Description

TF 48 SE NORTH RESTON CHURCH LANE
3/31 Church of St. Edith
9.3.67
G.V. II*
Parish church, now closed. Cll, largely rebuilt 1868 by R. T.
Withers, with some reused early medieval material. Squared
greenstone and ironstone rubble with limestone dressings and
slate roofs. Nave with western bellcote, chancel, vestry. The
west window is of 2 lights with cusped tracery. The ashlar
bellcote has 4 lancets to the base and rises to an octagonal
roof. To the north wall is a blocked pointed doorway, a pair of
2 light pointed windows with between a blank round headed
opening. The vestry has a shouldered doorway and 2 small lights
to east. The east wall of the chancel has a 3 light pointed
window with cusped tracery. The south chancel window is of 2
lights with quatrefoil over and the south wall of the nave has a
2 light cusped window, a further blocked round headed opening and
a gabled pointed doorway. Interior. Rounded chancel arch has a
single square order and the imposts run on to form chamfered
string course. To the vestry is a trefoil headed doorway from
the chancel. All fittings are C19.

Listing NGR: TF3828483728

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548790

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