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St Edmund

Architectural Features

Chancel, C14 North Porch.

North wall, 2 C13 chamfered lancets, partly restored, 2 buttresses.

Nave, north wall, 2 windows, the circa 1300 eastern of 2 trefoiled lights with a trefoil in a 2 centred head, the western mainly restored of 3 trefoiled lights, trefoil over, 2 centred head.

C14 gabled north porch, timber framed, 2 centre arched doorway flanked by open lights with trefoiled ogee heads and tracery, side walls each have 6 trefoiled ogee lights with cusped spandrels, restored mullions.

North doorway, C19 chamfered 4 centred head, double vertically boarded doors, ornate hinges, C14 rear splays.

Gargoyles to cornice.

Piscina, restored C13, chamfered jambs, 2 centred head, no drain. south wall monument of Edmund Saunder, 1615, alabaster figure of a kneeling man in civil dress within a round headed recess with flanking pilasters, cornice and shield, brass under.

C19 painted prayer and commandments to reredos, C19 wooden altar rail, C19 and C20 stained glass windows.

C16 roof of 6 bays, moulded wall plates, arched braces to raised tie beams which support queen posts and arched braces to collars, struts to apex, arched braces to side purlins.

C14 moulded timber north and south door surrounds with tracery to gables, moulded wall posts, arched braces spring from these gables and support a heavy tie beam which appears to have had the centre removed to form hammerbeams.

C16 octagonal font, panelled sides with shield, foliage and pomegranate decoration, carved soffit, cinquefoiled panels to stem, moulded base.

Coloured tile and brick floors.