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St Mary

St Mary

Hogsthorpe

Lincolnshire

3 stage C12 tower has tall lower stage, roll and concave moulded string courses, battlemented parapet, clasping buttresses to lower stage only.

Architectural Features

The C15 added belfry stage has triple louvred panel traceried lights in each direction.

Below is a blocked early C13 opening with engaged angle shafts.

On the west side a pair of early C13 tall lancets with short central buttress between.

The C19 limestone ashlar chancel with slate roof is in C14 reticulated style and has a 2 light window to north, a 3 light window to the east, and a pair of 2 light windows to the south.

On the south east quoin is a reused C14 armorial stone, and on the south side a pointed doorway.

The south aisle and porch are both C15 originally in greenstone

ashlar, with bell moulded plinth, partly rebuilt in 1607 in brick and ashlar.

On the parapet a date inscribed "1607 TCTS".

The southern clerestorey has 3 paired cusped C14 lights, recut.

C15 gabled ashlar porch with stepped angle buttresses and double chamfered arch with filleted shafted reveals.

Early C13 5 bay nave arcades with circular piers, annular capitals, 2 with stiff leaf foliage, and double chamfered arches with human head stops, one a female with nose band.

Early C13 tower arch with filleted shafted responds, octagonal capitals, triple chamfered arch.

Surrounded by books during a Churches Festival.

Panelled octagonal pulpit dated 1730, C15 octagonal font with shields and cusped panels to bowl and stem.

Surrounded by books during a Churches Festival.

© Julian P Guffogg