Architectural Features
3 stage Cll tower of plain unbuttressed 'Lincolnshire' type, embattled C15 parapet and crocketted angle pinnacles.
The north aisle is C14 with a moulded plinth, stepped buttresses and hollow chamfered eaves course.
The north door is C14 with angle shafts to the jambs and deeply moulded pointed head.
In the blocking of the chancel arch is a C16 4 centred arched doorway with above, a 5 light C19 window with intersecting tracery.
C14 window to east wall of south aisle of 4 lights with fine flowing cusped tracery to the head, trefoils and attenuated quatrefoils.
C14 south aisle with stepped buttresses and 5 three light intersecting Y traceried windows with pointed heads and chamfered surrounds.
The inner door is also C14 with a continuous chamfered surround.
Interior: 5 bay C13 north and south arcades, slender circular keeled responds with annular capitals supporting double chamfered arches with hollow moulded hoods and human head stops.
Blocked C14 chancel arch, hollow moulded with circular shafted reveals and annular capitals.
In the north aisle is a C14 piscina with cusped gabled head and 2 plain aumbries.
There is an early C14 piscina in the south aisle with cusped trefoil to the pointed head, also a Caernarvon arched doorway to the rood loft.
Fittings: are C19 and C20 apart from the late C17 altar rails with turned balusters
the C14 octagonal font with sunk quatrefoils to the sides and cusped headed statue niches to the sides and stem.
Dates from early 14th Century. It was moved to its present position in 1896. The cover is 19th Century.
Reset round the font is some late C18 softwood panelling.
Above the north door is a fine carved and painted Royal Arms of George III dated 1801.
Monuments: in the north aisle a wall monument to Robert Cawdron, d.l665, showing deceased and 3 wives all kneeling and in 2 tiers of free standing figures.
A tablet mounted on a marble cartouche. Scrolled broken pediment with a shield in a scrolled surround bearing a coat of arms mounted on the crown. The incised Latin inscription in caps occupies approximately 2/3 of the tablet. Below are incised figures of a man and his two wives kneeling either side of a central desk. The man is bearded and wears half armour and boots. Behind the man are 9 sons and behind the wives are 6 daughters. Five infants (4 male, 1 female) who died in infancy lie beneath in grave clothes with their heads resting on skulls. The tablet rests on a black shelf (broken). Below is a shield with swags on each side held by a bow and scrolls around. The shield bears a coat of arms. Anne (d.1625) , the first wife of Robert Cawdron, was the daughter of Edward King, of Ashby. His second wife, Mary (d.1667), was the daughter of William Williams, Rector of Aswardby. Greenhill records 6 of Anne’s sons as Richard, Robert, John, Anthony, Francis and George, and 4 daughters as Bridget, Anne, Katherine and Eleanor. Mary had one son, Augustine. The other children are not named. Latin Translation: Sacred to the memory of Robert Cawdron, Esq., taken from this life: in alms most bountiful, in fatherhood most faithful. Two wives he had, Dame Anne born of Edward King Esquire, who bore him ten sons and six daughters. Dame Mary widow of John Austen Gentleman, from whom, three sons and one daughter. He died on the 11th day of March Anno 1652: the 73rd year of his age. Eleanor, a most dutiful daughter, lamenting placed this to most loving parents. Anthony the son made it.