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St Edith

St Edith

Grimoldby

Lincolnshire

Mid C14 tower re-furbished in C15.

Architectural Features

C14 blocked west doorway with pointed head, chamfered surround in one, hood mould and head label stops.

Pointed C15 window above with 2 round cusped lights, panel tracery, hood mould and head label stops.

Moulded eaves with grotesque gargoyles at corners, parapet above with corner pinnacles.

Porch interior with pointed C15 doorway with deeply moulded head and jambs in one, hood mould and C15 door with lower band of cusped tracery and studded ribs.

Stoup in north-west corner, re- using medieval fragments, with polygonal bowl and pedestal.

3 C14 windows alternate with 3 two stage buttresses, each of the former with pointed heads, 3 cusped ogee headed lights, tracery and hood moulds.

Moulded eaves above with large, grotesque gargoyle heads and battlements above.

C14 clerestorey above with 4 pointed windows, each with 2 cusped, ogee headed lights and mouchette.

Moulded eaves above with large gargoyle heads and parapet.

East end of north aisle with pointed, 3 light, C14 window, all with cusped, ogee heads, reticulated tracery and hood mould.

East end with 2 stage angle buttresses and large C15 window with flattened triangular head, 5 cusped, ogee headed lights, panel tracery and hood mould.

South side of chancel with 2 pointed windows each with 3 cusped, ogee headed lights, mouchettes and hood mould, with pointed blocked C15 doorway in between with bowtell moulded head and jambs in one, and hood mould running into string course to left and right.

East end of south aisle with pointed C14 window with 3 cusped, ogee headed lights, cusped mouchettes and hood mould

Moulded eaves above, with large gargoyle heads and battlements.

Moulded eaves above with large gargoyle heads, parapet above.

C14 interior tower arch with triple chamfered head dying into rectangular jambs.

Mid C13 north and south arcades of 4 bays with double cavetto moulded pointed heads, octagonal piers and polygonal responds.

C14 double cavetto pointed chancel arch with polygonal responds.

Dado of C15 screen with 8 panels divided by central opening flanked by openwork traceried 'buttresses', each panel with rich cusped panel tracery with rosettes.

Pulpit incorporating C15 richly traceried panels with ornate rosettes re-used from C15 bench ends.

Early C15 octagonal font with cusped panels containing shields and blind traceried, cusped pedestal.

C18 eagle lectern.

Fragments of medieval stained glass in north aisle window.

Fine C16 nave tiebeam queen post roof with partially intact cusping, re-used C13 angels, richly carved rosette bosses on ashlar corbels.

Corbels in north and south aisles, supporting C16 roof in north aisle.

Monument on north wall of nave to William Caley, died 1787, including roundel containing cross.