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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Old Bolingbroke

Lincolnshire

BOLINGBROKE MAIN STREET TF 36 NW (south side) 1/30 Church of St. Peter 3.2.67 and St. Paul G.V. II* Parish church. c.1360, possibly for John of Gaunt.

Architectural Features

West end of nave has stepped corner buttresses and a large 4 light C14 window with flowing tracery.

Continuously moulded doorway with above a 4 light C15 window with brattishing and panel tracery.

At the east end a 3 light window in C14 style.

C14 inner doorway with moulded pointed head, demi shafts with foliate capitals.

C14 4 bay nave arcade, now giving access to the new north aisle, with tall continuously moulded pointed arches, and filleted orders with moulded bases.

In the tower, the remains of a fireplace with 4 centred head, and above an inscribed tablet with stone surround, regarding a charity given by John Aldred, Rector, in 1653.

On the south wall an ornate C14 sedilia with crocketed pinnacles, and nodding ogee canopy.

Fittings all C19 apart from the C14 font which is octagonal, with elaborate stem with clustered chamfered shafts with pyramidal stepped bases.