Edgerston Church

1838 with late 19th century additions and alterations. Simple gabled gothic church. Squared and snecked cream sandstone rubble; ashlar dressings. Pointed-arch windows, deeply chamfered reveals, some with geometric Y-tracery; hoodmoulds. Base course. Vestry to rear with bull-faced margins and square reveals.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3-bay. Broad slightly advanced gabled bay at centre with roll-moulded doorcase flanked by coped buttresses; 3 steps to 2-leaf 6-panelled door. 3-light traceried window above. Flanking bays with all lancet windows.

E ELEVATION: broad, gabled bay; at centre, window of 3 lancets traceried at centre with 2 lights; tiny lancet above in gablehead. 4-steps to flush-panelled 2-leaf door at outer left.

W ELEVATION: at centre, 2-light traceried window with bull-faced margins; to left, later boiler room addition with single-pitch roof and brick stack adjoined to wall; to right, projecting piend-roofed vestry with single window and shouldered stack on return wall to left.

S ELEVATION: gabled bay to right, with ashlar pyramidally capped bellcote at apex; plain 3-lancet window at centre with tiny lancet in gablehead. Single storey of vestry to left, withdoor to right and window to left.

Leaded, fixed diamond-pane windows; timber sash and case to vestry.

Grey slate roof, overhanging eaves, exposed rafters.

INTERIOR: panelled timber gallery above small enclosed timber narthex on E wall with reeded columns, approached by open stair from N door (presumably the Edgerston/Rutherfurd loft). Shallow boarded barrow-vault with transverse ribs. Late 19th century stained deal pews, dais and octagonal gothic pedestal pulpit. Stained glass to S (in memory of W O Rutherford d. 1879) and W (1891). Vestry with elongated stone fireplace.

GATEPIERS, GRAVEYARD WALL AND RAILINGS: square ashlar gatepiers with flat pyramidal caps at entrance; flanked by low stepped and coped wall with plain cast-iron railings terminated by similar piers. Adjoining rubble graveyard wall, coped with ashlar to N, boulders to S; cast-iron gates and gatepiers to graveyard.

NOTABLE GRAVESTONES: tripartite wall memorial with gablet coping to Rutherfurd family in W wall; ashlar with gabled coping and gablet skewputts; crosses stand before it. Elongated memorial stone to F S Oliver, wife Katherine and son J S Oliver, with swept segmental-headed cresting bearing relief urn and festoon, flanking piers and downswept wings (whole no more than 0.5m high by 3m wide).