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St Eadburga

Leigh

Worcestershire

C13 with C14 tower.

Architectural Features

Sandstone rubble and ashlar with tile roof.

The open timber porch is probably C15.

The north wall of the nave has three C14 windows of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head.

The buttresses have offsets, except for those to each side of the eastern bay which are C12 stepped pilaster buttresses.

Between the second and third windows is a blocked doorway with Tudor-arched head.

Its east end is divided by a painted screen which incorporates C15 woodwork and has openings with traceried ogee heads.

The font appears to be Norman, although re-cut, and has chevron decoration and ropework moulding.

On the south side is the chest tomb of Edmundus Colles , with recumbent effigy, the sides carved with coats of arms, caryatids, and atlantes.

Above is a wall monument with strapwork, figures, a coat of arms, and pediment with shell.

Against the north wall is a wall monument to William and Mary Colles, with two kneeling figures within an arched opening, a shield of arms, and 11 children carved on the base.

Further west is an alabaster memorial to Sir Walter and Lady Elizabeth Devreux, erected in 1642, with recumbent effigies below a canopy supported on Ionic columns.

Above it is a large wall monument to Essex Devreux with two kneeling figures, and a child seated on a ledge.