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St Andrew

St Andrew

Helpringham

Lincolnshire

HELPRINGHAM HIGH STREET TF 1240-1340 (south side) 13/72 Church of St. Andrew 1/2/67 I Parish church. c.1200, late C13, C14, C17, restored 1891.

Architectural Features

3 stage C14 west tower with moulded string courses, stepped setback buttresses, plain parapet and angle pinnacles.

The rebuilt east wall contains a 3 light C19 Y traceried window with C14 annular imposts.

In the north aisle is a trefoil headed piscina with trefoiled gablet and floriated finial, also a statue bracket supported by a grotesque figure.

In the south aisle is a further piscina with a trefoil head, crocketted gablet, seaweed carving and floriate knop.

Fittings: C14 wooden chancel screen with cusped panel tracery to the upper lights and matching blank tracery in the lower panels, brattished top beam.

C17 oak octagonal pulpit, panelled sides and moulded tester.

In the nave a complete set of C17 oak pews, panelled and moulded top rails and finials.

TF1340 : Font, St Andrew's church, Helpringham

Early C13 round tub font, octagonal angle shafts, blank pointed tracery to the sides with crude Agnus Dei and foliage.

TF1340 : Font, St Andrew's church, Helpringham

© J.Hannan-Briggs

In the tower an iron bound C16 chest with 3 lock plates.