Description

SJ 45 SW CHURCH SHOCKLACH C.P. WORTHENBURY ROAD
West Side

2/11 Church of St Edith

1/3/67

GV I

Church, south wall of nave and south doorway mid C12; north wall of
nave probably C13; chancel C15; west wall of nave restored and altered
to provide baptistry between 2 deep buttresses C17. Red sandstone in
squarish blocks with grey slate roof. Nave, chancel, north vestry
(rebuilt 1926), baptistry and west bellcote. Nave has south doorway
with nailed, boarded shaped oak door in opening with round arch of 3
orders (chevron:cable:chevron decoration) on square piers with
weathered responds and with 2 badly weathered corbel heads, blocked
north doorway (converted to a window), I window of 2 ogee-headed
lights to south and north side, small west baptistry with leanto roof
of slate has a small inserted 1-light window, with inserted west
window above its roof; simple 2-bell open bellcote of stone. Chancel
has 3-light east window with simple reticulated tracery. Cross finial
on east gable of nave.
Interior: Internally the nave and chancel walls (and jambs of east
window) are battered, said to symbolise the Ark. C18 curved plaster
ceiling to nave, plain but for recessed plaster bosses. Medieval
round chancel arch, perhaps pre-dating the present chancel roof which
intersects it. Arch-braced truss to chancel. C15 7-sided font
(carving on bowl restored). Plain pulpit of oak, 1687 in brass nails
on front. C18 turned altar rails of oak. Royal arms (1760) and
Puleston hatchment on W wall of nave. Dated inscription on vestry
doorway (1926). On a pane of the east window is scratched: "I, Robert
Aldersey, was here on 1st day of October 1756 along with John Massie
and Mr Derbyshire. The roads were so bad that we were in danger of
our lives". Mounted knight (C17?) carved on stone in north wall of
nave (west). The simple Norman work in this church is unique in
Cheshire.

Listing NGR: SJ4318050181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Edith's Church, Shocklach at Wikipedia
• St Edith's Church, Shocklach official website
• Wikidata Q7592992

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)