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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Old Somerby

Lincolnshire

C12, C13, C14, C15 with C18 and 1876 alterations and additions.

Architectural Features

2 late C14 square headed 3 light windows with reticulated tracery.

Ashlar clerestorey with plain parapet and 2 C15 2 light windows and triangular heads and hood moulds.

East window C19 restoration under original C14 decorated label stops.

Late C14 square headed 2 light altar window, C15 priests door, C14 2 light window to south side of chancel.

South aisle materials as chancel, with late C14 2 light east

west windows, and on south face a small C16 window under heavy hood mould, 4 light C15 window with 4 centre arch.

C13 opening, door has reset early ironwork hinges.

South clerestorey in ashlar, lead roof behind battlemented parapet three 2-light C15 windows with triangular heads of low pitch.

Tower arch with C14 responds but arch reconstructed in C18.

C12 chancel arch with semi-circular responds and nook shafts, both with scalloped capitals.

Nave roof C19 reusing C15 tie beams.

Fittings: seats and pulpit 1876 restoration although some reused C15 work in pulpit.

Reredos erected in 1901 in carved oak with figures by Zwink and Hems of Exeter.

Behind are set panels from C15 oak screen.

Monuments: C14 recumbent knight in chancel, at his feet his horse and groom.

Marble tablet 1684 to Dame Elizabeth Brownlowe, corinthian columns with an urn on top set in an open pediment, all garlanded.

Smaller tablet to her daughter Jane d. 1670, plus an epitaph to a virgin beneath.

In the chancel floor 2 small brass plates, one with Coat of Arms and text to Peregrine Bradshaw d. 1673, the other with Latin inscription to Robert Bawde d. 1509.

In the north aisle fragments of C14 stained glass of the arms of Threckingham family.

Late C 14 octagonal font with traceried designs to 6 panels.