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Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence

Sedgebrook

Lincolnshire

Mid C15, with early C13 north arcade

Architectural Features

C14 chancel arch and other fragments.

Chancel and south chapel paid for by Sir John Markham, 1468.

Square west tower, 3 stages, has clasping buttresses to the lower stages and angle buttresses above, chamfered string courses, crenellated parapet and gargoyles.

To west, a Tudor arched doorway with hood mould, mask stops and shields in the spandrels.

Chancel has a C14 moulded arch with mutilated hood mould and clustered shaft responds, and a restored perpendicular wooden screen.

The east bay has brackets to east and west, on ornate angel corbels.

North side has to east a Tudor arched roll moulded doorway and a small ogee piscina.

Nave has early C13 north arcade, 3 bays, with double chamfered round arches, linked hood mould and round piers.

C15 south arcade has moulded pointed arches with hood moulds, and octagonal piers.

11th century scalloped font in St.Lawrence's church

Fittings include octagonal C11 scalloped font, restored traceried panelled oak pulpit dated 1634, on C19 stone base,

11th century scalloped font in St.Lawrence's church

© Richard Croft

several benches and stalls, C14

C15, with unusual poppyheads and candle holders.

Memorials include a small incised slab, 1494, to Dorothy Markham.