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St Nicholas

Swineshead

Bedfordshire

Mainly C14, C15 additions

Architectural Features

4 stage tower, stone spire with lucarnes, pierced quatrefoiled parapet, weathered gargoyles at angles

S aisle has C15 square-headed W window, piscina in jamb of SE window

C15 2-storey vestry with single lights to E wall

C14 piscina to lower room

C15 clerestory with 4 windows each side

Chancel retains one C14 window, others reworked C19 in similar style, all with C14 figured stops

Traces of painting to E wall of S aisles, of 2 angels, flanking canopied niche

C14 octagonal font to nave

C14 W door has blank tracery to head.

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