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St Andrew

St Andrew

Osgodby CP

Lincolnshire

Early C13, early C14, C15, 1790, restoration dates of 1891, 1900, 1923

Architectural Features

3 stage tower, in roughly coursed ironstone rubble, with plinth, 2 plain string courses, and C15 plain embattled parapet.

All faces have C13 paired belfry lights with mid wall shafts with projecting carved heads on central impost, and pointed arches.

The west end has a single C13 lancet to the first stage

The chancel is in ironstone coursed rubble with lead roof and the north side has a C14 2 light window with Y tracery.

The East end has a C14 3 light window with Y tracery.

The south side of the chancel has one stepped buttress and a 3 light C20 window in C17 style and a similar 2 light window.

Built into the wall is an early C13 decorated grave slab with circular cross motif.

The fenestration of the south side of the nave is as the north side except that the windows have plain surrounds with carved heads at impost level.

Part of a further C13 grave slab is built into the nave wall.

The C13 tower arch has double chamfers and octagonal responds.

The chancel roof is a C15 king post roof with one corbel head remaining from an earlier roof.

At the east end is a trefoil headed piscina and on the north side a C13 double piscina with octagonal shaft and one quatrefoil stoup and one circular stoup.

Monuments: In the chancel are 2 tomb chests to John and Margaet Wildbore.

On the north side, in front of the piscina, is an effigy of a lady, late C14, in sunken relief with her head on a cushion with 2 angels either side all under an ogee arch.

On the south side is a late C14 knight, in high relief, in perfect condition, in full armour, and with a rebus of a wild boar on his middle.

The font is C18, a plain circular bowl on a bulbous pedestal.