Church Of St Edith

The Church of St Edith is a Grade I listed building located on the west side of Worthenbury Road in Shocklach. The church features a south wall of the nave and a south doorway dating from the mid-12th century, a north wall of the nave likely from the 13th century, and a chancel from the 15th century. The west wall of the nave was restored and altered in the 17th century to create a baptistry between two deep buttresses. It is constructed of red sandstone in squarish blocks and has a grey slate roof.

The church includes a nave, chancel, north vestry (rebuilt in 1926), a baptistry, and a west bellcote. The nave has a south doorway with a nailed, boarded shaped oak door set in a round arch with three orders of decoration (chevron, cable, chevron) on square piers with weathered responds, along with two badly weathered corbel heads. There is a blocked north doorway that has been converted into a window, and a window with two ogee-headed lights on both the south and north sides. The small west baptistry has a lean-to slate roof and features a small inserted one-light window, with an additional west window above its roof. The bellcote is a simple two-bell structure made of stone.

The chancel has a three-light east window with simple reticulated tracery and a cross finial on the east gable of the nave. Inside, the nave and chancel walls, as well as the jambs of the east window, are battered, which is said to symbolize the Ark. The nave features a curved plaster ceiling from the 18th century, which is plain except for recessed plaster bosses. There is a medieval round chancel arch that may predate the current chancel roof, which intersects it, and an arch-braced truss in the chancel.

The church contains a 15th-century seven-sided font with restored carving on the bowl, a plain oak pulpit from 1687 with brass nails on the front, and 18th-century turned altar rails of oak. The royal arms from 1760 and the Puleston hatchment are displayed on the west wall of the nave. A dated inscription on the vestry doorway notes the year 1926. Additionally, a pane in the east window is scratched with the inscription: "I, Robert Aldersey, was here on 1st day of October 1756 along with John Massie and Mr Derbyshire. The roads were so bad that we were in danger of our lives." There is also a mounted knight, possibly from the 17th century, carved on a stone in the north wall of the nave. The simple Norman work in this church is unique in Cheshire.