Church of St Hilda

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EGTON EGTON VILLAGE NZ8005-8105 (east side) 16/15 Church of St. Hilda 6.10.69 GV II Church. 1878-79. Architect E H Smales, at the expense of the Foster family. Tooled sandstone on chamfered plinth; sandstone ashlar dressings, and stone slate roof. South-west tower; 5-bay aisled nave; chancel, organ chamber and vestry. The combination of Neo-Norman and Perpendicular styles reflects the form of the earlier church originally located elsewhere in the parish. Tower: 3 stages with offset angle buttresses and stair turret to south west. Trefoil-headed opening to south, with double doors and decorative ironwork. Nave south door recessed beneath round arch with chevron and roll mouldings, on attached shafts with waterleaf capitals. Second stage south and east faces have arcades of blind round arches, with clock faces above. Paired louvred bell openings, recessed in moulded round arches on shafts with scalloped capitals, to all faces. Lombard frieze beneath saddleback roof with pierced roundels in gable ends, and cresting. Half- octagonal stair turret has chamfered rounded lights and hipped roof beneath belfry. West end: buttressed nave gable wall flanked by angle- buttressed aisle ends. Stepped 3-light west window with single light above. Each light recessed in chevron-moulded round arch on shafts with waterleaf capitals and continuous rolled hoodmoulds. Three cruciform slits in gable apex. Single unmoulded round-headed windows in aisle ends above continuous sillmould running right across west end. Coped pent roofs to aisles. Nave, north and south sides: round-headed windows in double-chamfered openings beneath semicircular hoodmoulds, separated by offset buttresses. Chancel: pointed priest's door with hoodmould on south side, to east of square-headed window of two cusped lights with flat hoodmould. Similar window further east. On north side, buttressed twin crossgables project, each with square-headed window of paired lancets over dropped sillmould. Eastern crossgable contains quatrefoil light in circular surround with semicircular hoodmould. Vestry stack rises from base of chancel roof. East end: east window of three cusped lights beneath shallow 2-centred arch and hoodmould. Continuous sillmould. Glazed quatrefoil in circular architrave in gable end, beneath continuous rounded hoodmould. Three cruciform slits above. Carved Foster arms over lintel of basement boiler-room door. All gables coped; gable crosses at east end, nave and tower. Finials to chancel crossgables. Interior. In tower porch 1901 clock commemorating Queen Victoria, given by Abraham Foster. North and south arcades of stepped round arches on cylindrical piers with high plinths, beneath continuous hoodmould. 2-centred chancel arch of two orders on attached shafts with annulets and foliate capitals. Fine reredos of Caen stone and alabaster with relief carvings and traceried panels. Octagonal piscina carved with fleurs-de- lys in cusped and crocketed niche. Elaborate font of Caen stone on marble shafts. Marble cartouche World War I memorial tablet on north aisle wall, carved with foliage, scrolls and angel heads. Baluster Arms Box made from oak from H.M.S.Victory, presented to the church in 1928. Carved Royal Arms over south door. Hammerbeam roof with embattled, moulded ties and traceried spandrels.

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