St Michael And All Angels

4 stage C14 ashlar tower has clasping buttresses, plinth, chamfered string courses, frieze, embattled parapet with corner pinnacles.

In the spandrels are carvings of jousting helms with peacock devices.

In the angle to the taller C15 embattled chapel is a C19 doorway.

Nave clerestory has 3 paired C15 lights having cusped ogee heads.

The embattled north aisle was reconstructed C19 and now has 3 light windows with panel tracery, one of which is C15.

3 bay nave arcades c.1200 with circular piers and abaci, hobnailed on the north, double chamfered round arches.

The tall C15 tower arch has a continuously moulded surround and octagonal capitals.

To the south an opening to the pulpit has C19 richly moulded nodding ogee arched head.

In the south side a C19 opening matching the chancel arch and an early C13 piscina with shafted reveals and reset arched head.

Stained glass, in north chapel east window by Waites 1851, and east window by Clayton and Bell, 1874.

North east window by William Wailes, 1851, depicting Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In memory of Sir John Trollope, Bart. 6th Baronet. Died 1820.

© Julian P Guffogg

In the nave a fine brass candelabrum dated 1685, with cherub's head.

All fittings are C19, including font with marble embellishments and elaborately carved pulpit.

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© John Salmon

Monuments: In the chancel north wall a C14 arched tomb containing a full length effigy of a knight in armour with his head on a helm with S collar

feet resting on a lion, the legs were probably worked C16.

Above, the 4 centred arch has fleurons and a panelled archivolt, the ogee hood is elaborately crocketed and rises to a foliate finial, beneath which is a triangular panel of seaweed carving.

To the south wall of the chancel is an elaborate alabaster and marble sideboard tomb to Robert Manners d. 1587 and his son, Olyver, depicting the deceased kneeling opposite an altar in armour with ruffs.

A fluted frieze bearing a memorial inscription is supported on composite pillars.

On the north side, a similar wall monument to Dr. Stanton, Dean of Lincoln, showing the deceased and wife kneeling opposite with 2 female weepers.

Above are 2 semi- circular arches with an angel blowing bubbles and Time.

To Mary Bertie, d. 1678/9, a fine wall plaque with draped inscription panel surmounted by a cartouche of arms with flaming urn and gadrooned base.

Also a monument to Charles Bertie, d,1710, in a similar draped style with palm leaves and escutcheon.

In the south aisle a pair of late C18 monuments to the Pierrepoint family in the form of obelisks with urns, rectangular inscription panels, painted panels of arms beneath.