Description

ST74NW MELLS CP
VOBSTER

3/82 Church of St Edmund

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- II

Church. 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey. Coursed and squared Doulting rubble, tile roofs with copings and cruciform finials.
Buttressed nave and chancel of 2-bays each, south porch, north vestry; Decorated style. Openings to nave of 2-lights,
each has tracery in a slightly different style; chancel has 2-light windows and a lancet, 3-light east window with
reticulated tracery. Plain interior on tile floors. Nave under hammerbeam roof, springing from foliated corbels; inner
arches to windows have foiled heads; octagonal font with an ogee headed niche to each face, wooden cover with
medievalising iron work; stone pulpit with crocketed niches. Chancel arch of 2 orders; chancel has arch braced roof
springing from foliated shafts; reredos of 7 carved stone panels; 2 Jacobean choir readers. All stained glass in C13
style.

Listing NGR: ST7045149269

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Edmund's Church, Vobster at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26310400

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