The first volume appeared in 1908, with 126 plates from photographs taken by himself, of rood screens, pulpits, fonts, bench ends, monuments, bells, and the most noteworthy objects of interest existing in each of the churches described by him.
with 112 plates, making a most interesting and valuable contribution to the literature of the subject, with 400 illustrations in all, and describing 264 of the churches of Devon.
[1] A fervent churchman, Stabb was Treasurer of the Torquay Branch of the English Church Union, a member of the Guild of All Souls and of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament.
[1] "Mr. Stabb was of a naturally quiet and retiring disposition and most generous to the poor and afflicted, irrespective of creed, by whom he will be greatly missed".
He was buried in the Torquay Cemetery on 6 August 1917, a service at All Saints' Church, Babbacombe, preceding the funeral which was attended by numerous friends.