St Eata

late C13 chancel incorporating reused Roman blocks from Wroxeter

circa 1300 tower with late C15 or early C16 top stage

south porch dated 1685 restored in late C19.

Dressed red and grey sandstone including large Roman blocks with Lewis holes and carved scale work, ashlar top stage to tower

machine plain tile roofs.

Splayed base, circa 1300 clasping west buttresses up to third stage

set back to top stage with carved quatrefoil frieze corner gargoyles, parapet with truncated panelled pinnacles, and pyramidal cap with weathervane.

4-centred arched belfry openings with hollow chamfered reveals, paired trefoil-headed louvred lights and returned hoodmoulds with carved stops

C15 or early C16 to right with 3 trefoil ogee-headed lights, panelled tracery, chamfered reveals, and returned hoodmould with carved stops

C13 doorway to left with roll-moulded arch, hoodmould with carved stops

pair of C17 boarded doors dated "WH/15/CW/1685".

Gabled timber framed porch on low sandstone ashlar walls, entrance with shafts supporting brackets, carved tie beam inscribed: "SAM JEWKES THO LISTER CH. WARD", and moulded barge boards.

Small late C12 round- arched window to left with straight-sided rear arch

large C15 or early C16 window to right with 3 trefoiled ogee-headed lights, panelled tracery, chamfered reveals and hoodmould with carved stops.

south side with double chamfered doorway to left with boarded door and hoodmould with carved stops

possibly C15 single framed nave roof with arch-braced collars and sets of 3 purlins

C17 tie-beam chancel roof with collars and cambered tie beams resting on brackets

architectural fragment of carved foliage high up in north wall of nave.

Fittings include: panelled octagonal stone font dated "IS/WP/CW/1675"

C17 reading desk with fluted seat back-panels and 4 carved arched front-panels depicting scenes from The Prodigal Son (probably not English)

two C17 carved wooden panels on south wall of nave, also probably imported

C19 wooden pulpit with blank panels and carved foliated frieze

late C17 chair stalls containing some earlier work

10 hatchments to the Burton and Berwick families

vestry beneath tower contains painted Burton and Lingen family coat-of-arms, C17 pew, and probably early C19 painted benefactors board.

Stained glass: late C15 glass in east window brought from Bacton in Herefordshire in 1811 and depicting 3 figures with the kneeling family of Miles ap Harry (Parry) below

C16 glass in a north window, also from Bacton

Monuments include: inscribed alabaster slab in south-east corner, of 1524 to Edward Burton and his family of Longner Hall (q.v.), depicting figure under canopied niche and 2 shields of arms "

brass plaque on west end of south choir stalls in memory of the sons and daughters of John Calcot and his wife, of Berwick

The historian Ordericus was baptised in the church on Easter Day, April 5 1075.