Monday, June 05, 2006

North Stoke Church

North Stoke Church. St. Mary’s.

On Saturday the Society resitivity team undertook a resitivity survey around the outside of North Stoke church, the survey was on behalf of the University of Sussex CCE course on church archaeology recording.
A survey of the church is also being undertaken by the Society using our new total station surveying equipment. This will be carrying on over the next few days.

The results of the resitivity survey will be published in the next week or two, but early indications do not show any footprint of a much earlier church on this site.
An early buttress that had been removed at an early date did however show up, another interesting bit of information is that during research into the history of the church among very early documents ‘is that the original dedication of the church has been discovered, St.Marys.

I am sure more about the history of this church will be revealed over the next few weeks by the student’s on this course.
There are some pictures and a little about the history of this church on churches in Sussex web site. just click highlighted link.

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