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St Crida

Architectural Features

Slate roofs with ridge tiles and gable ends.

Plan: The C12 church may have been cruciform in plan, with nave and chancel in one and a north and south transept.

The north transept was probably rebuilt circa mid- late C15, at about the same time that the south aisle and the south porch were added.

The west tower was probably of the late C15, rebuilt in 1734.

3-light window to west of the doorway with 4-centred arched lights, recessed spandrels and square hood mould, of C15.

The chancel has east end with 4-light window, possibly of early C17, the 2 central lights taller, all with 3-centred arches, hollow-chamfered, with rounded arch and hood mould.

To north, a 3-light window with rectangular lights and chamfered mullions and slate dripstone, probably C17.

attached granite momument with illegible inscription carved around the border, dated 1688.

All the south windows are 3-light, C15 Perpendicular, with cusped lights, 4-centred arch and hood mould.

The four bays to east have a 1904 buttress and attached slate monument with stepped nowy head, to Richard Brown, 1790.

The bay to west has an inset carved stone with urn with stylised flowers, and urn with sheild.

The west end has 3-light decorated style window with 2-centered arch and hood mould, with carved stone mask set above.

The east end has C15 4-light Perpendicular window with cusped lights, Y tracery 4-centred arch and hood mould.

The outer doorway has triple shafts with carved capitals.

Stone roof with transverse vault with wall-plate and the main rib rising from corbels with primitive carved masks, panels in the bays with carved crosses.

There is a stone block by the inner doorway with a carved consecration cross.

South aisle and north transept have wagon roofs retaining C15 carved ribs and bosses and wall-plates, partly reconstructed in 1904.

The nave and chancel have 5-bay arcade with Pevsner A-type piers with carved capitals

In the east wall of the transept there is a C12 pillar piscina with chevron carving on the pillar

a trefoil hood over, which is probably later, of circa C14.

Fragment of medieval wall painting above, with Gothic script.

The north wall of the nave has a carved image bracket.

C19 carved wooden lectern and reader's desk, incorporating part of an early rood screen.

C13 stone font in south aisle, octagonal bowl in Catacleuse stone, each side with 2 blind 2-centred arches, central stem with four outer shafts.

C18 plaster putto with wings in south aisle, probably remaining from a monument.

Royal Arms of George IV in the nave, with bolection-moulded nowy-headed frame painted in faux marbre.

Monuments in chancel: monument with convex oval slate tablet, plinth and Ionic columns with broken pediment and urn, to John Hughes, 1749

a chest tomb with carved slate inscription plate and low relief shield of arms, to Thomas Denys, 1589 and Margaret, his wife, 1570

Glass: The south windows and the east window of the south aisle retain fragments of medieval glass.

The Ducys family monument in sources is not in the church.