Church Of St Editha

The Church of St Editha is an Anglican church built in 1864. It was designed by G.E. Street and is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, featuring tile roofs. The church is of Early Pointed style, comprising a chancel with a south organ loft and vestry, and a nave with a gabled south aisle.

The chancel has an east triplet of double-cusped lancet windows with foliate stops under a hood mould, and a pair of lancets under a roundel to the north. The gabled organ loft features a rose window to the east and a lancet to the north, with a lean-to vestry containing a 2-light square-headed window and a chamfered timber-frame entrance. The 2-bay nave has stepped triplets of lancets to the north, with an offset gabled buttress to the east and a diagonal buttress to the west; a 3-light plate tracery west window is also present. An east gabled bell turret rises above. The 3-bay south aisle has 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery, a 2-light plate-tracery west window, and a gabled timber-framed porch with an ashlar plinth and a south extension. Within the porch is an inner entrance with a quinquefoil arch, and a gabled offset buttress to the left.

Inside, the chancel features cusped arch-braced collar trusses and arches to the nave and organ loft, which die into the jambs. There are two trefoil-headed sedilia to the south, with a central shaft and a stiff leaf capital, and a similar credence shelf to the north. The east window sits above inlaid marble panels, and low coped walling borders the chancel arch. The nave has 3-bay double-chamfered arcades on round piers, and the west respond has a cusped arch-braced collar truss. The aisle has a similar roof and an arch to the organ loft, which dies into the jambs. The organ loft has a waggon-boarded roof. A boldly detailed parclose screen is located to the south of the chancel, with matching stalls and an altar table. A timber pulpit features linen-fold panelling, and an aisle incorporates a panelled screen with open tracery upper panels to the east. Stained glass in the east window, designed in 1864 by E. Burne-Jones for Morris and Co, is described as “some of the finest Victorian glass in the county”, as is the chancel north window from 1910. The richly coloured aisle west window is also noteworthy.