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St Chad

St Chad

Stowe

Staffordshire

C12, C13 arcades and alterations to gabled south aisle, late C13 tower and east window, 1660s clerestory, 1840 lean-to north aisle, and 1862 porch, chancel roof and vestry.

Architectural Features

tile roofs, slate aisle roofs.

north side similar, gabled vestry with fishscale tiles, quatrefoil above two-light east window and gable cross, diagonal buttress and plain north door.

two-light windows with Y-tracery and signs of original C12 round-headed windows and their gables

triple-chamfered tower arch with blocked C12 window above

altar with three figures in arches on paired columns with cherubs over

C17 altar rail has turned balusters and strapwork panels with friezes of scrolls and grapes

nave has pulpit sunk into floor with canted angles and tracery and linen-fold panels

south aisle has C15 font with panelled stem and shields in quatrefoils.

Memorials: many good C18 and C19 wall tablets

chancel north monument to John and Mary Alden, d. 1655 and 1664, panel divided by armorial bearing, Doric columns and broken pediment with armorial bearing, apron and pendants

south side has monument to Elizabeth and Michael Biddulph, d. 1657, slate panel with scrolled sides and broken pediment with armorial bearing, apron with skull and swags

also monuments to Lucy Porter, d. 1786, Samuel Johnson's step-daughter and Catherine Chambers, d. 1767, the Johnson family servant, erected 1910.

South aisle has monument in form of cartouche with cherubs, armorial bearing and drops, T Hinton, d. 1757, in form of apron panel

1654 painted charity board.

Stained glass: good east window by two different hands, central lights possibly Clayton and Bell

some Arts and Crafts glass to south aisle and other C19 and C20 stained glass.