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St Vincent

St Vincent

Burton CP

Lincolnshire

Tower of 3 stages, 1678, with plinth, 2 moulded string courses, embattled parapet, angle pinnacles and clasped stepped buttresses to first stage only.

Architectural Features

West doorway is a reused C12 opening, originally with a rounded head but somewhat reset to its present 3 centred shape.

Fine C17 fielded and panelled door with original hinges.

Further east are 2 two light C14 windows with ogee heads and flat hood moulds.

In the east wall is a C13 lancet.

East wall of chancel has a fine C14 3 light reticulated window with 3 cusped ogee headed lights, with hood mould and human head label stops.

South wall of chancel contains a C14 3 light window with ogee heads to the lights and a flat hood mould, and in the nave south wall are 2 similar windows.

1919 carved oak screen, pulpit, reader's desk

Font in the vestibule of St.Vincent's church presented by Maria Adelaide, Lady Monson in 1883

all other fittings including the font are C19.

Font in the vestibule of St.Vincent's church presented by Maria Adelaide, Lady Monson in 1883

© Richard Croft

At the west end, in the gallery, are 2 funeral hatchments.

There are 2 C17 chests, one in the vestibule and the other in the vestry.

In the east window is a circular panel of stained glass bearing the Monson arms.

Monuments: Christopher Randes, d.l639, alabaster wall plaque, central carving with deceased kneeling opposite wife with children behind set in a square frame with fishscale cornice and above obelisks flanking a cartouche of arms with memento mori.