STOKE CHURCH. p. 89.

The parish church of Stoke Damerel is some distance from the town, and therefore well chosen as the sepulchre of the dead. It is not known at what period or by whom this church was built; but it seems originally to have consisted of one aisle only, and a tower of handsome workmanship. The subsequent increase of the inhabitants occasioned a second aisle to be erected some years after the beinning [sic] of the last century; and, about 1750, a third aisle was built from the same cause. By these additions, what was at first the breadth has now become the length of the building. It is conveniently fitted in the interior, and its walls are covered with many monuments. At the west side of the church is a spacious gallery, furnished with an organ. In the register, which commences 1595, is the following:-"Bamfyld Moore Carew and Mary Gray were marrd. Xber 29, 1733."

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