CHEW-STOKE, a parish in the hundred of CHEW,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (W.S.W.) from Pensford,
containing 681 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £7- 3. 4.,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 .royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. W. P. Wait.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The parsonagehouse
has been converted into a work-house. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school
for the education of twenty boys, twelve of whom are
clothed, was.built by subscription in 1718, to which
various benefactions have since been made; the annual
income is £86, A girls' school also is supported
from this fund, and eight of the girls are clothed. Here
are quarries of limestone, and of a reddish granulated
stone suitable for building, in which are a few fossils
and cornua ammonis. The foundations of a cell for four
nuns, founded at St. Cross, by Elizabeth de Santa Cruce,
are still discernible.