Church Heritage Record 914022

West tower, nave with north and south aisles, chancel with north and south chapels (the chancel projecting only one further bay east), north-west and south-west shallow porches; octagonal stair-turrets project slightly from the northwest corner of the north chapel and the south-west corner of the south chapel.

All of c.1500, the tower pinnacles (and perhaps other modifications) of 1638 - otherwise very little to detract from the unity of style and period.

The tower is all built of ashlar (perhaps entirely a 17th century refacing), and is of four stages with a moulded plinth and base-frieze of quatrefoil panels and a frieze of trefoil-headed blank panels at the top below the embattled parapet. Jt the four corners are panelled polygonal buttresses, with trefoiled heads and simple tracery below the string-courses dividing the stages of the tower; rising from these corner buttresses are the magnificently lofty pinnacles, also panelled and richly crocketted. The crockets are pierced - a nice 17th century touch, which readily distinguishes them from the conventionalmedieval crocket. The west doorway is recessed, with a small pointed tunnel-vault; above it is the large west window, of five cinquefoiled and transomed lights under a four-centred head with moulded jambs and a label which is obviously 19th/20th century restoration; mullions and transom also renewed. In the east wall of the tower is a doorway with bhamfered jambs and four-centred head opening on to the nave'roof; on the other three sides, at a slightly higher level just above the string course dividing the second from the third stage, is a window of two trefoiled lights beneath a square head, with characteristic late Perpendicular hoodmould. Above these towards the top of the third stago on the same three sides, are circular windows plainly of the 17th century. The final stage is the belfry, and here there is the same broad opening under a slightly pointed label-moulding on all four sides: each is of four main trefoiled lights with mullions and transom.

The body of the church, mostly of cornbrash rubble with dressings of Barnack and Ketton stone, is of c.1500. It is indeed-noteworthy as a complete example of its period. The chancel has an embattled parapet with a pierced gable-cross. The east window is of five lights, with Perpendicular tracery in the head, and much of it is 19th century renewal. In the north wall is a three-light window, with modern tracery, in a segmental pointed head with a moulded label; the internal recess is carried down to form a seat. 

The chancel arch is two-centred. The north and south chapels each have five light east windows their tracery renewed, and side windows of four lights - all under four central heads. The same patter is followed for the aisle windows and, as there is almost no stained glast at all, the interior is consequently beautifully light. In the angles between the chapels, and their respective aisles are octagonal stair-turrets which apparently gave access to the former rood-loft, now vanished: the north turret also provides access to the roof. The nave has an embattled parapet with decayed gargoyles. There is a clerestory with four windows on each side, the three easternmost being of three cinque-foiled lights and westernmost of five cinquefoiled lights - all with four-centred heads, moulded jambs, labels and rear-arches. Inside, the walls are plastered. The arcades are of four bays, the three easternmost with two-centred arches and the wider westernmost bay with a four-centred arch. The piers and their capitals have a complex Perpendicular section towards the arch openings only. The north and south faces of each pier and respond have attached shafts carried up to support the roof principals. At the outer walls of the aisles, also, are attached shafts between the bays carried up to support the roof trusses. At the east of the arcades, on either side, are low recesses at the former rood-loft level each with moulded jambs and four-centrad heads and now blocked. The best of the roofs is that of the nave, which has a low-pitched tie-beam roof of five bays. The main tiebeams have curved braces and wall-posts standing on stone wall-shafts.