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St Edward the Confessor

St Edward The Confessor

Cheddleton

Staffordshire

C15 with additions and alterations of 1863-4 by George Gilbert Scott Junior.

Architectural Features

2-light, labelled almost-round arch bell chamber openings, small lancets to upper stage and C19 two-light west window with panel tracery over Tudor-arch labelled west door.

C15 south aisle and projecting gabled porch

porch has a solid stone roof [perhaps the inspiration for the lychgate (q.v.)] and round-arch doorway with heavily carved C19 door.

Chancel: C14, low moulded plinth, taller than nave, of 3 bays divided by 2- stage buttresses, labelled 2-light pointed windows

C13 arcade to north with circular columns, octagonal abaci

double- chamfered pointed arches, C15 south arcade on octagonal columns

Piscina and sedilia: C14, ogee-headed of bays and with ball-flower decoration to intrados band and poppyhead finials.

Pulpit: C19, octagonal oak on a stone base.

Font: C19 alabaster, octagonal, with blind tracery to sides and short, open-work ogee-shaped oak spire cover.

Brass Flemish eagle lectern.

Monuments: all resited on south wall of tower at high level.

crocketed gabled niche flanked by clustered columns on corbelled bases with carved faces.

Powys: 2 monuments at-the instigation of Edward Powys, one to a friend, and to his son.

Glass: mostly by William Morris and his group executed between 1864-69, including work by Madox Brown and Burne-Jones.