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St Cuthbert

Albrighton

Shropshire

Early C14 chancel, nave c.1635

Architectural Features

west tower (on site of C15 tower), north aisle and south porch added by John Norton in the restoration of 1879-80.

embattled parapet with 4 winged gargoyles, quatrefoil frieze below, brass weathercock.

Nave, plinth and buttresses, 3 elementary 2-light Perpendicular windows under hoodmoulds probably of c.1630-40

at the east end are the foundations of what was probably a small transept, taken down when the nave was rebuilt in 1635.

intersecting tracery to east window , other windows also contemporary, 2 cusped lights with spherical triangles above, all have hoodmoulds of scroll type with crudely carved faces as label stops, the west window in the south wall also has a transom and low-side window beneath

priest's door, double chamfered pointed arch, again with hoodmould and crudely carved faces as label stops.

A stone bowl (possibly a medieval font) with carved leaf decoration is situated by the buttress at the east end of the nave.

magnificent double hammer beam roof with wind braces and grotesque heads to the highly decorated carved wall post brackets, inscription on tie beam at west end "Thomas Brigg, Carpenter 1635".

Chancel arch with stiff leaf foliage carving on the capitals, 1879, low stone screen with cast iron rail, 1897

the trussed rafter roof to the chancel is probably medieval

restored early C14 piscina with credence shelf, aumbry on north side has C19 brass hinged wooden door

stained glass in east window 1885

fragments of medieval (C15?) glass in east window of north wall and, in the window to the west, the fine C14 glass includes figures of the Virgin and Christ, probably from a Coronation of the Virgin, also armorial shields.

Font, pulpit and all the fittings are late C19 except the Perpendicular bench ends in the north aisle

Monuments.

Brass plate on south chancel wall to John Chapman

Probably.founded between 1085 and 1094 by Roger de Montgomery, the advowson of the church belonged to Shrewsbury Abbey until the Dissolution.