St Edith

C19 clockface in carved surround to south side, second stage.

Largely rebuilt early C12 south door, three orders on nook-shafts: the outer of beasts and human figures (including some zodiacal symbols), the next of masks with trails, the next of beakhead, and the innermost of a heavily stylised beakhead.

Interior: north and south arcades of double-chamfered arches: C13 to north, C14 to south.

C12 chancel arch of three orders with nook-shafts on moulded bases.

C19 font: octagonal tub with niches under nodding and crocketed ogees, each containing the effigy of a saint.

Elaborate timber font cover in Gothic style: effigies of four evangelists alternate with those of the four doctors of the Western church under tall fretted spire with pinnacles.

Brass and iron chancel screen: frame and open arches in brass

lower section filled with foliate designs in wrought iron to each panel, the centre marked in each case by a glass bulls-eye.

This was copied from a floor in the Vatican which is itself a re-used Roman example.

Monuments: group of three to the south wall of the south aisle.

1) wall tablet with Latin inscription under a cross potent to William Hildyard, died 6th October 1632.