St Edmund

Diagonal buttressed single stage embattled C14 tower with single large corner finials, remains of 3 gargoyles

topped with a C15 spire.

The buttressed north wall has 3 1666 round arched windows each with 3 round arched lights and tracery.

The east chapel with 2 pilaster buttresses each topped with single obelisk finials surmounted by single orbs has a single similar 1666 window.

The south chapel and south aisle with a further 5 similar buttresses and finials has 4 similar 1666 windows.

To the left is the 1666 porch.

The west wall with single outer similar buttresses and finials and single similar 1666 window.

3 bay C13 nave arcades with quatrefoil piers and responds, the west respond with fillet.

The colonnettes have single carved figures over.

Over each wall is a single similar smaller opening with continuous hood mould over with inner angel and outer decorative label stops.

In the north nave wall are the remains of 2 C14 cinquefoil arched openings with mouchettes under a flat arch.

Decorative C19 alabaster and ashlar pulpit further decorated with inset carving of the sermon of the mount.

C15 octagonal font, the base with single broach stops to alternate sides and the bowl with panels decorated with blind shields set into quatrefoils.

C17 style carved chair.

C17 chest with decorative carved panels.

Organ chamber and 2 south aisle windows with some glass, reputedly by Henry Giles.

Memorials in the organ chamber include to Sophia Manvers Peirrepont, 1823, reputedly by Pierre Bazzanti, a tablet surmounted by a carving of a recumbant woman with angel over.

The east and south walls have single C19 Gothick memorials.

The chancel south wall has a memorial to Evelyn Pierrepont, 1773, the tablet is surmounted by a carved kneeling figure and draped urn, probably by Flaxman.

On the north wall the memorial to Evelyn Henry Frederick Pierrepont, 1801, has over the tablet a large carved angel holding a book with urn above.

The tablet to Reverend William Saltren, 1811, is set into the wall and is surmounted by a carved figure of a seated woman reading, by Flaxman, with later cusped niche over.

The south wall of the nave has a large and fine alabaster memorial to Princess Gertrude Countesse of Kingston, 1649.

The west wall of the south aisle has a re-set brass of a standing lady, c.1385.

In the re-entrant angle of the south and west walls is a C19 memorial Gothick niche.

Contained within a spandrel of the arcade is a fine memorial to the poet Oldham, 1683.

The tablet has a surround of decoratively carved flowers and leaves with angel's head on the crown and further carved head on the apron.

Adjacent the south wall is a damaged recumbent C13 effigy with head supported by angels and feet by a dog.

There is a further damaged C14 effigy of a Knight only the head and trunk remaining.

The large fine alabaster memorial to Sir Henry Pierrepont, 1615, by John Smythson, has a recumbant figure in armour upon a tomb, the base decorated with carvings of children and shields.

A further fine alabaster tomb to Sir Henry Pierrepont, 1499, has a recumbant figure in armour with feet on a dog and head on a visor, the sides of the tomb decorated with panels decorated with cusping and plain shields.