Pattingham church

Image: © Philip Halling Taken: 19 Oct 2016

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. Source: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1188526

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