Architectural Features
3 stage C15 tower with moulded plinth, 2 string courses, embattled parapet and stepped corner buttresses with blank shields.
Above again is a niche containing a carving of a saint beneath a crocketed canopy.
C15 north aisle having large 3 light windows, triangular headed to the west, all with panel tracery, also a continuously moulded triangular headed doorway.
In the east wall of the C19 vestry is a further reset C12 window.
Splendid late C13 east window of 5 lights having 3 geometric circular panels to the head.
On the south side are 2 C15 windows
a C12 shafted doorway with scalloped capitals
chamfered reveals, with immediately above a tall late C13 lancet with moulded hood.
C15 south aisle with 3 three light C15 windows, with panel tracery,one with triangular head.
Beyond is a blocked window and to the west is a further C15 3 light window.
C14 inner doorway, continuously moulded.
5 bay nave arcades, with C14 quatrefoil filleted shafts, having contemporary annular capitals on the south
C15 chamfered capitals to the north.
Tall C15 recessed tower arch, now with chamfered corbels.
C15 double chamfered chancel arch with octagonal reveals and chamfered capitals.
C15 nave and aisle roofs having reduced crown posts, moulded principals and ties resting on corbels with blank shields.
Gilded angels and grotesque heads at the intersections.
In the chancel, the rear arches of 2 further C12 windows can be seen in the north wall
late C13 Y traceried aumbry.
Behind the altar a C12 round headed reliquary cupboard.
C15 roof matches the nave, but has a brattished wall plate.
C15 fine oak chancel screen of 5 bays, the middle wider, and originally with doors.
Restored C15 pulpit, octagonal, having moulded cornice, and crocketed ogees to the traceried panels.
The pulpit and rood screen - A Saxon church building stood on or near the present site. The Domesday Survey of 1085 makes reference to it. There is a tradition that the monks and other builders employed by the Abbey re-built the church at Fishtoft at the same time they were building a cell for the monks of Crowland in the church at Freiston. The style is Perpendicular, with traces of Norman architecture. The chancel is Norman with the insertion of Perpendicular windows. It is said that there could have been a Norman nave, because stones with the Norman decorations can be seen in the walls of the Nave and the scarcity of stone in the district would account for the use of the older material at the time of re-building the nave. There are two features in the church of Early English origin; the lancet window in the south wall of the chancel which now contains the stained glass depicting St. Guthlac. The other feature is the headstone of the lancet window in the south wall of the nave between two of the arcades. This suggests that sometime after 1200 the Norman church was altered and extended. The list of Rectors, in the church, starts 1274. Some time after 1300 further enlargements and alterations took place. The most extensive alterations and additions took place during the Perpendicular period. Sometime after 1400 a major re-building of the nave and the addition of the tower would have taken place. From this time the church consisted of the chancel, nave, the north and south aisles, and the tower, which stands at the west end of the nave and is evidently the latest addition to the structure. The north aisle has four windows Perpendicular style and the south aisle three. A 16th century clerestory of five windows on each side lights the upper part of the nave. The characteristic style of windows can be seen in the west wall of the south aisle and in the tower over the west door. The font, chancel screen and much of the restored pulpit are also originally from this period. Apart from repairs, no major work was carried out on the church until the 19th century when from 1853-54 the Rector, Rev Henry Holdsworth undertook the organisation and supervision of a general restoration. This included the removal of all the plastering from the walls and re pointing of stonework. The vestry was built on to the north wall of the chancel, and the porch was rebuilt on the south aisle.
Good C15 octagonal font with elaborate traceried panels to bowl and stem, on double stepped plinth.
The font in the north aisle - A Saxon church building stood on or near the present site. The Domesday Survey of 1085 makes reference to it. There is a tradition that the monks and other builders employed by the Abbey re-built the church at Fishtoft at the same time they were building a cell for the monks of Crowland in the church at Freiston. The style is Perpendicular, with traces of Norman architecture. The chancel is Norman with the insertion of Perpendicular windows. It is said that there could have been a Norman nave, because stones with the Norman decorations can be seen in the walls of the Nave and the scarcity of stone in the district would account for the use of the older material at the time of re-building the nave. There are two features in the church of Early English origin; the lancet window in the south wall of the chancel which now contains the stained glass depicting St. Guthlac. The other feature is the headstone of the lancet window in the south wall of the nave between two of the arcades. This suggests that sometime after 1200 the Norman church was altered and extended. The list of Rectors, in the church, starts 1274. Some time after 1300 further enlargements and alterations took place. The most extensive alterations and additions took place during the Perpendicular period. Sometime after 1400 a major re-building of the nave and the addition of the tower would have taken place. From this time the church consisted of the chancel, nave, the north and south aisles, and the tower, which stands at the west end of the nave and is evidently the latest addition to the structure. The north aisle has four windows Perpendicular style and the south aisle three. A 16th century clerestory of five windows on each side lights the upper part of the nave. The characteristic style of windows can be seen in the west wall of the south aisle and in the tower over the west door. The font, chancel screen and much of the restored pulpit are also originally from this period. Apart from repairs, no major work was carried out on the church until the 19th century when from 1853-54 the Rector, Rev Henry Holdsworth undertook the organisation and supervision of a general restoration. This included the removal of all the plastering from the walls and re pointing of stonework. The vestry was built on to the north wall of the chancel, and the porch was rebuilt on the south aisle.
Monuments.