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St Mary

St Mary

Ketton

Rutland

Church, C12 origin, aisles added C13, heightened C14, clerestory C15, nave restored 1861 by G G Scott, chancel rebuilt 1863 by T G Jackson, chancel roof painted 1950 by Charles Nicholson.

Architectural Features

Consists of nave, aisles, crossing tower and spire, transeptal chapels (originally transepts, line of which roofs are still visible north and south of tower) chancel, C13 embattled south porch, north vestry of 1935.

West front: pilaster buttresses at angles, round-headed C12 west doorway with several orders of chevron moulding, carried on cylindrical shafts with shaft-rings, flanked by blind panels with steeply pointed arches with chevron mouldings, carried on similar shafts.

Tower: C12 lower stage with pilaster buttresses

roll-mouldings, carried up in C13 Early English bell stage as angle shafts.

C14 octagonal broach spire with gargoyles at springing point.

C19 roof incorporating C15 tie beams.

C15 two-light clerestory.

Round-headed entrance to bell chamfer reached by gallery from stair turret to south, carried across south aisle by dispointed C12 arch with chevron mouldings.

C19 roof with angel springers.

Pews incorporate some medieval bench ends.

SK9804 : Ketton: St. Mary the Virgin: The 14th century font

C14 font with flat tracery.

SK9804 : Ketton: St. Mary the Virgin: The 14th century font

© Michael Garlick

C19 and C20 stained glass.