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St Edmund

St Edmund

Riby CP

Lincolnshire

TA 10 NE RIBY MAIN STREET 6/130 Church of St. Edmund 1-11-66 II* Parish Church C12, C13, C15, 1868, restoration by Ferrey.

Architectural Features

West door is late C13 with pointed moulded head and floriate label stops, recutin C19.

Above is a 3 light C13 geometric window, again heavily recut, most of the tracery replaced, above again is a C19 sexfoil in a circular setting, cross fleury at the gable.

West window of the south aisle is a late C13 2 light, recut in C19, with hood mould

floriate label stops matching those on the west door., North wall of nave is random rubble, a blocked C12 doorway with plain jambs and chamfered imposts, facetted arch and hood mould decorated with cable moulding with hobnails and terminating in abraded beast headed label stops.

2 C19 2 light windows in a late C13 style.

North wall of north transept has a single 3 light window in a late C13 pointed opening but with C19 reticulated tracery.

Single storey above nave and aisle roofs, single windows in each side of 2 lights, C14 with cusped ogee heads and quatrefoils over moulded hood moulds with human headed label stops.

Gargoyles at angles with above a C15 crenellated and pinnacled parapet.

Chancel south wall has a central buttress with to the east a recut late C13 door with hood mould and floriate label stops.

2 windows, both 2 light, late C13 developed Y tracery, hood moulds and label stops, mostly C19 now.

Inside a late C13 north arcade of 3 bays, octagonal piers with moulded capitals and double chamfered arches.

Memorials:- In the chancel are 3 good C18 hatchments and a wreathed marble urn on a pediment to William Tomline, d. 1742.

Above is a small marble wall plaque depicting a mourning female figure beside a Classical tomb, by P. M. Van Gelder, dated 1806, and apparently designed by the member of the Tomline family for whom it was erected.