MATERIALS: Rubble lias, freestone dressings including oolitic limestone from Bredon Hill and red sandstone, buff limestone tower, hand-moulded brick to chancel east wall, timber-framed porch, tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: Nave and chancel are C12 with freestone pilaster strips that divide them into 3 bays each.
On the south side is the head of a former round-headed C12 window.
On the north side the chancel has 2 restored C12 round-headed windows.
INTERIOR: The simple C12 chancel arch has a stepped arch and plain imposts.
Although they may incorporate medieval work they appear to be mainly of 1848.
The polygonal panelled pulpit has Gothic panels.
The communion rail of 1639 has turned balusters, but central gates are missing.
The reredos, 1922-23 by J. Harold Sayner of Great Missenden, is panelled and has figures of SS Edmund and Wulfstan in niches on tall pedestals.
In the chancel is a neo-classical tablet with female mourner leaning on a pedestal, to William Acton by Crake of London, and a hatchment.
In the nave is a tablet to Anne Denelly A wooden war-memorial plaque has raised gold lettering and was made by the Bromsgrove Guild c1920.
There are some medieval glass fragments in the tracery lights of the south chancel window.
HISTORY: Nave and chancel belong to the C12 and retain their plan dimensions although they appear to have been heightened.
Restoration in 1848 by A.E. Perkins of Worcester, included rebuilding the present roofs, installing the present pews and pulpit, and adding the porch.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Edmund, Stoulton, is listed at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * For the extent of its surviving C12 work, with architectural detail including doorways, pilaster strips and chancel arch. * It has fixtures of interest including a C12 font, C17 communion rail, and the pews, which represent a transitional phase between Georgian box pews and benches of the ecclesiological revival.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register.