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St Andrew

St Andrew

Epworth

Lincolnshire

Largely C14-C15 with late C12 - early C13 nave arcades and early C14 chancel.

Architectural Features

Chancel partly destroyed in 1642, side chapels demolished and chancel partly rebuilt in 1670s.

Angle gargoyles, string course, coped embattled parapet with crocketed angle and central pinnacles.

North porch: central section breaks forward, with fine reset late C13 - early C14 pointed cusped and sub-cusped arch on hollow chamfered responds

stone tablet above inscribed: Rich Taylor Ch Whitehead Church Wardens 1721 C14-C15 interior has pointed tunnel vault with single hollow-chamfered rib on carved corbels, that to right a figure holding leaves, that to left worn, with heraldic relief tablets alongside corbels, one bearing arms of Mowbray family

2 reset fragments of incised C14 graveslab to third bay.

restored 4-light east window with curvilinear tracery, hoodmould and head stops, beneath rebuilt coped gable with angle gargoyles and cross finial.

Tall pointed double-chamfered tower arch with continuous outer chamfer and corbelled inner order with carved corbel to north side, flanked by heavy tower buttresses with chamfered lower sections projecting into nave.

6-bay nave roof with chamfered and moulded tie beams with single side- and ridge- purlins, carved floral bosses, and inscription: Wm Watkin & Jno Sampson Church Wardens 1782 Robt Pickard Carpenter C19 aisle and chancel roofs, latter of 4 bays with traceried panels above tie beams and carved angel corbels to eastern truss.

Monuments in chancel: marble wall tablets to Peter and Mary Barnard of c1808 with paterae, moulded cornice and urn

to Margaret Maw of 1797 with faded painted arms and carved urn

C19 - early C20 stained glass, that to east window dated 1878.

Late C13 - early C14 octagonal font has bowl with plain panelled sides, moulded underside and short shaft.