
Okeover
Staffordshire
Early C14, restored 1856-8 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott.
shaped tile roof with plain tile bands and moulded coped verges.
C15 West window of 2 cinquefoil-headed lights and central mullion under a 4-centred arch, niche above window partly obscured by plant growth at time of resurvey
nave and chancel have roll and fillet moulded parapet string to moulded coped parapet, foliated hollow below string and gargoyles at intervals.
Fittings: Mid-to-late C19 font, pedestal surrounded by marble alcoves with naturalistic foliated capi- tals, bowl has a quatrefoil recess in each side with foliage decoration
rood screen dated 1855 by Scott, 3 open work panels to each side of central ogee arch, elaborately carved with foliage
choir stalls by Scott carved with foliage
wooden pulpit mid-to-late C19 with stone base and steps, ornately carved with foliage and twisted colonettes with foliated capitals.
Monuments: Palimpsest brass originally commemorating William Lord Zouche and Alice (Seymour) his wife, with another wife and has been altered to a memorial for Sir Humphrey Okeover, esq.
Marble memorial to Leak and Mary Okeover died 1765 and 1764 by Wilton, surmounted by an angel holding a wreath in one hand and a torch in the other and resting on an urn with the superimposed profiles of a man and woman on the base.
Stained glass: Some C14 glass in east window