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St Botolph

St Botolph

Boston

Lincolnshire

1309 work commenced on chancel, nave and aisles completed 1390, tower started C1450

Architectural Features

completed 1520.

The north aisle has a moulded plinth and parapet, plain stepped buttresses with decorated gablettes, figures and pinnacles.

In the west end a C15 5-light window.

The 2nd bay from the west has a doorway with pointed moulded surround and traceried C14 door.

The clerestorey is of 14 bays with closely set 2-light windows, quatrefoil frieze to parapet and flat pilaster buttresses with decorated pinnacles with statue niches, some containing original carved figures.

The inner doorway has 3 thin shafts and moulded surround and late C14 traceried door.

High up, at the top of the second stage is a star lierne vault by GG Pace, using the springers of an unexecuted medieval vault.

The south doorway has on the inside 2 wide chamfers and hood mould on head stops, and the dovetailed planks of the C14 door can be seen.

Next is the doorway to the porch parvise, and a blocked door to the demolished chapel of the Corpus Christi Guild, containing a reset medieval brass.

FITTINGS: include an octagonal C19 font in elaborate C14 style, by Edward Welby Pugin, on large stepped stone plinth.

Pulpit of 1612, octagonal on carved polygonal shaft, with richly carved panels, gadrooned arches, paired fluted Ionic columns, carved back panel, tester with full cornice and obelisk finials.

Choir stalls of c1390 with good misericords.

C17 parish chest.

Door knocker on south tower door of C13 with lion's head.

Charles I coat-of-arms and 10 hatchments in the tower.

A window in memory of Benjamin Dyer d.1931 and his wife Katherine d.1939.
The window depicts four figures representing the Guilds of Boston.
Saints Peter and Paul frame St George and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patron Saint of the largest Guild.
Below commemorates a performance of handel's Messiah at a Festival of Music, 1807, and The American Ambassador re-opening the refurbished Cotton Chapel, originally known as the Founder's chapel, in 1857. 
Glass by H. Grylls, 1947.

Stained glass: by M & A O'Connor 1853, Kempe 1889, Burlison and Grylls 1944 and others.

A window in memory of Benjamin Dyer d.1931 and his wife Katherine d.1939. The window depicts four figures representing the Guilds of Boston. Saints Peter and Paul frame St George and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patron Saint of the largest Guild. Below commemorates a performance of handel's Messiah at a Festival of Music, 1807, and The American Ambassador re-opening the refurbished Cotton Chapel, originally known as the Founder's chapel, in 1857. Glass by H. Grylls, 1947.

© Julian P Guffogg

MONUMENTS: include at west end of north aisle an incised slab of Tournai marble 1312 to a Hanseatic merchant.

2 busts of c1400 - Walter Pescod and wife d 1398 and a priest c1400.

In south aisle a c1400 brass, and C15 alabaster knight on tombchest, with ogee panels and angels, and alabaster lady, possibly Dame Margaret Tilney.