Please use this link to cite this page - https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=10000.
Find out how to cite the CRSBI website here.
Only parts of the chancel to the 12thc church survive, together with the font. The present building consists of a chancel extended in the 13thc, a 13thc nave, a N aisle and S porch of 1877, and a 15thc W tower.
Noted as ‘Stoche’ in the Domesday Book. The settlement's lord was the bishop of Salisbury in 1066 and 1086, and it was valued at £8. By the 14thc the church's patronage lay with Sherborne Abbey. It was valued at £11, 13s, 4d in 1291/2.
J Newman and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Harmondsworth 1972, 399-400.
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. I: West, London 1952, 224-225.
