Church Of St Edward

The Church of St Edward is an Anglican parish church located on Wylye Road in Teffont, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. It is constructed of rubble stone with dressed limestone and features a tiled roof with stone slates at the eaves. The building consists of a nave and chancel under a single roof, along with a south porch. The 14th-century gabled south porch has a double chamfered pointed doorway and coped verges.

On the left side of the nave, there is a pair of lancet windows, while the right side has two pairs of lancets. The east end features diagonal buttresses and a group of three stepped cusped lancets. The north side has a pair of lancets on either side of a blocked pointed doorway. The west end also has diagonal buttresses and a double bell-niche with arched heads.

Inside, the porch has an original arch-braced collar-rafter roof and a pointed inner doorway with an ovolo-moulded arch. The nave roof has four bays with tie-beam and collar trusses, featuring chamfered tie-beams and braced collars. The floors throughout are made of flagstone. There is a blocked north doorway opposite the south door, which has the same ovolo-moulded arch.

The church contains an early 16th-century wooden traceried chancel screen, and the one-bay chancel has a plastered pointed barrel-vaulted ceiling. A pointed piscina on the south wall features an ovolo-moulded arch. The church also has a 19th-century wooden pulpit and reading desk designed in a 16th-century style, along with a 12th-century cylindrical font on an octagonal plinth located on the north side of the nave. The pews are from the 19th century.

To the left of the south door is a reset fragment of a Saxon cross with intricate interlaced carving. In the chancel, there is a limestone Gothic-style wall tablet commemorating William Lush of Deptford, who died in 1836, with an inscription noting a charitable endowment of £50 for blankets for the poor. The church served as a chapel of ease to Dinton until 1922, when it became a chapelry to Teffont Evias. It is a fine example of a simple, minimally restored village church.