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St Martin of Tours Church and boundary walls

St Martin Of Tours Church And Boundary Walls

Bilborough

Nottinghamshire

A C14 church with mid-C15 tower.

Architectural Features

The roofs have slate tile coverings.

It has a pitched roof with its gable to the south-east where there is a C21 glass door, the apex of the gable has a Greek cross finial.

Over the door is an ogee arch surround decorated with crockets and sprung from corbels with king and queen carved heads.

The nave has a C19 arch braced roof, the chancel has a C19 barrel vaulted ceiling with carved floral bosses.

The panelled oak pulpit and pews are C19.

The font is C17, stone, plain and octagonal on a re-used older base.

A monument to Edmund Helwys , father of Thomas Helwys, an early Baptist is on the south-eastern wall of the chancel at its east end.

The Gibbs Annunciation mural is in two parts, with one life-sized figure either side of the east window in the chancel