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St Helen

St Helen

Mareham le Fen

Lincolnshire

Late C13, early C14, late C14, C15, C16, 1879 partial rebuilding of exterior, 1974 vestry extension.

Architectural Features

C19 tracery in C15 surround.

In the north wall is a late C13 window now with C19 intersecting tracery.

The north doorway is C16, with Tudor arched head and shields to the spandrels of the moulded square surround.

Beyond is a further 3 light intersecting traceried window and a 4 light C15 window.

C15 south aisle, with crocketed pinnacles has 2 three light windows with cusped heads to the lights and segmental heads, with hood moulds and human head stops.

The inner doorway is C14, continuously moulded with fleurons to the hollow middle order.

Further west a 3 light intersecting traceried window, and the angle pinnacle at the west end has a carving of St. George and the Dragon in a cusped niche.

Nave arcades are of 4 bays, C14, with double chamfered arches, octagonal piers, floriate capitals and responds.

Glass by Abbott & Co. Ltd of Lancaster, depicting The Ascension with St John and the Virgin Mary.
Given by Frederick J. Williamson, Rector 1907-1919 and Mary Elizabeth his wife.
He died in 1938 aged 80.

Stained glass in south aisle of 1919.

Glass by Abbott & Co. Ltd of Lancaster, depicting The Ascension with St John and the Virgin Mary. Given by Frederick J. Williamson, Rector 1907-1919 and Mary Elizabeth his wife. He died in 1938 aged 80.

© Julian P Guffogg

Fittings are all C19 apart from the octagonal C14 font with trefoils and human heads to the sides, moulded fleurons to rim.