photo: Peter Barnett - 2000
Parish Church. 1890-1891, the tower built 1899.
Designated by Charles Lynam. Red and blue brick
with ashlar dressings with slate roofs. Decorated style, with
west tower, nave with aisles and clerestory, chancel with south
chapel and north vestry.
West tower of 4 unequal stages with angle
buttresses and stair turret. Paired shouldered west doors in a
single stone archway with low relief figure of Christ in the
tympanum. 3-light Decorated window over, and paired bell chamber
lights. White brick arcade beneath embattled parapet. Coped
gabled porch to south, and aisle of 5 bays divided by gableted
buttresses, with 3-light windows. Paired 2-light windows in
clerestory. South chancel chapel of 3 bays, with chancel
clerestory above. Ornate east window to south chapel with
cusping to hood mould. East window of chancel of 5-lights, with
a small window over. North aisle similar to south, with vestry
to the east, running at right angles to the main axis of the
church.
Inside, 6-bay arcade with alternating octagonal
and cylindrical shafts with foliate capitals. Queen post roof
with traceried panelling. Wide chancel arch carried on corbels,
with niches to each side; the chancel faced with stone. Carved
reredos, wood screen and pulpit. Stained glass windows in the
north aisle, 1902.
(The Victoria History of the Counties of
England: RB.Pugh: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-)
photo:
© Mr
Clive Shenton - April 2006
