CHURCH OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR

CHURCH OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, HOLLOW LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1188783
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, HOLLOW LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1188783
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, HOLLOW LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, HOLLOW LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Cheddleton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 97092 52411

Details

CHEDDLETON C.P. HOLLOW LANE SJ 9652-9752 (north side) 13/76 Church of St Edward 3.1.67 the Confessor (formerly listed as Church of St Edwards)

GV II*

Parish church. C13, C14 and C15 with additions and alterations of 1863-4 by George Gilbert Scott Junior. Red sandstone of ashlar quality; red tiled roof to all but tower and south aisle which are flat with lead invisible behind parapets. West tower, nave, north and south aisles (with porch) and chancel. Tower: of approximately 3 stages, diagonal buttresses to west, cavetto string above and below bell chamber; crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles at angles; 2-light, labelled almost-round arch bell chamber openings, small lancets to upper stage and C19 two-light west window with panel tracery over Tudor-arch labelled west door. C15 south aisle and projecting gabled porch; 3 bays, buttressed at ends and parapetted with porch set to west; 2- and 3-light pointed C19 windows; porch has a solid stone roof [perhaps the inspiration for the lychgate (q.v.)] and round-arch doorway with heavily carved C19 door. North aisle: by Scott, of 3 bays divided by 2-stage buttresses of 2-light pointed windows; lower parallel range to west of one bay. Chancel: C14, low moulded plinth, taller than nave, of 3 bays divided by 2- stage buttresses, labelled 2-light pointed windows; 4-light curvi- linear-tracery east window by Scott; ogee-headed priest door to south, adjacent to centre window. Interior: nave of 3 bays; C13 arcade to north with circular columns, octagonal abaci and double- chamfered pointed arches, C15 south arcade on octagonal columns; no chancel arch, the space is filled by C19 oak screen with pointed arch and panel tracery; nave roof C19 with tie and collar trusses bearing double purlins and exposed rafters; painted boarded vault to chancel; arch brace collared trusses to north aisle. The tower has a painted boarded canopy under the organ (situated in the tower). Piscina and sedilia: C14, ogee-headed of bays and with ball-flower decoration to intrados band and poppyhead finials. Reredos: Flemish relief of the deposition to back made into a triptych by additions of Morris & Co depicting the annunciation. Pulpit: C19, octagonal oak on a stone base. Font: C19 alabaster, octagonal, with blind tracery to sides and short, open-work ogee-shaped oak spire cover. Brass Flemish eagle lectern. Monuments: all resited on south wall of tower at high level. Fynney family: Gothic; crocketed gabled niche flanked by clustered columns on corbelled bases with carved faces. Powys: 2 monuments at-the instigation of Edward Powys, one to a friend, and to his son. Late C18 slate and marble plaques with urns over. Glass: mostly by William Morris and his group executed between 1864-69, including work by Madox Brown and Burne-Jones. The incumbent during the mid-C19 was Edward Wardle, a friend of William Morris, explaining the high but sensitive tone of the restoration work.

Listing NGR: SJ9709252411

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Legacy System number:: 274566
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.