Church Eaton

Church Eaton
Church Eaton
Church Eaton  Church Eaton shown within Staffordshire
Population	680 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	SJ847175
Civil parish	Church Eaton
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stafford
Postcode district	ST20
Dialling code	01785
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Stone
Website	Church Eaton
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Coordinates: 52°45′26″N 2°13′18″W / 52.7573°N 2.2217°W

Church Eaton is a village and civil parish in Staffordshire some 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Stafford, 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Penkridge and 4 miles (6 km) from the county boundary with Shropshire. It is in rolling dairy farming countryside. The hamlet of Wood Eaton is northwest of the village.

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of Saint Editha ^[2] largely dates from the 12th century. It has a square west tower with a spire, a large 7-light east window of fine stained glass by C.E. Kempe depicting scenes from the life of Christ,^[3] and "the broken and repaired remains of an elaborate early 12th century font, closely related to the font at Bradley,"^[4] and that at Lilleshall, except that the font at Bradley^[5] 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.^[6]

Church Eaton also has a cricket club, which is part of the North Staffordshire south Cheshire Cricket Leagues and play in division 8.

1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 2 December 2015.
2. Image of St Editha's, Church Eaton
3. The East window, St Editha's, Church Eaton
4. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Staffordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 104, 136. ISBN 0-14-071046-9.
5. Photograph of the Norman Font in Bradley Church
6. Welcome to the Royal Oak

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