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St Botolph

St Botolph

Farnborough CP

Warwickshire

C12 origins

Architectural Features

chancel, nave, porch and lower part of tower mainly C14

Decorated style, with reticulated tracery and hood moulds with carved stops

Chancel has much restored C14 three-light east and C19 two-light north-east and south-east windows

C14 straight-headed 2-light north-west and south-west windows

South wall has wall monument of 1638, with depressed round arch and simple Ionic pilasters, decorated tympanum and moulded panel

C12 Romanesque doorway has unusual moulding of alternating large and small edge-rolls

C19 zigzag arch, but C12 fish-scale tympanum

Nave south wall partly rebuilt, with re-sited C12 corbels

Restored C13 eastern lancet

C14/C15 straight-headed 3-light window

4-bay C14 style aisle has buttresses with 2 offsets

Gargoyles

Transitional style chancel arch has re-used C12 lozenge chain moulding

C14 style arcade has octagonal pillars with moulded bases and capitals and 2 moulded orders

Re-used C16 Perpendicular nave roof with simply moulded timbers

Fittings: font has C19 octagonal bowl and stem

C14 base-mould and stop

Carved oak pulpit, altar rails, chancel stalls, pews and tower screen of c.1875

Stained glass: east window 1856 by Wailes

Other C19 glass

Monuments: head of an early C13 effigy

Wall monuments: chancel south: William Holbech 1717

brass set in moulded and decorated inner and outer frames with moulded cornice, and leaf bands