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Saint Helen

Saint Helen

Barnoldby le Beck

Lincolnshire

Late C13 south door

Architectural Features

C13-C14 arcades, aisles and tower

C14- C15 nave clerestory and tower parapet.

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

pointed chamfered door with hoodmould and rustic headstops, pointed 2-light window with curvilinear tracery, square-headed 2- light trefoiled window, C15 triangular-headed 3-light trefoiled window with hoodmould, pointed 3-light traceried east window, triangular-headed 3-light mullioned window, crocketed angle pinnacles.

Chancel: buttresses at angles and between bays, those to south-east with carved grotesques

Porch: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, round-headed outer arch with mouldings dying into jambs, coped gable with re-set medieval grotesque.

Arcades: 3 late C13 bays, extended to east in later C13 - early C14.

Pointed double- chamfered arches, with carved head corbels to south.

C14 pointed moulded tower arch of 2 orders with hoodmould and headstops

North aisle lean-to roof has moulded tie-beams and butt-purlins with C16 and later carved bosses, one dated 1839

similar bosses re-set on C19 pulpit and on C19 nave and chancel roofs.

Worn re-used medieval grave slab at west end of north aisle with indent for small brass of 2 figures.

Former Cll - C12 circular font bowl in south aisle.

Present font has C13 circular bowl with intersecting arches on later cylindrical column base.

C14 stained glass to top section of pointed north aisle window, and to south aisle east window, including crucifixus and figure of St Mary.