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St Hybald

St Hybald

Ashby de la Launde

Lincolnshire

Plain tile roofs with ashlar coped gables and kneelers and cross finials.

Architectural Features

The top stage has pairs of pointed arched bell openings, on each face, with roll moulded surrounds, plus some re-used pieces of medieval sculpture buried in the walling.

Above a band with corner gargoyles and then battlements.

TF0554 : Font, St Hybald's church, Ashby de la Launde

C15 hexagonal, bowl and stem font with foliate panels.

TF0554 : Font, St Hybald's church, Ashby de la Launde

© Julian P Guffogg

C19 wooden pews, altar rail and reredos, plus C19 wooden roofs, that in the nave single hammer beam with carved angels.

Owner of Ashby Manor from 1580, he restored the church in 1608, and died in 1617.
He married twice, Firstly Mary Clopton, they had 6 children, then Elizabeth Colley, a widow. They had a son who died young.

Small monument to Edward King and his two wives, with three kneeling figures, dated 1617 on the south side of the chancel.

Owner of Ashby Manor from 1580, he restored the church in 1608, and died in 1617. He married twice, Firstly Mary Clopton, they had 6 children, then Elizabeth Colley, a widow. They had a son who died young.

© Julian P Guffogg

On the north side another C17 niches monument with three kneeling figures.