2016
SO8299 : Pattingham church
taken 7 years ago, near to Pattingham, Staffordshire, England
Pattingham church
Pattingham church is dedicated to St Chad and dates from the 12th century though it was restored in 1885. The church is Grade II* listed.
Historic England description
Parish Church. C12, C13 and C14, restored and added to in 1865. Ashlar; clay tile roofs with raised verges, S. aisle roof leaded; 3 bay chancel; 2 bay nave; north and south aisles; west tower with diagonal buttresses and stone spire; north and south porch. C13 Chancel with lancet windows including 2 tall lights to east end; south aisle has 2 and 3 light windows with C19 reticulated tracery and a crenellated parapet; gabled s. porch with pointed doorway and hood mould, flanked by colonettes; clerestorey windows of 2 cusped lights beneath a square head. C19 north aisle has windows with Geometric tracery and a gabled porch. All bay divisions and corners of Church are buttressed. C14 West tower: 3 stages marked by strings; restored W, doorway; restored W, window with cusped intersecting tracery; belfry openings of 2 lights with cusped Y-tracery; parapet string to crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles and a second tier of pinnacles attached to spire. Interior: 2 C12 cylindrical piers to round arch nave arcade; aisles clasp the tower; tower arches to east, north and south with continuous chamfers. Fittings: small fluted octagonal font with minimal leaf decoration, probably c1660; trefoil headed sedilia and piscina.
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