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St Wilfrid

St Wilfrid

Screveton

Nottinghamshire

West tower C15, altered late C16.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs with coped gables, chamfered plinths and eaves.

To west, C16 triple lancet in chamfered square headed reveal with hood mould.

North aisle, late C13, restored, 3 bays, has sill band and coped gables with kneelers.

Chancel, C14, restored.

South side has buttress, 2 setoffs, flanked by single C13 style lancets.

South side has, to east, 2 C19 double lancets in C16 style with cusped ogee heads and square headed reveals.

West end has single square headed late C15 lancet.

Inner south doorway, C13, with hood mould and mask stops.

Nave arcades, early C13, 3 bays, have each 2 round piers and responds with moulded bases and capita s.

Tower arch, C13, double chamfered and rebated, with half-round shafts and moulded capitals.

Tower chamber has part of C12 traceried panel with figures below west window.

East window in use as niche containing C20 figure.

South side has to east, restored C14 piscina with leaf carving.

East window has stained glass, 1896.

Chancel arch, C13, restored, double chamfered and rebated, with half round shafts, moulded capitals, hood mould and mask stops.

Chancel north side has to left, C14 opening with keeled responds and double chamfered head.

Stained glass 1884.

2 windows with stained glass, early C20.

Norman font c1170 in St.Wilfred's church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3735660

Fittings include font c.1170, with interlaced round headed arcading and round shafts.

Norman font c1170 in St.Wilfred's church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3735660

© Richard Croft

C15 parish chest.

Misericord, C15.

Panelled oak pulpit, wooden lectern, chamfered panelled benches, all C19.

Monuments in tower chamber include alabaster chest tomb to Richard Whalley, 3 wives and 23 children.

2 fragments of Anglo Saxon tomb slab and cross shaft.

Ornate Baroque wall monument to Walter Penistone Whalley, 1680, with Latin inscribed panel in Classical surround with cornice, crest and Arms.

Baroque style marble tablet to Margaret Whalley, 1675, with Latin inscribed panel with draped apron, skull, shouldered ogee hood and Arms.

Carved Royal Arms, Charles II, 1684.