Church of St Editha
CHURCH OF ST EDITHA, AMINGTON GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197036
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Editha
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDITHA, AMINGTON GREEN
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197036
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Editha
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDITHA, AMINGTON GREEN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDITHA, AMINGTON GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 23533 04519
Details
TAMWORTH
SK20SW AMINGTON GREEN, Amington 670-1/4/2 Church of St Editha 08/02/91
GV II
Anglican church. 1864. By G.E.Street. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; tile roofs. Early Pointed style. Chancel with south organ loft and vestry; nave with gabled south aisle. Weathered plinth, sill courses and coped gables. Chancel has east triplet of double-cusped lancets under hood mould with foliate stops, pair of lancets under roundel to north; gabled organ loft has rose window under gable to east and lancet to north; lean-to vestry has 2-light square-headed window and entrance in chamfered timber frame. 2-bay nave has stepped triplets of lancets under relieving arches to north, offset gabled buttress to east and diagonal buttress to west; 3-light plate tracery west window; east gabled bell turret; 3-bay south aisle has 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery, 2-light plate-tracery west window over gabled timber-framed porch with ashlar plinth and extension to south, and inner entrance with quinquefoil arch, gabled offset buttress to left. INTERIOR: chancel has cusped arch-braced collar trusses; arches to nave and organ loft die into jambs; 2 trefoil-headed sedilia to south have central shaft with stiff leaf capital, similar credence shelf to north; shafted east window over inlaid marble panels; low coped walling to chancel arch; nave has 3-bay double-chamfered arcade on round piers and west respond cusped arch-braced collar trusses with ashlaring and wind-braces, aisle has similar roof and arch to organ loft which dies into jambs; organ loft has waggon-boarded roof. Boldly detailed parclose screen to south of chancel and similar stalls and altar table; timber pulpit with linen-fold panelling; aisle has panelled screen with open tracery upper panels to east. Stained glass to east window, 1864, by E.Burne-Jones for Morris and Co, is 'some of the finest Victorian glass in the county', also chancel north window, 1910; richly coloured aisle west window. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.61).
Listing NGR: SK2353304519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 61
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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