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St Mary

St Mary

North Somercotes

Lincolnshire

Late C12, C13, C14, C17, heavily restored in C19.

Architectural Features

C12 west tower, refurbished in C14, heavily restored in C19.

C19 pointed west window with 3 cusped pointed lights, C14 style tracery, hood mould with grotesque head label stops.

Moulded eaves with corner gargoyles.

Broad parapet, Thickly rendered north aisle with C14 cusped oculus in west end.

Late C14 pointed doorway to east with moulded head and jambs in one and plank door.

Low clerestory with 2 C14 two light mullion windows.

North side of chancel thickly rendered with outline of pointed head of blocked C12 doorway.

South side of chancel with thick render, blocked C13 doorway to east with sharply pointed head, chamfered surround in one, moulded imposts and hood mould.

East end of rendered south aisle with C14 window with four centred head, 3 C19 cusped ogee headed lights and hood mould.

C14 gabled porch with C14 pointed doorway with moulded head and jambs in one.

Porch interior with C14 south doorway with pointed double chamfered head with raised keystone, double chamfered jambs with richly foliate impost bands, C17 plank door.

C14 interior tower arch with tall, pointed, double chamfered head dying into rectangular jambs chamfered towards east.

5 bay north and south arcades, 2 late C12 bays to west on each side with double chamfered heads, high plinths, round piers with plain moulded capitals, western responds with large corbel heads.

3 C14 bays to east on each side with double chamfered, pointed heads, high plinths, octagonal piers and plain moulded capitals with moulded corbel eastern responds.

Early C13 chancel arch restored in C19, keeled responds, plain moulded capitals, double chamfered head.

Pointed blocked C13 doorways in north and south chancel walls, that to north with chamfered head and jambs in one.

Corbelled shelf on north wall re-using C14 impost with human head and flower head banded decoration.

2 C15 chairs and 2 pews, all with poppy head bench ends.

C15 font heavily restored in 1844, with octagonal bowl with shields set in cusped panels and figure of Christ climbing out of tomb, bowl supported on cluster of 8 shafts.

2 medieval gravestones set into floor to south west of nave, both with illegible inscriptions, one with inscribed cross with base and shaped plinth.