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St Wystan

St Wystan

Repton CP

Derbyshire

C9,C13,C14,C15, restoration 1885-6 by Arthur Blomfield.

Architectural Features

Plain tile and lead roofs.

The west elevation has a doorway with moulded mid C14 arch and hoodmould.

Small trefoiled lancet above and mid C14 2-light bell openings with transom and ogee hoodmould.

Quatrefoil frieze and castellated parapet, gargoyles and four pinnacles.

Lean-to C13 north aisle with moulded parapet.

Single chamfered lancet, doorway with colonnettes and moulded arch, early C14 window with Y-tracery, 3-light window of stepped lancet lights and a window with Y-tracery.

C15 clerestory with seven 2-light windows of cusped four-centred arches under square heads.

early C14 south aisle has an east window of three stepped lancets and a single lancet to the west.

C15 two storey gabled porch with moulded doorway.

To the left of the porch an early C14 window of three lancet lights.

To the right again a lean-to south transept chapel with plain moulded parapet, angle buttresses, a chimney in the north west angle, a priest's doorway with moulded arch and a 4-light south window under flat arch with curious cusped lozenge tracery, probably C15.

Rectangular 3-light C16 window to the crypt.

Between the lintels of these windows and the sill level of the C14 east window is a section of walling of roughly squared blocks of brown stone with massive flat quoins, unique to Repton.

C13 north lancet and a similar C20 south lancet incorporating fragments of a blocked original.

Interior: The Anglo-Saxon crypt is reached by two contemporary staircases from the aisles.

The south porch has C15 plank doors with wrought iron hinges.

C15 plank doors.

Early C14 six bay arcades, the eastern bays of 1854.

Monuments: George and Ellen Waklin +1617 and +1614 (south transept) the two figures facing each other across a prayer desk, their child below.

Slate tablet to Thomas Whitehead +1645 (south transept) erected in 1802 and commemorating a charity he set up.

In the south aisle, an incised alabaster slab to Gilbert Thacker +1563.

Brass eagle lectern of 1877.

Royal Arms over the south door dated 1772.

Rich C19 octagonal font.

Stained glass by Powells.