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St Mary and St Nicholas

St Mary And St Nicholas

Wrangle

Lincolnshire

TF 45 SW 3/116 26.1.67 WRANGLE CHURCH LANE (west side) Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas G.V. I Parish church. c.1300, C13, C14, c.1345-71, C15, C16, restored 1875-8 by Ewan Christian.

Architectural Features

Above a 4 light C15 window with panel tracery.

North aisle has facetted stair tower and C16 4 light west window, battlemented parapet, corner pinnacles and stepped buttresses.

5 matching C15 5 light windows with cusped heads to the lights and panel tracery.

Larger C15 4 light east window.

C14 chancel with slate roof has 2 three light reticulated windows and single curvilinear traceried window.

Tall 5 light reticulated east window of 1345-71.

On the south side are 5 three light C15 windows with panel tracery in deeply moulded reveals, and a 4 light west window.

The C15 2 storey porch has pointed outer arch with above a 3 light parvise window with cusped heads to the lights, above is a small niche containing a statue.

C13 inner doorway with paired shafts to the reveals, hobnail annular capitals, dogtooth moulding, deeply moulded pointed arch.

Tall C14 6 bay nave arcades with octagonal piers and moulded arches.

Fine c.1200 tower arch with shafted reveals, waterleaf capitals, a hollow chamfer, keeled roll, and order of wedge shaped motifs with lozenged hood.

C14 chancel arch with octagonal reveals, double shafted, with fleurons to octagonal imposts.

C14 nave roof having braced tie beams to low crown posts, figured corbels.

The north aisle matches and in the south aisle is a C15 roof having moulded principals, bosses and angels.

In north aisle windows are fragments of C15 glass including demi figures and angels.

Early C17 octagonal pulpit having Ionic columns supporting fluted frieze, enriched with straps.

C19 ornate carved wooden gilded reredos.

Font, 1724, plain octagonal bowl, with sunk panels, fluted stem, 3 steps.

Monuments.

TF4250 : Sir John Reade Brass, Ss Mary & Nicholas church, Wrangle

Brasses of John Reade d. 1503, wife and children, in chancelfloor.

TF4250 : Sir John Reade Brass, Ss Mary & Nicholas church, Wrangle

© J.Hannan-Briggs

To Sir John Read, d. 1626, large alabaster sideboard tomb, having deceased and wife lying on a tomb chest, carved with weepers.