Church of St Egelwin the Martyr

Heritage listing

Details 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

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.