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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Boston

Lincolnshire

C13, C14, C15, C17, C18, additions 1869-75 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

Architectural Features

MATERIALS: squared limestone rubble, ashlar, red brick, lead and plain tile roofs.

To the belfry stage on each side a C15 2-light louvred opening with cusped lights, hollow moulded surround and hood mould.

The south and north sides have plain lower stages, and a simple 2-light C17 opening beneath the belfry stage.

The west side has C19 double doors in moulded surround with hood mould and above a C19 5-light window in Perpendicular style in hollow moulded late C14 surround.

The C19 vestry is low, with a moulded parapet and a 2-light and 3-light window to the north side and 4-light window in the east end, all in C16 style.

Set in the north wall is part of a C13 gravestone with a human head beneath a trefoil, and part of a stiff leaf capital.

In the east end is a 5-light lancet east window in thin C13 style.

On the south side is a reused 3-light C17 window with cross mullion and cusped heads.

INTERIOR: late C13 6-bay nave arcades, with square piers with hollowed-out shafts in the 4 main directions, into which are set a slender shaft with stiff leaf capitals.

Tall continuously moulded late C14 tower arch, with 3 steps up to tower floor.

Broad pointed C19 chancel arch on C13 half round shafts on human head corbels.

FITTINGS: include font of 1901, octagonal with carved quatrefoils, by JO Scott.

Tall elaborate wooden font cover, partly C17.

Earlier font dated 1660 now used as communion table base.

Octagonal Jacobean pulpit, with flat cut-out cockerels supporting the reading ledge.

STAINED GLASS: in north aisle of 1927 by Morris and Co.

Stained glass in south aisle of 1896 by Swaine, Bourne and Co.