Building record 0074100000 - Church of St Faith, Whaddon Road

Dimensions - Length 27m, Width 17m.
Plan Form - Subrectangular.
Nave, 2 aisles, square W tower, chancel, 2 porches (Further Description)(B1).
NW nave pillar moulding like Longveville Abbey, France (B2).
Grade I. Parish church. C12 nave, C14 chancel, N.chapel and aisles, C15 W. tower, N. and S. porches restored 1881. Coursed rubble stone, dressed for tower, lead roofs. W. tower of 3 stages with battlemented ironstone parapet, 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber, and diagonal buttresses. W. side has door in 4-centred moulded arch and restored 2-light traceried window above . Nave has battlemented parapet, and clerestory of 3 C15 2-light cusped windows with additional single lights at W. end , that to S. a quatrefoil. Aisles have plain parapets and restored C15 Decorated windows, 3-light to N.,S., and W. of S. aisle, 4-light to E. of S. aisle and 3-light with intersecting tracery to W. of N. aisle. Doors in 2-centred archways, that to S. moulded. Gabled porches have double chamfered arches. Chancel has plain parapet, 2 C15 3-light cusped windows and door in restored tudor arch with carved spandrels. 4-light E. window and one window to S. have 4-centred heads, all chancel windows have hood-moulds with carved head stops. Carved skeleton above E. window. N. chapel has similar 3-light windows, carved corbel in E. wall, and N.E. buttress with blind traceried panel.Interior: double chamfered tower arch. Nave of 2 bays has Transitional arcade of moulded arches on round piers and half-piers with moulded and carved caps. Similar chancel arch. N.arcade has hoodmould with nailhead ornament and carved head stops. E. end of nave has arched opening to S.with carved head of knight on sill. Aisles have aumbries, cusped piscinae, and stairs to N.side of rood loft. Chancel has double chamfered arch on semi-octagonal piers, one with carved half-figure of angel, to N. chapel, 2 restored piscinae and fragments of C14 sedilia with finials and carved head. N.chapel has carved corbels and section of carved cornice. Nave and chancel have C15 roofs with moulded purlins and tie beams, and traceried spandrels, braced on stone corbels with carved heads. Nave roof has carved bosses and 2 painted trusses. Some original C15 and C16 moulded beams in aisle roofs. Fittings: C12 font with carved ornament on 8 columns; C17 font cover; C14 carved stone figure; C17 chest, bench and stools; C17 panelled screen with open baluster frieze to N. chapel. Other fittings and glass C19. RCHM II p 212-5 (PLAN)(B3-5).
Parish Church of St Faith, built of stone rubble except for the tower, which is ashlar. The walls of the nave and tower have embattled parapets, and the other walls have moulded parapets, those of the chancel being modern. The roofs are covered with lead. The church was apparently built late in the C12th, when it consisted of a chancel and a nave of the same proportions as the present nave, with North and South aisles. Early in the C14th, the chancel was rebuilt and a North chapel added to it. During the C15th, the West tower, North and South porches were added and the clerestory built. The church was restored in 1881 when a West gallery was removed. The church is interesting on account of the late C12th work in the chancel, the C14th arcades, a C14th image, and the C17th font cover(B4).
At NGR (B6).
AVDC Conservation team note that, according to the cult of St Foix, this was the most northerly place to have a church dedicated to her in the C12 (B8).

Outside the North chapel on the East wall is a C14th statue of a female saint (B10).