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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Partney

Lincolnshire

C14, C15, chancel rebuilt 1828, nave and aisles rebuilt and porch built c.1862 by C. E. Giles, tower part rebuilt 1910.

Architectural Features

Angle buttressed C15 tower of 4 stages with bands including moulded band over plinth and topped with a parapet and single corner gargoyles and finials.

Above is a single C15 arched 4 light window with cusped panel tracery, hood mould and human head label stops.

4 arched C15 bell chamber 3 light openings with cusped panel tracery, hood moulds and worn label stops.

The west wall'of the north aisle has a single C14 arched 3 light window with reticulated tracery, hood mould and label stops.

The north wall has 2 heavily restored arched 2 light C14 windows with flowing tracery, C19 hood moulds and label stops.

To the left is a single restored C14 window with 3 ogee arched and cusped lights and tracery under a flat arch with hood mould and on the far left is a single segmental arched restored C14 window with 3 ogee arched and cusped lights, tracery and hood mould.

C15 clerestorey with 4 arched 2 light windows with cusped tracery.

The east chancel of brick with clasping buttresses topped with single ashlar finials, coped gable terminating in single small carved human heads and ashlar band following the line of the gable has a single arched re-used ashlar 5 light C15 window with single transom with ogee arched and cusped lights and quatrefoils below and ogee arched and cusped lights and tracery above.

The east wall of the south aisle with single arched 3 light C14 window with cusped tracery, hood mould and label stops.

The south wall with single restored segmental arched 3 light C14 window with cusped tracery, hood mould and label stops.

To the left is a single restored 3 light C14 window with reticulated tracery under a flat arch and with hood mould and label stops.

Inner C14 moulded ogee arched doorway with hood mould, human head label stops and finial.

Over is a carved statuette.

To the left is a single similar C14 window under a flat arch and in the west wall a single arched 3 light C14 window with cusped tracery, hood mould and label stops.

4 bay C14 nave arcades with double chamfered arches, octagonal columns and responds to the south side.

The west capital of the north side with carved heads, the central capital with carved heads sprouting leaves and the east with fleuron.

Tall C15 triple chamfered tower arch.

C14 moulded chancel arch, the inner order supported on large carved human heads, the outer order decorated with carved fleuron and human and animal heads.

Below the arch and at the juncture of north nave and chancel is a further carved human head.

Low chancel screen with some C15 fragments.

The north aisle with a screen reconstructed from fragments of a C15 screen with panel tracery.

TF4168 : Font, St Nicholas' church, Partney

Octagonal C15 ashlar font, bowl and pedestal decorated with blind tracery.

TF4168 : Font, St Nicholas' church, Partney

© Julian P Guffogg

C19 ashlar pulpit.

Brass memorial to Jane Rugeley, 1670.

Single late C18 and 2 early C19 memorials.