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St Edmund

St Edmund

Egleton

Rutland

SK 80 NE EGLETON CHURCH ROAD 7/24 Church of St. Edmund 14.6.54 I Small parish church, basically Norman though enlarged and subsequently reduced again in size later.

Architectural Features

In the west wall a C14 traceried window with hoodmould and corbel heads survives.

C14 south porch with ogee arched doorway and a worn sundial above it.

North side of nave is buttressed and shows early C14 arcade infilled with ashlar.

The south door is C12, exuberantly and copiously carved, basket work and intolace to the shafts, decorated capitals and abaci and a very lively and richly carved tynpanum, within an arch supported on two beasts heads where 2 winged creatures support a wheel-like emblem with 6 petal-like spokes.

South windows are large, C15, with double ranks of foiled lights.

North wall has 3-light C15 windows in the blocking of the arcade, and 4 clerestory windows above, in angular surrounds.

Between the windows, crudely carved grotesques represent the corbels of the original roof, beasts and human figures.

Door to rood, and squint survive in east wall of nave, and over the chancel arch are painted the arms of George III and a single surviving figure (Moses or Aaron?).

Chancel windows are large and C15, those on north differing from those on south, and from each other.

East window contains stained glass of 1875.

The C13 font is square on central

4 corner shafts, C11 chamfered.

Against the blocked west tower opening, part of a C15 wood screen survives with paired lights, an ogee arched doorway, and traceried panels.