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St Martin

St Martin

Blyton CP

Lincolnshire

Cll, C13, C14, C15, C16, c.1860, coursed limestone rubble, rock faced ashlar, slate and lead roofs.

Architectural Features

C16 3 light window with panelled tracery and hood mould built in to blocking of Romanesque west door.

C16 paired lights to belfry stage having trefoil heads, 4 centred arches and hood moulds.

To north clerestorey, 3 paired C15 cusped and ogee headed lights united under flat hood moulds with human head label stops, embattled parapet.

East window originally late C13 with geometric tracery, the lower parts of which survive

South aisle has a large C15 3 light ogee headed and cusped window with flat double chamfered head in its east and west walls

The south doorway is a restored C14 opening with moulded reveals, hood mould and label stops.

Inside: early C13 north and south arcades of 3 bays, both having keeled responds and 3 octagonal pillars, though one on the north side has a keeled quatrefoil plan.

The chancel arch is early C13 with keeled responds, double chamfered arches with hood moulds having C19 label stops.

Above on a ledge in the nave east wall is a C15 rood beam with embattled top and enriched with fleurons.

The lower part of a C13 piscina beneath the eastern window on the south side, and in the south wall at the west end the remains of a blocked C13 2 centred arch are cut by a C16 opening.

All fittings are C19 apart from the C15 chalice shaped font which has a fluted octagonal bowl and base.

Monuments

on the south wall of the chancel, a brass plate to the children of Sir John Wray of Wharton, d. 1613 and 1615, in a square moulded stone surround.