Church of St Edmund

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TA 10 NE RIBY MAIN STREET

6/130 Church of St. Edmund 1-11-66 II*

Parish Church C12, C13, C15, 1868, restoration by Ferrey. Random limestone and ironstone rubble, limestone and ironstone ashlar dressings slate roofs. West tower, nave, south aisle, chancel. West door is late C13 with pointed moulded head and floriate label stops, recutin C19. Above is a 3 light C13 geometric window, again heavily recut, most of the tracery replaced, above again is a C19 sexfoil in a circular setting, cross fleury at the gable. 2 stepped buttresses at either end. West window of the south aisle is a late C13 2 light, recut in C19, with hood mould and floriate label stops matching those on the west door., North wall of nave is random rubble, a blocked C12 doorway with plain jambs and chamfered imposts, facetted arch and hood mould decorated with cable moulding with hobnails and terminating in abraded beast headed label stops. 2 C19 2 light windows in a late C13 style. North wall of north transept has a single 3 light window in a late C13 pointed opening but with C19 reticulated tracery. Central .tower of coursed squared ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Single storey above nave and aisle roofs, single windows in each side of 2 lights, C14 with cusped ogee heads and quatrefoils over moulded hood moulds with human headed label stops. Gargoyles at angles with above a C15 crenellated and pinnacled parapet. Engaged octagonal stair turret with domical roof in the angle between the north transept and the chancel. Chancel north wall is blank. East wall of chancel has stepped angle buttresses at either end and a single 1868 3 light window in the Geometric style. Chancel south wall has a central buttress with to the east a recut late C13 door with hood mould and floriate label stops. 2 windows, both 2 light, late C13 developed Y tracery, hood moulds and label stops, mostly C19 now. South wall of south transept has a 3 light reticulated window matching that to the north. The south aisle wall is C19 with 3 two light C19 windows in the Geometric style and matching the original fragments in the west wall of the south aisle. Inside a late C13 north arcade of 3 bays, octagonal piers with moulded capitals and double chamfered arches. Similar arch into the north transept at the east end of the aisle. Nave roof and corbels are C19. Crossing arches all match those of the south arcade with engaged octagonal piers, moulded capitals and double chamfered arches. The tower vault is 1868 matching the fine contemporary groined vault of the chancel. The east window records the fact that George Tomline "Rebuilt" the church in 1868. Memorials:- In the chancel are 3 good C18 hatchments and a wreathed marble urn on a pediment to William Tomline, d.1742. Above is a small marble wall plaque depicting a mourning female figure beside a Classical tomb, by P. M. Van Gelder, dated 1806, and apparently designed by the member of the Tomline family for whom it was erected. A striking marble Gothic wall plaque to the Rev. John Parkinson, d,1840, in the south aisle and a curious plaque to Richard Roadley, d,18@2, on the west nave wall depicting an urn containing bent (sorrowing) flowers. At the east end of the nave are 2 sets of early C19 regimental colours.

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