Edgerston Church

Edgerston Church is a simple gabled gothic church dating from 1838, with additions and alterations made in the late 19th century. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The windows have pointed arches, deeply chamfered reveals, and some feature geometric Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. A base course runs along the ground level. A vestry is located to the rear, distinguished by bull-faced stone margins and square reveals.

The east (entrance) elevation is symmetrical, consisting of three bays. The central bay is broader and slightly projected, featuring a roll-moulded doorcase flanked by coped buttresses, with three steps leading to a two-leaf, six-panelled door. Above the door is a three-light traceried window. Flanking this central bay are windows with lancet tracery. The east elevation features a broad, gabled bay with a three-light traceried window at the centre, and a small lancet window in the gablehead. A flush-panelled, two-leaf door is set into the outer left side, preceded by four steps. The west elevation has a two-light traceried window at its centre. To the left is a later boiler room addition with a single-pitch roof and brick stack attached to the wall. To the right is a projecting vestry with a piend roof, a single window, and a shouldered stack on the return wall to the left. The south elevation has a gabled bay on the right, topped by an ashlar bellcote; it features a plain three-light window with a small lancet window in the gablehead. A single-story section of the vestry is located to the left, with a door on the right and a window on the left. The windows are fixed, diamond-paned and leaded, while the vestry windows are timber sash and case. The grey slate roof has overhanging eaves and exposed rafters.

The interior includes a panelled timber gallery above a small, enclosed timber narthex on the east wall, supported by reeded columns. Access to the gallery is via an open stair from the north door, which likely served as the Edgerston/Rutherfurd loft. A shallow, boarded barrow-vault with transverse ribs forms the ceiling. The church contains late 19th-century, stained deal pews, a dais, and an octagonal gothic pedestal pulpit. Stained glass is present on the south side (in memory of W O Rutherford, who died in 1879) and on the west side (dated 1891). The vestry features an elongated stone fireplace.

The church is approached by square ashlar gatepiers with flat pyramidal caps, flanked by a low, stepped and coped wall with plain cast-iron railings terminating in similar piers. An adjoining rubble graveyard wall is coped with ashlar to the north and boulders to the south, with cast-iron gates and gatepiers. Notable gravestones include a tripartite wall memorial with gablet coping to the Rutherfurd family, featuring ashlar with gabled coping and gablet skewputts, with crosses before it. An elongated memorial stone commemorates F S Oliver, his wife Katherine, and their son J S Oliver, and features swept segmental-headed cresting with a relief urn and festoon, flanking piers, and downswept wings, with overall dimensions of approximately 0.5 meters high by 3 meters wide.