St Edwold's Church, Stockwood
































St Edwold's Church
Stockwood Church.JPG
Location
Stockwood, Dorset, England
Coordinates
50°51′37″N 2°35′01″W / 50.86028°N 2.58361°W / 50.86028; -2.58361Coordinates: 50°51′37″N 2°35′01″W / 50.86028°N 2.58361°W / 50.86028; -2.58361
Built 15th century

Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Church of St Edwold
Designated 31 July 1961[1]
Reference no. 105877



St Edwold's Church, Stockwood is located in Dorset
St Edwold's Church, Stockwood


Location of St Edwold's Church in Dorset


St Edwold's Church in Stockwood, Dorset, England was rebuilt in the 15th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 23 January 1959, and was vested in the Trust on 1 March 1972.[3]


St Edwold’s Church is often described as Dorset's smallest.[4] The church sits next to a farmhouse directly under the wooded heights of Bubb Down. It is a single-celled building. The porch has the date "1636" inscribed, reflecting the fact that the church was rebuilt to some extent in the seventeenth century when a bell turret was also installed.[2] However, John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner in their Buildings of England volume describe it as "Perp, with Henry VIII side windows and a three-light E window with panel tracery," and also refer to the "delightfully naive bell-turret, round, with a cap on four stumpy columns and a big grotesque face."[5]


Inside, the church is very plainly furnished. The dedication to St Edwold (9th century) is unique in Dorset. Edwold was the brother of St Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia, and he lived as a recluse at nearby Cerne after his sibling’s death.[6] It is not entirely clear why Stockwood church is dedicated to Edwold, but Kenneth Smith's guidebook suggests that he may have also had a cell here as well as at Cerne.[7]



See also


  • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England


References









  1. ^ ab Historic England, "Parish Church of St Edwold, Stockwood (1155008)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2013.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ ab St Edwold's Church, Stockwood, Dorset, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 2 April 2011


  3. ^ Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, pp. 9–10, retrieved 2 April 2011


  4. ^ Kinross, John (2003). Discovering England's smallest churches. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 39–40. ISBN 1-84212-728-4.


  5. ^ Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1972). The Buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 399. ISBN 0-14-071044-2.


  6. ^ "St Edwold". Find a grave. Retrieved 19 October 2010.


  7. ^ Smith, Kenneth (1995). St. Edwold's Church, Stockwood, Dorset. London: Churches Conservation Trust.









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