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St Chad

St Chad

Dunholme CP

Lincolnshire

Early C13, late C13, C14, 1856 restoration, 1902 organ chamber and vestry added, 1914 south porch added.

Architectural Features

The C13 unbuttressed tower has 3 stages with 2 string courses and a battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles.

The north wall of the north aisle has a C14 ogee headed doorway flanked by single 2 light windows with cusped ogee heads and segmental hood moulds.

The south wall has 2 and 3 light windows in C14 style.

In the south aisle are 2 three light C14 windows with flat heads and a further similar window west of the porch.

The south porch of 1914 has a cusped outer arch surmounted by a niche containing a carving of St. Chad, with side benches and quatrefoil side lights.

The inner doorway is C13 with single chamfer, hood mould, label stops one ammonite and one human head.

The 3 bay early C13 north and south arcades have quatreroil piers with slender shafts at the diagonals, keeled responds, quatrefoil capitals, double chamfered arches, hood moulds and human head label stops.

At the west end of the south aisle is a small glazed cupboard containing a small leather medieval chalice case.

In the chancel north wall is a C19 door to the vestry and a triangular headed aumbry with original C17 doors and decorative ironwork hinges.

At the east end of the chancel are 2 repositioned carved C13 statue brackets supported on humanheads.

The C15 octagonal font has fleurons and seated figures of saints in niches to both pedestal and bowl.

In the north aisle is C20 stained glass depicting St.Chad.

In the chancel south wall is a monument to Robert Grantham d. 1541, restored 1857.

The figure of the deceased is kneeling before a book, flanker by Doric columns supporting an entablature, above which is an inscription surmounted by oval armorial panels.