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St Botolph

St Botolph

Newton

Lincolnshire

C13, C14, C15, restored 1867.

Architectural Features

Tall 4 stage early C13 west tower with chamfered plinth and string courses, set back buttresses and plain parapet with angle pinnacles.

In the belfry are paired C15 trefoil headed lights with Perpendicular tracery to the heads and pointed chamfered surrounds.

In the west wall of the south aisle is a C14 2 light reticulated window with cusped ogee tracery and a quatrefoil.

The C14 north aisle has a continuously moulded and pointed doorway and 2 three light reticulated windows with cusped ogees, quatrefoils and triangular headed wave moulded surrounds.

In the east wall is a C15 2 light window with Perpendicular tracery.

The C13 chancel east window has 4 tall lights with slender intersecting tracery to the pointed head.

The C13 south chapel has a plain parapet and a 2 light reticulated window to the east with cusped ogee arches, trefoils and a triangular headed surround, and to the south are 2 repositioned C13 2 light windows with geometric tracery comprising a trilobe, trefoils and a quatrefoil, all in pointed and chamfered surrounds.

The inner door has C13 moulded and filleted reveals and C19 capitals to the moulded head.Interior: 3 bay C13 nave arcades with octagonal shafts, moulded and splayed capitals and double chamfered arches.

Early C13 tower arch with chamfered and roll moulded head and single angle shafts, one with a cushion capital.

The chancel has a C13 double piscina on the south side, now with C19 tracery and shaft, but retaining the original dogtoothed triangular surround with 3 human heads.

On the north side is an early C14 tomb recess with moulded ogee arch bedecked with ballflowers and floriate finial.

Panelled octagonal oak pulpit with ashlar base.

Plain tapering octagonal font with chamfered base and graffito 'Thomas' to the east.

Monument: In the south chapel an alabaster wall plaque with broken segmental cornice, paterae and armorial escutcheon to Mary Savile, d. 1637, bolection moulded rectangular inscription panel and moulded base with cherub flanked by scrolls.