St Werburgh

C15 facing.

Tower: C14 of 5 stages, the top stage entirely rebuilt to the Encumbent's design in 1883

pinnacles and gargoyles at angles, crenellated parapet with fretted arcade frieze of pointed arches below.

double-chamfered pointed arches and moulded capitals on round columns, Norman to north and replica to south, pointed chancel arch

nave roof of cambered and moulded ties with painted bosses apparently C15 but dated 1698.

Pulpit: in the style of Street in stone and alabaster

Font: of coloured local alabaster and imported marble

square on 4 extended columns and built over the carved Norman font, still discernible within the present composition.

Glass: in south aisle and south-east window, medieval remains.

Lower part of tower walls covered in purpose-made glazed tiles of 1883 as a family memorial.

2 Saxon crosses are built into the west wall adjacent to the south door.

Monuments: Sir John de Hanbury died 1303, in the east of the south aisle of alabaster.

The cross-legged knight effigy is thought to be that of Sir John de Hanbury (†1303), and if so, the earliest of all English alabaster effigies in chain armour in the county, and possibly in the whole country. [[4461534]]

© Mike Searle

Ralph Adderley, died 1595, to north-east of sanctuary.

3 incised figures to top slab of Ralph and his 2 wives, moulded edge and sides with carved kneeling figures of children at the opposite end-or the sanctuary.

Sir Charles Egerton, died 1624, alabaster

a reclining figure in a moulded segmental- arch canopied niche.

Puritan bust plaques to Katherine Agard, died 1620, and her daughter, Ann Woollocke (south-west chancel), both with ruffs and steeple hats, and Dorothy Villiers, died 1665.

East corner of north aisle: Sir John Egerton, died 1662, similar to Egerton monument of 1624, but with damaged canopy.

Dressed in tunic and breeches, the effigy of Sir John Egerton (†1662) lies under a richly decorated arch. He was a staunch Royalist, and like his father before him, axe-bearer in Needwood Forest.

© Mike Searle

Also in the north aisle to the west is monument to John Wilson, died 1839.

Brass: under chancel steps, Sir John Cheyne, Rector, 1363-91.

Much worn figure with cassock, surplice, almace and cope.

There is also a low-relief carved cross plaque over the Adderley memorial.