Church of St Botolph

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SK 87 NE SAXILBY-WITH-INGLEBY CHURCH LANE

3/52 Church of St. Botolph 30-11-66 I

Parish church of St.Botolph. C12, C13, C15, 1819, 1908. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar, lead roofs. Western tower, clerestoried nave, chancel, north aisle and chapel. 3 stage tower rebuilt in 1908 with single lancets to each storey, paired lancets to belfry stage and battlemented parapet. West door also in a C13 style. West wall of north aisle has C15 4 centred 2 light window. North wall contains a C12 chamfered doorway with chamfered imposts. Further east is a second 2 light C15 window. The C15 nave clerestory is of 4 large 3 light windows under 4 centred arches with cusping to the window heads under continuous hood moulds. Above is a castellated parapet with gargoyles. C15 north chapel of ashlar with plinth, narrow buttresses and battlemented parapet to separate pitched roof. North wall has small narrow C15 doorway in plain surround and three 3 light windows with 4 centred arches. The east wall of the chapel has a large C15 5 light window with rectilinear panelled tracery in the upper part. Chancel also of ashlar, the east window of which is C15 of 5 lights with arched panelled tracery above. Chancel south wall matches the north chapel elevation, but hero the doorway also has decorated spandrels. Coursed limestone rubble south wall of nave has two 3 light C15 windows with cusped lights and 4 centred arches. 4 large clerestory lights match those to the north. Interior. C13 north arcade of 3 bays with quatrefoil piers and half round respond, all filleted. Piers have annular capitals and responds, double chamfered arches. The C13 tower arch is triple chamfered with square moulded imposts and triple responds. At the east end of the north aisle a moulded C15 4 centred arch leads into the former north cahapel, now vestry, and to the south of it a doorway loads to a rood staircase. The C13 single chamfered arch has keeled responds and annular capitals. In the north wall of the chancel are 2 wide C15 chamfered arches with an octagonal capital to the dividing pier. In the south side of the chancel is a triple arched sedilia with pendent lozenges between the arches and a C13 lobed piscina with hobnail decoration beneath a later ogee arch. The nave has a C15 tie I.)cam roof with moulded principals and carved bosses. The north aisle has a similar pent'roof but with Cl.8 reeded plaster decoration to the margins. The early C15 chancel and north chapel roofs match the rest. In the north aisle is a plain piscina. Stiles and upper tracery of the fine C15 chancel screen survive with crocketed ogees and panel tracery, the lower parts are restored In the chancel is a C17 chair, all. other fittings are C20 except 'for the font which is a C15 octagonal bowl and stem with cusped shields to the sides of the bowl. Monuments. In the north chapel is the Daubeny tomb of 1370: alabaster effigy of knight and lady on an elaborately panelled tomb chest, the knight in plate armour with feet on a lion and she in a long dress, cloak and head dress with her feet on a dog.

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