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St Peter AD Vincula

St Peter Ad Vincula

Bottesford

Lincolnshire

Largely C13 with C15-C16 tower parapet and buttresses.

Architectural Features

Restorations to tower 1630, and to remainder C19, including chancel and south transept 1857-64, with chancel roof by S S Teulon.

2-stage tower has angle buttresses, needle lancers to first stage, narrow stairway lighting slits on south side, stringcourse, pointed 2-light belfry openings with quatrefoil over, corbel table, gargoyles and coped embattled parapet with crocketed finials.

Nave clerestory has alternate circular windows and lancets with dripmoulds and carved stops.

North porch has ashlar front and re- set early C12 round-headed chamfered arch with nailhead dripmould.

Chancel and transept north and south walls have nailhead dripmoulds and carved stops, mostly whorls.

Fittings include moulded octagonal pulpit base with stone steps in north aisle.

SE8907 : Font, St Peter ad Vincula church, Bottesford

C19 font on earlier circular base.

SE8907 : Font, St Peter ad Vincula church, Bottesford

© Julian P Guffogg

Single table tombs in each transept, that in north with mensa slab on top and C17(?) tablet recording burial of Morleys arid Holmes of Holme Hall, that in south with gravestone recording burials of Healey family in 1677 and 1717.