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St. James

St. James

Frognall

Lincolnshire

TF 1409-1509 DEEPING ST. JAMES CHURCHGATE (north side) 14/70 Church of St. James 30.10.68 G.V. I Former Benedictine Priory, now Parish church, founded from Thorney Abbey in 1139, C13, C14, C15, c.1730, 1819, 1830.

Architectural Features

On the north wall of the nave a late C12 string course with zigzag and chevron moulding marks the outer wall of the original church.

One C14 window of 3 lights was partly blocked when massive stepped buttresses were added at the time the 3 large 3 light windows were inserted, all with panel tracery.

The north wall of the chancel has 2 pairs of C14 cusped ogee lights and a doorway with ogee head and hood with floriate knop.

On the south side is a 3 light C14 window with cusped ogee heads to the lights

flat hood and 2 early C13 single lights with rounded heads and shafts.

To the east wall of the south aisle a pair of early C14 3 light windows with cusped ogee and trilobe heads and geometric heads.

On the south side of the nave is a 4 light window under a wide moulded round arch and 5 pointed C15 3 light windows, all having cusped ogee tracery.

In the west wall is a further C14 3 light window with flowing tracery.

The gabled south porch, early C13, has steeply pointed outer doorway with clustered shafted reveals, annular capitals, moulded head, dogtooth hood and beast head terminals.

C14 inner door with continuously moulded surround and hood.

7 bay south arcade, late C12, with quatrefoil piers with keeled shafts to the angles, square abaci, plain capitals apart from the 2 pelleted jewelled cushion capitals to the west.

The 3 C15 north nave windows have rounded rear C13 arches with angle shafts.

In the south aisle the corbel table of the mid C12 nave can be seen.

At the east end of the south aisle is a late C13 cusped trefoil headed piscina and an aumbry.

In the east wall a further pointed headed piscina and an early C13 aumbry with hobnail hood in north wall.

Beyond is an early C13 double piscina, with mid shaft and a Tudor arched doorway.

Above are 3 fine early C13 rear arches with clustered shafts to the reveals, dogtoothing and stiff leaf capitals, all with elaborately moulded arches.

Circular Norman 12th century tub font with intersecting arches in the Priory church of Deeping St.James

Large early C12 tub font with intersecting blank arcading to the sides, with fine C18 inlaid octagonal cover with contemporary wrought iron suspension chain.

Circular Norman 12th century tub font with intersecting arches in the Priory church of Deeping St.James

© Richard Croft

Monuments.

In the chancel an early C13 recumbent effigy of a knight having dogtoothing to the sides,

a worn C14 coped effigy depicting a recumbent figure beneath a crocketed and pinnacled canopy, with decorative coverlet, feet resting on an animal.