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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Burgh Le Marsh

Lincolnshire

BURGH LE MARSH HIGH STREET TF 56 NW (east side) 2/12 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul 3.2.67 G.V. I Parish church. c.1500, 1702, late C18, restored c.1871.

Architectural Features

Small projecting gargoyle to right.

Finial rises from between bell openings to moulded eaves with small sculptural motifs, projecting corner gargoyles, quatrefoil frieze and battlements with small finials.

East gable end of nave with squat gargoyle supporting central finial, crocketed frieze and corner pinnacles.

C19 organ chamber re- using C16 fabric.

C16 north window with semi-circular head, 3 semi-circular headed lights, cusped reticulated tracery and broken hood mould.

East end of C16 south aisle with plinth and window with flattened triangular head, continuous moulded surround, 3 semi-circular headed lights, panel tracery somewhat askew and sill band.

South side with 3 similar windows, but C19 replacements and all with hood moulds and C16 head label stops.

C19 screen set under, incorporating some C16 fabric.

East end of south aisle with small aumbry and C19 screens in C17 style with fluted columns, fret- work bands and pendant finials.

Chancel arch with C16 double chamfered, pointed head and C19 polygonal responds and screen, the latter topped with highly painted C20 figures.

C16 tie beam roof with straight braces and small rectangular plaques, over nave.

Pulpit inscribed '1623 John Hovlden' on book rest and flanked by naked male figures wearing ruffs and ionic capital headresses.

Slender coved stalk supports ornate hexagonal pulpit to which 4 shallow steps give access, back panel and hexagonal sounding board

TF5065 : Burgh le Marsh, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church: The font (detail)

C19 octagonal font with ornate octagonal font cover of c.1623, openwork with paired fluted columns, semi- circular headed archways, foliate and fretwork ornament

TF5065 : Burgh le Marsh, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church: The font (detail)

© Michael Garlick

Large wooden eagle lectern of 1874, by Jabez Good, local barber and signpainter.

Broken drum font and C19 stoup by north door.

Paintings of St. Peter and St. Paul, and hatchment inside tower.

Monuments include one to Charlotte and Mary Cooke, died 1812, in white and grey marble

brass plaque to Leonard Palma, died 1610.

White marble monument with pediment and torches to the Rev. William Barnes, died 1838

2 white marble monuments with urns and palms on black marble fields to the William Cookes, died 1831 and 1844, both by E. Gaffin

and a white and grey monument to John Fuler, died 1804.