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St Wilfrid

St Wilfrid

Egginton CP

Derbyshire

2/11 PARISH OF EGGINTON, CHURCH ROAD (South Side) Church of St Wilfrid 19.01.67 I Parish church. C1300, C15, C16, C17.

Architectural Features

Lead and plain tile roofs, stone coped gables.

Battlements, gargoyles and four plain pinnacles.

Lean-to south aisle has a west window of three plain arched lights, probably C16.

The south aisle has angle buttresses, and to the south side a C14 doorway with deeply moulded arch and hoodmould on head stops.

To the right a C16 4-light window of plain four-centred arched lights, then a C17 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window and another C16 4-light window.

Monuments: Frences Every and Dame Vere Every c1690, blank medallion with white frontal bust, the cheek propped up on the hand.

Monument to members of the Every family c1701, a Tuscan Doric columned aedicule with achievement of arms above.

Several plain C17 tablets by Hall.

Painted Royal Arms over the chancel arch.

Under the tower a C19 octagonal font.

Painted lozenge hatchments under the tower and in the south aisle.

Jacobean pulpit.

Stained glass: 2-light south window, c1888 by Cox & Buckley of London.

Considerable fragments of C13 and later glass re-set in the east window.