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St Botolph

Newbold on Avon

Warwickshire

Splendid series of Boughton monuments (from 1454 to the late C19)

Architectural Features

chancel rebuilt in the C19 (architect unknown). Tower base possibly C12

The lower two stages have heavy clasping buttresses, usually a sign of the C12 or early C13

The north porch is C15, perhaps coeval with the doors (c. 1455). The porch has a low-pitched gable, diagonal buttresses with cusped gables, and paired niches with elaborate vaulted canopies flanking the outer arch

It has a C15 stone rib vault with traces of original gilding

North doors, c. 1455, with vertical panelling and the three churchwardens' names carved on the outer face

The communion table is C17, with turned communion rails perhaps c. 1680-1710

Oak pulpit dated 1909, with linenfold panels

At the east end of the south aisle is a sunken area with early C14 encaustic floor tiles

Octagonal Perp font with panelled stem and sides

In the south aisle east, a low table tomb to Galfridus Allisley, d. 1441, with arcaded sides and on the top, inscribed figures of Allisley and his wife

Around the Allisley monument

two early Renaissance Boughton monuments: a two-tier design to Edward Boughton

Stiffly posed Mannerist figures

an obelisk in front of which a female figure points to heaven while nursing the dying man

Gothic frame with an angel and a mourning wife

Opposite, a very big Baroque standing monument to Sir William and Lady Boughton, 1716, signed by John Hunt of Northampton, a pupil of Grinling Gibbons

His most important work, with life-sized standing figures, an urn between them, and rather stiff drapery above

Above and behind it is a wrought-iron screen c. 1716, formerly around the Boughton monument

Over the chancel arch, Royal arms of 1796

Imposing C15 porches with vaulting (south)

doors of 1455 and image niches (north)

a knight of 1454

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