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St Edward

St Edward

Evenlode

Gloucestershire

C12, C14, C19 vestry and porch, general restoration by J.E.K. Cutts 1879.

Architectural Features

The tower of St Edward's church dates from around 1400.

C14 Chancel south wall

The tower of St Edward's church dates from around 1400.

© Philip Halling

Upper part of 2-light Perpendicular west window with cinquefoil headed lights and quatrefoil, carved spandrels and stopped hood.

2-light, C15 pointed-arched window with stopped hood right of tower, square ashlar chimney with octagonal capping to lean-to boiler house against west wall of south aisle.

Diagonal buttresses to C14 south aisle.

C14, two- light window right of porch with cinquefoil-headed lights, quatrefoil and stopped hood.

Pointed 2 order chancel arch, (rebuilt C14 reusing parts of former C12 arch) chevron decoration around outer order.

C14 single plain stone slab sedile right of piscina.

Depressions for miniature games of 9 men's morris carved into stone window ledge above.

Coloured tile floor to chancel

C20 red and black floor tiles to nave.

SP2229 : St Edward, King & Martyr, Evenlode: font

Octagonal font with quatrefoil panels on faces, floral bosses alternating with shields, one with 2 ragged staves set upright on chamfered undercutting.

SP2229 : St Edward, King & Martyr, Evenlode: font

© Basher Eyre

Fine C14 oak pulpit in north west corner with blind tracery and carved heads.

C19 white on black marble monuments at base of tower.

Fragment of medieval window glass in quatrefoil of window adjacent to porch. and David Verey, The Buildings of England, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds