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St Edith

St Edith

Eaton-under-Heywood

Shropshire

C12 nave

Architectural Features

tower, C13 chancel with C15 alterations, restored 1868.

Plain-tile roof with fleur-de-lys ornamental ridge tiles and ashlar finial in shape of a cross.

Pyramid tile roof to tower.

West gable-end with cinquefoil roundel over Tudor-arched window with cusped lancet tracery.

5 moulded cranked bridging beams with 2 moulded joists per bay with carved bosses at the intersections.

6-bay nave roof of arch-braced collar trusses and with alternate trusses with deep swept tie beams, with the principals without tie beams terminating in restored carved figurative bosses.

Pulpit with canopy and desk, dated 1670, the pulpit ledge on carved brackets.

Set in recess is C14 wooden male effigy (1.85 metres long) reputed to be the Lord of the Manor of the period.

Unadorned bowl font with elaborately carved C19 wood cover on pully chains.

Medieval 3-bay timber-framed bell-frame with mostly half-lapped diagonal braced cross frames and braced end frames