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St Edith

Monks Kirby CP

Warwickshire

C13 chancel

Architectural Features

remainder rebuilt late C14

Considerable late C15 alterations and upper part of tower

Re-roofed late C16

North chapel has large C14 image niches with elaborate canopies in east angles

Gothic brass altar rails

Octagonal stone pulpit

Painted Royal arms of Charles II, dated l660, on chancel north wall

Stained glass: east window 1869

Aisles have late C19 glass

Monuments: upper half of a defaced C14 effigy in north aisle

Both monuments are signed Mary Grant 1881

South chapel: hatchment of Sir Thomas George Skipwith, 1790

Peter Summers: Hatchments in Britain, Vol.I: Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, p.67

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