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St Martin

St Martin

Lyndon

Rutland

C13-14, much restored 1866.

Architectural Features

C14/C15 tower of 3 stages.

Plinth, W window with C19 stained glass, 4 2-light bell openings with transom and hood moulds, and battlements.

Inside, a C13 coffin slab in floor of tower and double chamfered nave arch, the inner arch on corbels.

Both nave arcades of 2 bays, C13/early C14, octagonal piers, double chamfered arches, with hood moulds and single central head stop either side.

Chancel mainly C19 with coloured tile floor, E window and S door.

S aisle has C13 door with hood mould and head stops, and 2 C19 windows.

C12 font, round becoming square at top, on short supports, 3 with attached shafts.

The pulpit is a fine example of Victorian alabaster work, the red colouration suggestion that the stone may have come from southern Nottinghamshire.
The listing description dates it at 1856, which is the date quoted in the Victoria County History, but a page on the Lyndon Estates website contains information from notes made by the architect of the 1866 restoration that indicates that a new pulpit was included in the work. The similarity of the work to the reredos http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4840739 which is definitely of that date does suggest that they are contemporary. Pevsner gives it as 1866, and I suspect that the VCH date is a mis-type, and that this has filtered down to the listing description.

Reredos (with sgraffito work) and pulpit of alabaster of 1856.

The pulpit is a fine example of Victorian alabaster work, the red colouration suggestion that the stone may have come from southern Nottinghamshire. The listing description dates it at 1856, which is the date quoted in the Victoria County History, but a page on the Lyndon Estates website contains information from notes made by the architect of the 1866 restoration that indicates that a new pulpit was included in the work. The similarity of the work to the reredos http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4840739 which is definitely of that date does suggest that they are contemporary. Pevsner gives it as 1866, and I suspect that the VCH date is a mis-type, and that this has filtered down to the listing description.

© Alan Murray-Rust

On exterior C18 wall monument on E wall of porch, and another on S wall of chancel to John Freeman, died 1796, a former rector.