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St Cuthbert

St Cuthbert

Fishlake

South Yorkshire

C12 south door, also C13 but mostly C14

Architectural Features

C13 west door with pointed arch and hoodmould beneath large, transomed, 5-light window with cusped lights, traceried head and hoodmould.

Above south aisle are carvings of a bird and crown.

gargoyles to north and south.

remarkable C12 south door within has columns to round arch of 4 orders heavily carved with foliage, heads, animals and figures (described at length in Pevsner, p201, plate 5).

3-light windows, that against tower with Tudor-arched head, that to right of porch with square head, the window beyond with reticulated tracery and pointed arch.

C13 west window to south aisle has lancet lights beneath carved hoodmould.

Cavetto-moulded course with gargoyles beneath embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles and cross to east.

C12 round-arched priest's door in rubblework panel on left, buttress to right with square-headed window of 5 ogee lights beyond

South chapel, in aisle, has diagonal buttress with gargoyles and cusped 5-light windows to south and east

North wall has blocked, 2-bay, C13 arcade with buttress across eastern bay and triangular-headed 4-light window in west bay.

C13 aisle arcades with circular piers and capitals to double-chamfered arches, treble-shafted west responds, south-east respond with shafts and half-octagonal pier.

C15 nave roof with 1 boss and traces of ceilure in wastern bay.

C14 moulded chancel arch and quadrant-moulded west arches to chapel and organ chamber

Tudor arches into the chancel.

C13 arcade to former north chapel.

C15 chancel roof with cambered tie beams, punlins and carved boss.

Octagonal font: C14, on 2-step plinth with figure niche beneath canopy on each side

Mostly C19 fittings: earlier rood screen with mullions and ogee-headed opening.

Monuments: large tomb chest against chancel north wall to Richard Marshall (d1505) - plinth and side panels with inscriptions and carvings of books, chalices, tools, scales etc

no brass inlay remains.

Nearby a carved stone frame with inscription to Robert Simpson (d1704)

Brasses in south chapel to Hannah Perkins (d1669) and Richard Perkins N. Pevsner, B.O.E., 1967.ed.