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St Mary

St Mary

Swineshead

Lincolnshire

TF 24 SW SWINESHEAD SOUTH STREET (west side) 4/84 Church of St. Mary 26.1.67 G.V. I Parish church. c.1300, early C14, late C14, C15, 1767, chancel rebuilt 1848 by Stephen Lavin.

Architectural Features

Tall 3 stage late C14 ashlar tower with stepped corner buttresses having crocketed gablettes, topped by battlemented parapet.

Above a 2 light window with C14 cusped curvilinear tracery.

C15 north aisle west window 4 light with panel tracery, in chamfered surround.

C14 north door retaining original reticulated traceried decoration and muntins with continuously moulded pointed surround.

6 C14 2 light clerestorey windows, with reticulated tracery, corbel table with grotesque heads, battlemented parapet.

The C19 chancel and vestry contain 3 and 4 light windows in C15 style.

C14 south aisle having 4 light reticulated windows, one each to the east and the west and 6 to the south.

Gabled C14 porch with octagonal reveals to double chamfered outer arch, ballflower capitals.

The side walls have 5 crocketed canopies separated by pinnacles containing geometric figures.

The south door is C14 with reticulated tracery and ogee wicket set in a wave moulded pointed arch. c.1300 6 bay nave arcades, with filleted quatrefoil piers with annular capitals and square bases, pointed triple chamfered arches with human head stops, C14 tower with eastern side arches, sunk wave mouldings to reveals, and moulded triple stepped heads, 8 ribbed vault to tower with bell rope circle.

C14 nave roof with braced tie beams, queen posts and passing braces.

C15 north aisle roof with moulded principals and rafters.

C14 south aisle roof, with principals and purlins.

Hammerbeam roof supported on carved stone corbels.

East window stained glass by Clayton and Bell 1875.

C19 carved wooden reredos altar rails and choir stalls.

C15 oak chancel screen of 6 paired lights with central cusped ogee opening.

C19 pulpit.

Plain C14 octagonal font with slightly concave panels.

Monuments.

In the chancel black marble wall plaque to Sir John Lockton, d. 1610, of Swineshead Abbey, beneath a repositioned alabaster frieze of weepers.