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St Andrew

St Andrew

Burton Stather

Lincolnshire

C13 square 3-stage tower with massive Roman gritstone blocks re-used for lower quoins.

Architectural Features

3-stage stair turret has chamfered angles, re- used moulded string courses and medieval carved head stops, and narrow lancets under a hipped slate roof.

Nave south aisle has string course, 2 buttresses and 2 pointed 3-light windows with hood-moulds and C19 tracery, a C13 west lancet

a C14 pointed 3-light window with Curvilinear tracery.

North porch has C13 side lancets with foliate stops and moulded ogee- headed inner doorway.

South porch covers late C12 inner door with 3 orders of shafts with foliate capitals and richly moulded arch.

C14 chancel has chamfered plinth, string course, stepped diagonal buttresses with crocketed finials, pointed 2-light side windows with hood-moulds, all but one with C19 tracery, a 3-light pointed east window re-set with C19' tracery and a blocked cusped lancet above.

Organ chamber has a re- set C14 3-light east window with Curvilinear tracery.

Interior: 4-bay north arcade has 3 C12 cylindrical piers

richly-moulded octagonal capitals and pointed arches with scallops, pellets, rolls, keel and chevron mouldings, probably re-set in C13.

Fourth bay has C13 keeled quatrefoil pier with double-chamfered arch

C14 octagonal respond.

C14 south arcade of octagonal piers with plain moulded capitals and double-chamfered arches, C14 double-chamfered tower arch on octagonal responds.

Chancel has a C14 sedilia with crocketed and cusped ogival heads supported by C19 mullions.

Glass: west window of south aisle has C18 painted figure of Christ by Pearson of York.

Monuments in chancel: mutilated C13 crusader effigy re-set in a niche with C14 ballflower decoration.

1776 marble statue of mourning woman to Sir Charles Sheffield and Margaretta his wife by Fisher of York, 1816 recessed wall monument to Sir John Sheffield and Rev Robert Sheffield by J Bacon junior of London.