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St. Peter

St. Peter

Ingoldsby

Lincolnshire

C13, C14, C15, restored in 1879 by James Fowler of Louth.

Architectural Features

The ashlar C14 tower has three stages with triple moulded plinth and two string courses with stepped corner buttresses.

The west side has a two light C14 window with curvilinear tracery, hood mould and head stops in the first stage.

All faces have C14 two light with reticulated tracery belfry openings.

The north side of the nave and blank clerestorey is in coursed limestone rubble on its upper part and has a slate roof with decorated ridge tiles, and a stone coped gable with cross fleury to ridge.

There is a blocked north door, and two three-light C15 windows with panel tracery and hood moulds.

It has a single two light C15 window with cusped tracery and four centre head and a blocked four centre window.

The east window sits on a splayed string course, and is three light C15 with triangular head, and hood mould.

The south side has an off centre small priets door with four centre head flanked by single C15 two light windows with four centre heads.

The west window is C14 two light with reticulated tracery.

The south face has moulded plinth and cornice and two two-light C14 windows with recut reticulated tracery, flat heads and hood moulds.

Inside the porch is a reset C14 niche with ogee head, small vault and pinnacles.

The south doorway has a plain moulded surround, and could be C13.

The western south aisle window is C13 lancet.

The clerestorey has three C15 two light windows with reticulated tracery under a continuous hood mould.

The three bay south arcade is C13 with double chamfered pointed arches and two octagonal piers

The tower arch is a C14 small opening and the tower floor is supported on corbels which are reused C13 nook shaft capitals The C14 chancel arch has octagonal responds.

In the south aisle is a cusped piscina containing a statue, said to be Roman.

The nave and chancel roof, pews, pulpit, lectern and Minton tiled floor date from the 1879 restoration.

Angels round the font.  These are part of the Millennium art project created by  the late Roger Heaton.  It has been erected again for the 24th anniversary.

The octagonal font is 15th century.  The church is grade I listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253206?section=official-list-entry .

C15 octagonal font with shields in pointed quatrefoils.

Angels round the font. These are part of the Millennium art project created by the late Roger Heaton. It has been erected again for the 24th anniversary. The octagonal font is 15th century. The church is grade I listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253206?section=official-list-entry .

© Bob Harvey

Monuments

In the chancel is a tomb to Bartholomew Armyne of Osgodby d. 1605.

A stone tablet eared and shouldered, with deaths head mask in circle on top, to Jane Chaworth d. 1606.