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Saint Maurice

Saint Maurice

Saxby All Saints

Lincolnshire

C13 tower, nave arcades, north aisle and chancel.

Architectural Features

C14-C15 south aisle and clerestory.

C17 repairs to nave and north aisle roofs

plain string course, 2nd stage shows line of former steeply-pitched gable on east face, twin lancet belfry openings beneath pointed hoodmould with carved stops.

South aisle: two C19 pointed 2-light windows with Geometric tracery, 3-light east window with C19 head, C14-C15 square-headed 2-light west window with crude Perpendicular tracery.

late C13 pointed 2-light west and east windows with Geometric tracery, latter with hoodmould and carved headstops.

North and south arcades of pointed double-chamfered arches with hoodmoulds and fine carved headstops

C13 cylindrical piers to north

early C14'octagonal piers to south, both with plain moulded capitals and bases, semicircular responds to east, keeled responds to west (obscured by plaster on south).

Encaustic tile chancel floor, C19 roof.

Nave roof of plain, heavy oak dated 1609 probably represents lowering of C15 crown-post roof: central jowelled posts have broad down-braces to tie-beams and up-braces to ridge purlin, short struts braced to tie beam and tenoned into principals carry purlins, and tie-beams are braced to later wall-posts on ashlar corbels.

the principals, tenoned through nave wall, terminate in pegged brackets, one dated 1659.

Monuments: pair of marble wall tablets at east end of nave to Rear Admiral Thomas Shirley of 1814, and Colonel John Tufnell of 1838, with carved ornament on grey obelisk-shaped bases