Church House Church Of St Edmund

THURLASTON CHURCH LANE SP47SE (South side) 2/106 Church of St. Edmund and 06/10/60 Church House (Formerly listed as Church) - II Church and attached house. Built as a chapel-school, to be used as a school during the week and a church on Sunday, with schoolmaster's house attached. 1849. Designed by William Butterfield. Flemish bond brick. Tile roofs have ridge cresting; house has brick internal stack to rear. Chancel, nave, north vestry and west tower forming house. Simple Gothic Revival style. One-bay chancel, 3-bay nave. House is one-unit plan. 3 storeys; one-window range. Chancel has simple plinth and tile-coped diagonal buttresses of 2 offsets. 3-light east window has Gothic tracery. Limestone tracery throughout. South side has small wooden window. Small lean-to vestry has chamfered straight-headed east window. Nave roof sweeps down lower. Buttresses have one offset. South-west porch has chamfered segmental-pointed arch. Sides have open 5-light wooden openings. Segmental pointed double-leaf plank doors inside. Two 4-light windows of trefoiled lancets. North side has one window. Outshut to western part. Tower has wood cross windows with brick segmental arches. Pyramid roof has arched wood bellcote with steep pyramid roof. 2-storey range set back on left has segmental-pointed plank door. Hipped roof. Interior of church is plastered, but with red brick gables. Chancel has segmental arched vestry door. Chamfered brick segmental-pointed chancel arch. Chancel and nave have arched brace roofs; nave also has king posts. Windows have run-out chamfered wood lintel. Fittings: stone font has shaft of quatrefoil section with chevron moulding. Quartered bowl with lozenge moulding. Simple chamfered benches, probably original. Mid/late C20 panelling and pulpit. The church is actually orientated north-south. It is an interesting example of a distinctively Victorian building type, which was then 'new in idea and practice'. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, pp.433 and 531; Paul Thompson: William Butterfield, pp.93, 110, 114, 178, 179, 181, 217, 429).

Listing NGR: SP4688870922