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St Firmin

St Firmin

Thurlby

Lincolnshire

Cll, C12, c.1200, early C13, C14, C15.

Architectural Features

Plain parapet with fleuron frieze, recessed C14 spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes.

To the belfry stage are paired 2 light C14 windows with cusped ogee heads.

The north aisle is embattled and has a single plain light and beyond the porch are 2 C15 3 light windows, one with panel tracery and a decorated buttress.

In the transept north wall is a further C15 triple light,

in the north chapel are 2 C14 2 light windows with cambered heads and cusped tracery and a pointed doorway with continuously moulded pointed surround and to the east a similar 3 light window.

The nave clerestory has 4 paired C14 cusped lights.

In the north wall of the chancel is an early C13 lancet.

In the south wall are 2 further lancets and in the south chapel are C15 lights, a paired one to the east

a triple to the south, with a single early C13 lancet, a plain light and above a 2 light transomed window.

In the south transept is a C15 3 light window to the gable, with 2 further similar windows in the south aisle wall and a plain light beyond the porch.

The gabled C13 south porch has a continuously moulded outer arch with flanking stepped buttresses and above a trefoil headed niche.

The inner door is late C12, stepped orders and nook shafts.

4 bay late C12 nave arcades having round piers scalloped and octagonal capitals, chamfered and stepped arches.

Tower arch originally Cll with chamfered imposts but late in C12 a chamfered and stepped smaller arch was inserted with shafted reveals, that to the south with a collar.

C16 tie beam roof with diagonal braces to the wall posts and through purlins.

Double chamfered C13 chancel arch with annular responds and capitals, and to the north a pointed doorway to the rood loft.

In the south wall is a late C12 dogtoothed sedilia, with beyond a pointed arch and a piscina with moulded trefoil head and paired side shafts.

C15 stained glass in south transept south window.

C19 glass - one by Baillie.

2 sets of fine C17 altar rails, in the chancel with turned vasiform balusters and knopped newels, in the north chapel also, turned with bobbin stems.

C15 oak parclose screen to south chapel having moulded principles and pierced cusped panel tracery to the lights.

C12 tub font with octagonal shaft and ribbed sides terminating in anthropomorphic capitals.

Medieval ladder in tower.

Monuments.