Church Eaton
| Church Eaton | |
| Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 Church Eaton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ847175 |
| Location: | 52°45’26"N, 2°13’18"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 680 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Stafford |
| Postcode: | ST20 |
| Dialling code: | 01785 |
| Local Government | |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Stone |
| Website: | Church Eaton |
Church Eaton is a village and parish in Staffordshire, some six miles south-west of Stafford, the same distance north-west of Penkridge and four miles from the county border with Shropshire. It is in rolling dairy farming countryside. The hamlet of Wood Eaton is north-west of the village.
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of Saint Editha largely dates from the 12th century. It has a square west tower with a spire, a large seven-light east window of fine stained glass by C.E. Kempe depicting scenes from the life of Christ,[2] and "the broken and repaired remains of an elaborate early 12th-century font, closely related to the font at Bradley,"[3] and that at Lilleshall, except that the font at Bradley[4] is in much better condition. Nikolaus Pevsner states that these fonts were all made at Gnosall.
Amenities
Church Eaton has a public house, The Royal Oak.[5]
Church Eaton also has a cricket club, which is part of the North Staffordshire & south Cheshire Cricket League.
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Church Eaton) |
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121984&c=ST20+0AE&d=16&e=62&g=6464548&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1449071890828&enc=1. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- ↑ The East window, St Editha's, Church Eaton
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Staffordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071046-9.
- ↑ Photograph of the Norman Font in Bradley Church
- ↑ Welcome to the Royal Oak
