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St Editha

St Editha

Polesworth

Warwickshire

Church, originally part of a Benedictine nunnery church, C11 origins

Architectural Features

Early Cl2 nave and north aisle, C14 tower has C17/C18 top

Aisle probably widened C14. chancel and north parch added and drastic restoration 1869 by G.E. Street

Old plain-tile roofs have coped gable parapets

South side has a blocked C12 Romanesque doorway of 2 orders with hood mould, originally to the cloister, set against the western end

Set high up are 2 straight-headed restored C14 windows of cusped ogee lights with pierced spandrels

Early C13 doorway, set off-centre, of 2 chamfered orders with old double-leaf doors and ironwork

Wide, low porch with moulded doorway and double-leaf doors, C12 doorway inside of 2 moulded orders

Nave has 8-bay early C11 Romanesque arcade of low narrow arches with shallow scalloped capitals and string course above, Former clerestory of small windows with splayed jambs

Tower arch has outer chamfer, and 3 inner chamfered orders with deep splay jambs, Fittings: C14 octagonal font has trefoiled blind arches and simple shafts

C14 sculpture panel set on a head corbel in the aisle

Monuments: effigy of an Abbess c.1200

set on a C15 Perpendicular tomb chest with shields in quatrefoils

Early C15 effigy of a lady, third bay