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St Andrew

St Andrew

Pickworth

Lincolnshire

TF 03 SW 6/56 20-9-66 PICKWORTH CHURCH LANE Church of St. Andrew I Parish Church: C12, C13, C14, C15

Architectural Features

Ashlar and coursed limestone rubble with slate, lead and plain tile roofs.

C12 tower refaced

raised in ashlar in mid C14 having 3 stages with triple moulded plinth and 2 string courses.

West side has in 1st stage C14 single light with ogee tracery

in 2nd stage a small recent C12 round headed light.

To 3rd stage, on all faces, are 2 light C14 belfry openings with reticulated tracery.

North aisle, part ashlar, part coursed rubble with plain tile roof, has plain plinth, low string course at cill level and splayed cornice at eaves.

The west window is C13 2 light with geometric tracery.

A central C14 door with hood mould and simple label stops is flanked by 2 reticulated traceried 3 light windows with flat heads and hood moulds.

5 shallow stepped buttresses form 4 bays each having late C14 triangular headed 2 light windows with reticulated tracery.

The north window is C14 3 light with flowing reticulated tracery.

The east end has corner buttresses and a C14 4 light curvilinear traceried window with hood mould.

The south side has a C14 3 light window with flowing reticulated tracery and hood mould.

An C18 tablet with moulded surround refers to a will to uphold an adjacent monument.

In the corner between chancel and south aisle is a C14 ogee headed single light with transom.

The east south aisle window is a C14 2 light reticulated traceried window.

The 2 easternmost bays have 2 C14 3 light windows with reticulated tracery, with square heads

The south porch is ashlar with slate roof and is dated 1659 on the east angle corner buttress.

To either side are large gargoyles and the parapet is heavily battlemented.

The doorway has C13 nook shafts

a C14 arch with hood mould and human mask stops.

The door is C14 and has decorated hinges and straps.

The arches are C14 but the bases, piers

responds could be reused C12.

Against the tower wall is a large buttress built off a circular base, which could mark the position of the earlier C12 aisle.

The south aisle has a piscina with ogee head at the west end and a piscina on a horizontal figure with a highly decorated crocketed ogee head with finial and human mask label stops at the east end.

Also 2 statue brackets with a headless C14 painted figure of Mary Magdalene in the northern one.

The north aisle has a blocked door, C14 piscina and further statue bracket.

The tower has a small plain double chamfered C13 pointed arch.

The nave roof is C15 arch braced with moulded oak beams and purlins.

The C14 chancel arch is double chamfered and without responds.

In the chancel is a C14 sedilia with 3 ogee arches and a crocketed and pinnacled small ogee piscina.

The roof is C17.

The C14 rood screen is in 8 panels with 2 centrally placed over the door opening.

The pews are C14 with bench ends having carved panels depicting elements of tracery design.

The front pair incorporate C14 reused tracery.

The 2 decker pulpit is dated "RSC 1693".

There is C17 oak wainscott panelling to the west end of the south aisle.

unmodified 13th century font, one of the oldest features in the church.  The plain font cover appears to be early 20th century.

The blocked up North Door can be seen through the arch.

The font is a C12 circular tub on octagonal base.

unmodified 13th century font, one of the oldest features in the church. The plain font cover appears to be early 20th century. The blocked up North Door can be seen through the arch.

© Bob Harvey

The only monument is a wooden memorial tablet on the west wall of the nave to Thomas Gibson d. 1622.

Over the chancel arch, to the north clerestorey and part of the south clerestorey are C14 wall paintings dated to c.1380 by Mr. Clive Rouse.

Over the chancel is a doom, the top now obscured by the lower C15 roof.

Over these paintings are stencil patterns of sexfoils and cinque foils of C15.

On the south aisle are C17 wall paintings of texts.

The C14 rebuilding of the church is said to date from 1356, prabably by the Pickworth family.