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St Edith

St Edith

Orton on the Hill

Leicestershire

Early C14 with later alterations and additions.

Architectural Features

Inside the porch is a C14 doorway with 2 orders of colonettes and much weathered foliated capitals

In the east wall of the aisle is a tall C16 window with 3 trefoil-headed lights beneath a segmental pointed arch with returned hood.

A clerestorey was raised in the C15

To the west of this window, at roof level, is a figure carved drainage spout.

Chancel: C15/C16 east window with 3 tiers of 4 cinquefoil-headed lights and nominal Perpendicular tracery beneath a depressed 4-centred arch and concave quarter-round moulded surround.

The side windows are mainly C14, the eastern ones each having 2 trefoiled ogee-headed lights and a single reticulation beneath a 2-centred arch.

the northern one is C14, the southern one C15/C16.

C15/C16 nave roof on undecorated cambered tie beams

the steeply pitched C14 roof line is visible high up on the west wall

Fixtures and fittings: Full set of C18 box pews in the nave incorporating a pulpit with a canopy

there is a second C18 pulpit at the east end of the nave.

In the south aisle is a baluster-font inscribed 'S.S. PERKINS ESQ.

1764' and along the south wall is a stone bench, formed partly of a coffin lid carved with a cross and chalice.

On the south side of the south arcade wall paintings have been revealed by the removal of some of the limewash

Monuments: Plain tombstone in the south aisle with a carving at the head end of a man on a horse, and on the foot end of a cross.

Next to it is an early C16 incised slab depicting a man and a woman with children below.

The eastern bay of the north aisle contains the C14 recumbant effigy of a Cistercian Abbot beneath a crocketed ogee canopy.

Tablets around the walls include one to Samuel Steele, died 1731, the inscription flanked by curtains and surmounted at the corners by urns spouting flame and in the centre by a trumpeting angel and a representation of the Holy Spirit.