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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Bawtry

South Yorkshire

Church. C1200, C14, C15, altered and tower rebuilt early C18.

Architectural Features

cusped Tudor-arched 3-light window to bay 2 and cusped square-headed 3-light window to bay 3.

buttress on right of a blocked c1200 north door with shafted jambs, carved capitals and roll-moulded arch with hoodmould

buttress to left has a similar blocked window now cut by a blocked, narrow 2-centred-arched doorway with monarchs carved on hoodmould stops.

North aisle has round-arched vestry door with head-carved hoodmould stops on left of a partly-blocked 2-light, square-headed window now with image niche

Chancel has rendered east end with later plain mullions to a C13 pointed, 3-light window with hoodmould having carved-head stops and dog-tooth ornament

c1300 3-light window to north vestry has intersecting tracery with head-carved hoodmould stops.

Roof: as nave but with one carved boss.

Painted Coat of Arms beneath tower dated 1685

Stained glass: east window by Kempe, c1902.

Monuments: numerous late C18-early C19 wall monuments above arcades.

monument to the Cooke family to north of chancel has cherub beneath cartouche.