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St Mary Le Wigford

St Mary Le Wigford

Bracebridge

Lincolnshire

EXTERIOR: west tower, C11, 2 stages, has quoins, string course and eaves band, and crenellated parapet.

Architectural Features

A Roman inscription is on the bottom half with Saxon writing on the top. Now sited on St Mary-le-Wigford next to the signal box. 
Roman tombstone of a Gaul named Sacer. The inscription translates as "In the memory of the departed; to the name of Sacer, son of Bruscus, a Senonian citizen, and Carssouna his wife and Quintus his son"

To its right, a reset stone with Roman and Anglo-Saxon inscriptions.

A Roman inscription is on the bottom half with Saxon writing on the top. Now sited on St Mary-le-Wigford next to the signal box. Roman tombstone of a Gaul named Sacer. The inscription translates as "In the memory of the departed; to the name of Sacer, son of Bruscus, a Senonian citizen, and Carssouna his wife and Quintus his son"

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Recessed bell stage has round headed twin openings with mid wall shafts and various C11 capitals.

North aisle and chapel, C13, 4 bays, has dentilled eaves and sill band to north-east, and a C19 side wall stack.

To their right, 2 similar windows, C19 and C14.

Reset C13 moulded south door with double shafts.

To south, C20 vestry with a reset C13 roll moulded arch with shafts and scallop capitals, and 2 interlace panels.

North arcade, C13, 3 bays, has concave sided octagonal piers with 4 ringed shafts and stiff-leaf capitals.

Stained glass windows, 1877, by Clayton & Bell.

North aisle has a C13 doorway with keeled roll moulding and shafts.

Reset stained glass north-east window, mid C19.

North chapel has an early C14 keel moulded tomb recess with an effigy.

East window has a keel moulded surround and stained glass, 1865.

FITTINGS include a C15 buttressed octagonal font, 2 brass lecterns, traceried stalls and desks, all C19.

Brass chandelier c1720.

MEMORIALS include and alabaster chest tomb, 1618, possibly by Maximilian Colt to Sir Thomas Grantham, with 2 effigies and shields in quatrefoils.

Reset late C16 floor slab.