Church Of St Stephen

The following building shall be added:

COLWICH GREAT HAYWOOD SJ 92 SE 603-0/19/10005 Church of St Stephen II

Church. 1840 by T.Trubshaw; largely rebuilt 1858 by H.J.Stevens of Derby for patron the 2nd Earl of Lichfield. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone; graduated slate roofs. Nave and chancel in one with north vestry and west bellcote; separately-roofed south aisle having porches to south and to west end. Gothic Revival style: Perpendicular details. Plinth, offset buttresses. Nave and aisle lit by square-headed mullioned windows with cusped lights; traceried, pointed-arched windows to east and west gables, head- carved hoodmould stops; diamond-pane leaded lights. Shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings with apex crosses. Nave: north windows of 3, 2 and 5 lights; gabled vestry with 2-light window. Buttresses flank tall west window with panel tracery; buttressed bellcote. South aisle: windows 3,2 and 4 lights on left of gabled porch having colonettes to pointed arch. West porch has Tudor arch and parapet. 4-light east windows to aisle and chancel. Chancel also has 2 pointed windows to north with cusping and geometrical tracery. Interior: 4:1 bay Perpendicular arcade; moulded lozenge-section piers with colonettes. Ornate false hammer-beam trusses set on foliage-carved corbels which are doubled near the chancel. Octagonal stone font with traceried and quatrefoiled panels. 2 aisles with patterned and encaustic tiling. C19 oak pews - those of the Anson family (Earl of Lichfield) face north at east end of aisle. Nave has west organ chamber with Stringer organ of 1886. Monuments: 1914 alabaster cartouche near pulpit is to Thomas George, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (d 1892) and his family. Various wall monuments near Anson pews also a brass plaque in oakleaf architrave. At west end of aisle a brass plaque records the "liberality" of the 2nd Earl in'his patronage of the 1858 rebuilding.

Listing NGR: SJ9975622541