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St Mary

St Mary

Brinkhill

Lincolnshire

C13, rebuilt 1854-5 by S. S. Teulon.

Architectural Features

C13 tower, heightened C19, set on a chamfered plinth and of 2 stages, the top C19 stage being slightly set back and with small angle buttresses.

Single corner gargoyles to the west side.

The west wall has a single arched 2 light C19 window with reticulated tracery, hood mould and C14 human head label stops.

Triple chamfered C13 tower arch.

Chancel roof supported on 2 moulded capitals in turn supported on single carved angels.

Tuning and Maintenance of organ by Aistrup and Hind Ltd., Lincoln.

C15 ashlar font, the shaft decorated with blind perpendicular tracery, the octagonal bowl with 8 shields with single carved heads over.

Tuning and Maintenance of organ by Aistrup and Hind Ltd., Lincoln.

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Single C15 bench with poppy heads.

C17 chest with some carving.

Memorials.

South nave has an arched tomb recess contaning the restored C14 effigy of a cross legged knight in chain mail with shield and feet on a lion.

Mounted onto a choir stall is a C15 brass of a female figure.

Over is a wall tablet containing 3 brass plaques, 2 of shields the third with inscription to John Copledike,1557 and his wife, 1552.

In the chancel is a further tomb chest to John Copledike, 1585 and his wife, 1582.

The back panel now was 2 brass figures and 3 shields, also some blind tracery.

The memorial to Tho.

Copledike, 1658, has the apron decorated with a carved angel and is topped with a broken segmental pediment containing a shield.

Alabaster memorial to Francis Copuldyck and his wife and family, 1599, 2 kneeling figures with 2 further smaller similar figures in decorated aedicule surround flanked by single obelisks with decorative apron and coloured cartouche, flanked by single coloured shields on the crown.