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St Winifred

St Winifred

Kingston on Soar

Nottinghamshire

Chancel and chancel aisle c.1540, remainder and restorations 1900 by R. Creed.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs.

The east chancel has a single arched window with 5 arched and cusped lights, each cusp terminating in a single orb, the window further decorated with carved.shields.

Single central canted bay with single arched window with 3 arched and cusped lights, each cusp terminating in a single orb, the window further decorated with carved quatrefoils.

Over the central window is a carved lion flanked by single smaller carved figures of beasts.

Over the lion in the parapet is a single panel with decorative carved heraldic shield.

Either side of the canted bay are single panels with decorative carved heraldic shields.

Over each is a single panel with carved lion.

The single central buttress is topped with an heraldic carving.

Over is a single niche with cusped canopy containing a single carved figure.

Between chancel and chancel aisle is the extraordinary and elaborate Babington monument.

4 piers, the bases and shafts decorated with blind tracery, carved heads, figures and figures set into hexagonals, capitals decorated with babes and tons and open tracery, support a large and elaborate arched canopy with single corner crocketed pinnacles further decorated with blind tracery.

The canopy decorated with angels holding shields, foliate, babes and tons and blind and open tracery.

To the left, linking the monument to the east wall of the nave is a depressed arch supported on moulded corbels.

Mounted on to the west wall is a carved panel decorated with lions holding a shield with carvings of children and tons, further decorated with fleur de lys and Tudor roses.

Alabaster reredos with blind tracery, alabaster font.

The chancel and chancel aisle roofs with C16 moulded beams and carved bosses, further decorated with blind tracery and carved angels.

The tower has 3 C19 monuments.