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Saint Edward

Saint Edward

Corfe Castle

Dorset

Tower C15, rest rebuilt 1860, architect T H Wyatt, incorporating some Medieval fragments.

Architectural Features

Moulded string course below this, with carved gargoyles.

West door has straight-sided arch in square frame with shields in spandrels flanked by canopied niches on carved head corbels.

North porch has pointed arched doorway with shafts of C12 character.

Chancel arcades in C13 style, with clustered Purbeck marble columns.

In north wall, re-set lancet, and C14 doorway below it (these now internal),

blocked C13 doorway in south wall.

Nave arcades with circular columns and stiff-leaf caps - one of these early C13 - re-used.

Tower arch has shafts with moulded caps, and 4 carved heads.

In tower, 2 fragments of carved C15 Purbeck marble.

Other medieval fragments loose in church.

In north chancel aisle 2 C15 inscribed wall tablets,

one of 1686.

Painted Royal Arms of Charles II over north door.

Good wall monument of 1677 west of this.

C15 octagonal font, Purbeck marble, with panelled sides. (RCHM, Monument 1. Dorset. Vol.II. Buildings of England. Dorset. Newman and Pevsner).