Church Of St Editha

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