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St Hybald

St Hybald

Scawby

Lincolnshire

C13-C15 tower

Architectural Features

1842-43 rebuilding in C13 style.

Moulded string course with pairs of gargoyles to north and south sides, coped embattled parapet.

Monuments.

In chancel, south side: wall monument to Richard Nelthorpe and wife Ursula, of c1640, attributed to Marshall workshop, with life-sized busts in round-arched niches above inscription and panel with 6 miniature figures (2 damaged) of mourning children holding skulls, flanked by scrolled brackets and columns carrying entablature and carved archievement in ornate strapwork surround

wall tablet to John Nelthorpe, of 1669, (transferred from Church of St James, Clerkenwell) with scrolled bracket and festooned base, inscription flanked by Ionic columns carrying entablature with pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice and scrolled pediment bearing cartouche with arms

Four C18 and later hatchments fixed above wall monuments in chancel.

Plain C19 octagonal font on shafted column base.