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Lapley

Staffordshire

C15, red and white sandstone ashlar

Architectural Features

Nave: C13 three bays with C13 style, restored, two-light pointed windows to the South

square-headed C15 two-light windows to the North.

Tower: mainly C15, of four stages with set-back buttresses of three tiers to two stages flanking blocked transept arches

string course with gargoyles at angles below and over top stage, frieze of blind quatrefoil tracery under crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles.

Chancel: C12, of three bays with pilaster buttresses, of two tiers at angles.

Restored C12 window to south and blocked C12 door to north

simple C13 Y tracery C13 window to south and five-light pointed window to east end.

INTERIOR: Restored C12 round arch on simple imposts to east of nave, with similarly restored pointed arch to Chancel.

Remains of mediaeval tiled floor adjacent to sedilia.

C13 trefoil headed piscina and arcaded pointed arched sedilia, both set on lower original floor level

font, C19, Dutch, octagonal with carved bas-relief panels

pulpit, hexagonal with carved bas-relief panels

Late C19 stained glass to south side.

MONUMENTS: Two early C19 marble and slate plaques depicting sarcophagi to north wall of chancel and incised floor tomb slab of 1500 to chancel floor

C19 figure of Virgin on corbel to east of tower

small fragment of mediaeval painting on north wall of nave in red, depicting scrolls

Furniture: Two large carved oak chests, possibly German, one dated 1793, but of late mediaeval design, both in chancel.