Church of St Egelwin the Martyr

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SCALFORD CHURCH STREET (North side) SK 76 24 -7724 Church of St Egelwin the 24/373 Martyr. 1.1.68

GV II*

Parish church. C13 and C15. Tower rebuilt 1639; Chancel rebuilt 1845. Restored 1858 by Millican and Smith. Chancel, S chancel chapel/organ chamber, aisled nave, S porch and W tower. Coursed ironstone rubble and ashlar, with limestone dressings, lead roof, except for Welsh slate roof to chancel. 2-bay chancel of ashlar has 4-light Perpendicular-style E window and 2.-light windows N and S with trefoil- headed lights all with hood moulds. Chancel has datestone of 1845 above E window, offset angle buttresses and offset buttresses between S windows and stone-coped E gable with kneelers and stone cross to apex. Former chancel chapel, now organ chamber, continues N aisle and has 3-light E window with intersecting tracery and 2- light window to N with 4-centred head and transom, both with hood moulds. Nave has 5-window clerestory of 3-light windows with 4-centred heads, Perpendicular tracery and hood moulds, and battlemented parapet with crocketed pinnacles to E angles. N aisle has 3-light window to NE with intersecting tracery, a 3-light window to middle of N wall with pointed trefoil-headed side lights flanking lancet-shaped central light, a 2-light window to NW with quatrefoil to head and 1-light W window with C19 Decorated-style tracery. S aisle has battlemented parapet. 3-light E and W windows with intersecting tracery and 2-light windows to S, that to SE with quatrefoil in circle to head, the other two with encircled trefoils to heads. S door has continuous hollow chamfer outermost, shafts and roll- moulded arch innermost. Large S porch, formerly 2-storied with parvise and doorway with continuous chamfer outermost, semi-circular responds innermost with moulded capitals and hood mould with label stops. 3 inches above doorway with crocketed nodding ogee canopies and continuous sill with foliage decoration. Porch is flanked by off-set buttresses to outer angles which have niches to upper section with crocketed nodding ogee canopies and pointed trefoils to gablets above. 3-stage tower has moulded W door with basket-arched head and hood mould. 3-light window above has 3 lights, Perpendicular tracery, brattished transom and hood mould. Datestone to S side below middle stage window with coat of arms and date 1639. 2- light windows to middle stage with Y tracery and Ogee-arched hood moulds. 2-light paired bell-chamber openings with brattishing transoms and hood moulds. Offset clasping buttresses, and cusped lozenge frieze to base of battlemented parapet which has gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles to angles. Interior: Triple-chamfered chancel arch, polygonal responds and capitals with stiff-leaf foliage and heads between them. Nave has 5-bay arcades with circular piers with circular abaci, semi-circular responds, double-chamfered arches, capitals with stiff-leaf foliage to N and moulded capitals to S. Former N chancel chapel has trefoil-headed piscina. Two tomb recesses in N aisle with ballflower Ornament, the outermost cut by polygonal respond of arch between aisle and chapel. S aisle has trefoil-headed piscina. Tall double-chamfered tower arch, chamfer continuous outermost polygonal responds innermost. Circular C19 alabaster and marble font with terracotta plaques. Clock mechanism of 1750, mounted in S aisle.

Monuments: Brass of 1520 with kneeling gentleman and indent for his wife. Brass plaque in chancel to Elizabeth Bardsey d.1624. Brass plaque in S aisle with coat of arms to Edward Darker d.1651. Buildings of England Leics 1984 p. 368.9.

Listing NGR: SK7629724129

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 368-9

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