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St Edith

St Edith

Anwick

Lincolnshire

ANWICK CHURCH LANE TF 15 SW (east side) 1/2 Church of St. Edith 1/2/67 G.V. I Parish church: Late C13, C14, restored 1859, chancel restored 1900, spire repaired after lightning strike in 1906, south aisle restored 1915, nave re-roofed 1916.

Architectural Features

C14 north aisle with chamfered plinth, gabled buttresses, coped gables and a slate roof.

To the north are 3 smaller similar windows and a late C13 doorway with engaged shafted reveals, keeled moulded head and 2 orders of dogtoothing.

The chancel has 2 tall C14 2 light windows, now with pointed and moulded heads of the 1900 restoration.

To the south is a narrow priest's door, moulded reveals and moulded pointed head, also a tall 2 light C14 window with quatrefoil to the head.

Gabled C14 south porch, gabled set back buttresses, filleted double shafted reveals, double wave moulded head.

C14 south door withslender filleted double shafted reveals, annular capitals and richly moulded head, now minus its stops.

Interior: 4 bay nave arcades, the late C13 north arcade with quatrefoil filleted shafts, hobnail annular capitals, chamfered and rolled arches with dogtoothing and human head stops.

Above the north arcade is a worn wall painting of a seated human figure.

C14 tower arch, filleted double shafted reveals, double wave moulded head.

Fittings: 1900 oak choir stalls and pulpit, C19 pitch pine pews.

In the tower a fine painted royal arms of Queen Anne dated 1708.

In the south aisle an impressive though damaged C14 limestone carving of the Virgin and Child, discovered in the blocking of the rood stair during the 1859 restoration

Plain C14 octagonal font with double chamfered plinth to roll moulded octagonal stem.

There are also 3 sections of early C12 octagonal shafts, one with a scalloped capital, perhaps from the belfry lights of an earlier tower.

Monuments: in the chancel a limestone wall plaque to Elizabeth Everingham, d. 1707, draped cartouche with cherub over and epitaph panel beneath.