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St Bartholomew

St Bartholomew

Ingoldsby

Lincolnshire

C12, C14, C15, C16, Cl7, c.1700 with C19 alterations.

Architectural Features

C16 ashlar rather squat 3 stage tower with moulded plinth, 2 string courses, battlemented parapet with corner crocketed pinnacles above stepped clasping buttresses.

C17 3 light cross mullioned west window.

2 light C16 belfry openings to each face, with 4 centre heads and hood moulds.

North aisle coursed limestone rubble with slate roof and stone coped gables, 2 bays marked by 3 added stepped buttresses, in western bay a C15 north doorway with deeply splayed hood mould, door having ogee panellel carved tracery.

West, south and east aisle windows all C16 3 light with flat heads under hood moulds with label stops.

2 windows both with hood moulds and label stops, the eastern one being C15 tall 3 light with panelled tracery

triangular head, the other being C14 2 light with curvilinear tracery.

The C15 east window

To the east of the porch is a C14 2 light window

to the west a C15 3 light window, both matching their equivalents on the north side of the chancel.

The east window which has been cut by the later shallower roof pitch is a late C13 3 light window with Y tracery and a shallow hood mould with tiny human mask stops.

The south window is C15 3 light with triangular head.

The C16 south porch has a roll moulded plinth and a string course and a blocked triangular headed east window.

The plain moulded parapet conceals a lead roof, which is drained by a defaced gargoyle with a ruff.

The south door is C15 with hood mould over having shield label stops.

The door has C15 ogee decoration and a wicket with an ogee head.

The south clerestorey has a plain parapet and three 2-light C16 windows with hood moulds under continuous cornice.

The 3 bay north arcade is late C12 with double chamfered semi- circular arches on semi-circular piers with circular bases on square blocks.

In the south aisle is a C15 tomb recess with damaged cusped decoration, and a trefoil headed piscina.

In the chancel is a C15 tomb recess and a blocked opening which shows that the chancel has been shortened.

The nave roof is C16 with large tie beams and braces to corbels.

the pulpit and altar rails are C20.

In the chancel are 2 fine C16 chairs.

The new vestry behind.

The octagonal font is C15 with shields in cusped panels and stem with traceried designs.

The new vestry behind.

© Bob Harvey

In the south aisle east window are C14 glass fragments reset and dated "JH 1801 CW"