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St Mary

St Mary

Syston

Lincolnshire

C12 west tower of three stages, coursed rubble, with C15 ashlar diagonal buttresses.

Architectural Features

C12 window on south side, C15 three light window on west.

C12 double belfry openings in top stage with Saxon-type mid wall shafts and monolithic arched heads with volute capitals.

C15 castellated and pinnacled parapet with gargoyles.

C15 triple clerestorey lights in north wall of nave with chamfered and moulded arches, large gargoyles at eastern angles.

North aisle rebuilt in coursed rubble in C19, lit by pointed arches North wall of chancel has one ogee-headed C15 window and two C19 windows, decorated eaves cornice.

One double C19 light and a recut C12 round-headed window, a further ogee-headed window balances that on the north side.

South wall of nave in coursed limestone rubble with C15 stepped buttresses.

One C12 round-headed window with half roll hood mould

a restored C14 two-light window with cusped trefoil heads and human mask label stops.

South door has a restored Saxon lintel with standing figures of saints under an architectural arcade.

Above is a C12 tympanum with a billet moulded hood mould, a double order of star motifs and a central panel filled with diagonal trellis lines.

The central parts of the lintel and the tympanum were cut by the insertion of a pointed arch during the C13, but this was removed during the C19 and an approximation of the original design substituted.

Interior: North arcade of two bays supported by single early C12 circular pillar with scalloped cushion capital and square abacus, responds are half columns with partly restored scroll mouldings.

Tower arch restored in C19 but reusing some original C12 materials, including some voussoirs and probably the capitals.

Two nook shafts on either side with shallow carved leaf and patera capitals, imposts continue as a stringcourse across the west nave wall.

Nave roof C19 resting on eight C15 corbels, presumably reset

The chancel arch is flanked by two C15 double lights with flat heads.

Although largely a C19 restoration, the half shafts of the chancel arch are C12, as are the capitals with cable moulding, stiff leaves/feathers, volutes and human masks.

South wall of chancel has stained glass window in marble lined opening dedicated to Henry Cecil Thorold, k.

1902, S. African War, glass by Kempe, as is the east window of the chancel.

Monument on north nave wall to Sir John Thorold d. 1716 with two draped standing figures with a scrolled cartouched above, by William Kidwell.