Church Of St Radegund

The Church of St Radegund is a Grade II* listed building located on Main Street in Scruton. It dates from the 12th century, with additions from the early 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, and underwent restoration by G Fowler Jones in 1865. The church is constructed of rubblestone with ashlar detailing and features graduated stone slate roofs.

The structure includes a west tower, nave with a south porch, south and north aisles, and a chancel. The west tower, built in the 15th century, has three stages and is supported by offset diagonal buttresses leading up to the belfry. It features a clock on the second stage, a chamfered band, and paired chamfered ogee-arched lights for the belfry openings. A moulded string course with gargoyles at each corner, embattled parapets, and a pyramidal roof with a weather-vane complete the tower. The west window of the first stage is a two-light design with cusped Perpendicular tracery set in a round-headed arch with a hoodmould.

The south porch, added in 1865, is gabled and has a Norman style doorway, with a stone-coped gable topped by a cross. Inside, the south doorway from the 12th century features continuous roll moulding and rope motifs. The south aisle, also from 1865, consists of four bays, with a single round-headed window on the left and two two-light plate traceried windows with hoods on the right. The north aisle has angle buttresses but no openings, and features four round cinquefoil clerestory windows from 1865, along with stone coping and a gable cross.

The chancel, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, has three bays with offset angle buttresses at the east end and to the right of the left-hand bay. The left-hand bay contains a two-light cusped traceried flat-headed window, while the right side has two 13th-century lancets. The pointed east window, added in 1865, is geometric in style and has three lights.

Inside the church, the north arcade is from the early 13th century but has been much restored, while the south arcade dates from 1865. Both arcades consist of four bays with round piers, plain octagonal abaci, and large round arches with two slight chamfers. The chancel arch, also from 1865, is a chamfered pointed arch on shafts with leaf capitals. A notable monument under the tower commemorates Mrs Gale, dated 1720.