson

Keywords

Chancel Arch, Parish Church