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Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Window
Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Window
Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Window

Window in the south aisle of the nave, showing typical Perpendicular tracery.

August 2013

Addlethorpe, St Nicholas church, window
Algarkirk, Sts Peter & Paul, South Transept, South Window
Algarkirk, Sts Peter & Paul, South Transept, South Window
Algarkirk, Sts Peter & Paul, South Transept, South Window

"The south window is of 7 lights with memorable cusped flowing tracery, replete with daggers, mouchettes and quatrefoils all of the finest"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1164857?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2024

Algarkirk, St Peter and St Paul Church, window
Algarkirk, Sts Peter & Paul, Window
Algarkirk, Sts Peter & Paul, Window
Algarkirk, Sts Peter & Paul, Window

A north facing window illuminated by sunlight streaming through from the south side.

DB 11 November 2024

Algarkirk, St Peter and St Paul Church
Anderby, St Andrew, window
Anderby, St Andrew, window
Anderby, St Andrew, window

Nave window, arched and keyed in, typical of the Georgian period.

September 2018

Anderby, St Andrew, window
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Windows
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Windows
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Windows

Adjacent windows on the south side of the nave at St Peter's have Decorated tracery, i.e. early 14th century.

There indications that there was a south arcade in an earlier period.

August 2014

Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, windows
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Tower, Window
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Tower, Window
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Tower, Window

"Window in lowest storey on west side has C12 details but is probably a reconstruction of the C18 with nook shafts, round head with label stops and a wavy line in the outer arch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image, window
Belton (Axholme), All Saints, window
Belton (Axholme), All Saints, window
Belton (Axholme), All Saints, window

This window, one of two identical ones in the south aisle, is in typical perpendicular style.

August 2015

Belton Axholme, All Saints church, window
Bigby, All Saints, Window
Bigby, All Saints, Window
Bigby, All Saints, Window

 Bigby All Saints from chancel side window

This window gives light on the south side of the sanctuary. It appears to be part of the restoration of 1876. It is perhaps narrower than that there before, as its insertion has involved a variety of types of masonry, including limestone, ironstone and chalk.

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church
Bourne, St Peter & St Paul, window
Bourne, St Peter & St Paul, window
Bourne, St Peter & St Paul, window

Window in Perpendicular style in the south aisle.

October 2017

Bourne, window, St Peter & St Paul
Broughton, St Mary
Broughton, St Mary
Broughton, St Mary

The small window in the south elevation of the Anglo-Saxon tower.

The lower stage of the tower with its herringbone masonry dates from the 11th century.

As at Barton on Humber, it is thought that this formed the nave of the early church.

February 2015

Broughton, St Mary church, window
Broughton, St Mary
Broughton, St Mary
Broughton, St Mary

Window in the south aisle, in Perpendicular style.

February 2015

Broughton, St Mary church
Burringham, St John Baptist, Nave Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, Nave Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, Nave Window

This two-light window on the south wall of the nave is in pointed Early English style.

The positions of the original black bricks in the window head and arch can just be discerned, though the black pigment has long since disappeared.

KR, May 2023
Burringham, St John Baptist, nave window
Burringham, St John Baptist, Trefoil Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, Trefoil Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, Trefoil Window

The window in the south wall of the tower and over the porch is composed of three large trefoil openings.

Decorative features – limestone blocks, black bricks - are similar to those in the more conventional windows elsewhere

KR, May 2023
Burringham, St John Baptist, trefoil, window
Burringham, St John Baptist, West Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, West Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, West Window

The largest window in the church is this three-light in the west wall of the tower.

Like the two-light windows in the chancel, small blocks of limestone provide decorative highlights.

As with other widows, there would have been extensive use of black bricks in simple patterns around the window head.

KR, May 2023
Burringham, St John Baptist
Burringham, St John Baptist, Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, Window
Burringham, St John Baptist, Window

This single-light window on the north side of the nave is sheltered from the sun and prevailing westerly wind.

This is the only location on the outer walls of the church where the original black pigment used for creating contrasting bricks has survived.

KR, May 2023
Burringham, St John Baptist, window
Cabourne, St Nicholas, Low-Side Window
Cabourne, St Nicholas, Low-Side Window
Cabourne, St Nicholas, Low-Side Window

A rare example of a surviving, though blocked, low-side window.

These windows are always just to the east of the chancel arch, low in the wall, were originally fitted with wooden shutters and mostly on the south side of the chancel.

Though there have been a number of explanations for the use of such windows, that of being for the giving of communion to lepers is now discredited.

Opinion is divided between their being for ringing a hand-held Sanctus bell or for opening to disperse the smoke of incense.

Jean Howard, August 2023

Cabourne, St Nicholas Church, Low-Side Window
Cabourne, St Nicholas, Nave Window
Cabourne, St Nicholas, Nave Window
Cabourne, St Nicholas, Nave Window

This window, to the west of the south porch, is the only example from the fifteenth century at St Nicoholas's.

Jean Howard, August 2023

Cabourne, St Nicholas Church, window
Coates by Stow, St Edith, nave window
Coates by Stow, St Edith, nave window
Coates by Stow, St Edith, nave window

Window in the north wall of the nave at St Edith's.

June 2013

Coates By Stow, St Edith church
Coates by Stow, St Edith, windows
Coates by Stow, St Edith, windows
Coates by Stow, St Edith, windows

A tiny pair of windows provide illumination to the rood loft.

June 2013

Coates By Stow, St Edith church, window
Coleby, All Saints, Tower, West Door & Window
Coleby, All Saints, Tower, West Door & Window
Coleby, All Saints, Tower, West Door & Window

C15 west door and window inserted into the Saxon tower.

DB 26 July 2022

Coleby, Kesteven, Church, All Saints, Image
Coleby, All Saints, Tower, Window
Coleby, All Saints, Tower, Window
Coleby, All Saints, Tower, Window

Keyhole shaped Saxon window opening on the south side of the tower.

DB 26 July 2022

Coleby, Kesteven, Church, All Saints, Image, window
Coningsby, St Michael
Coningsby, St Michael
Coningsby, St Michael

The windows in the south aisle are from the Perpendicular period.

August 2013

Coningsby, St Michael church
Croft, All Saints, East Window
Croft, All Saints, East Window
Croft, All Saints, East Window

The east window of All Saints, in Perpendicular style.

May 2016

Croft, All Saints church, window
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, West Door & Window
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, West Door & Window
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, West Door & Window

"Western door in moulded pointed surround, with crocketed ogee canopy with fleurons. Above a 5 light C15 window, with brattishing."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, door window
East Barkwith, St Mary
East Barkwith, St Mary
East Barkwith, St Mary

This window in the south aisle is the work of Robert Jewell Withers (1824-94).

July 2012

East Barkwith, St Mary church, window, Robert Jewell Withers
East Halton, St Peter, windows
East Halton, St Peter, windows
East Halton, St Peter, windows

The windows in the south aisle - as seen here on the left - of St Peter's are from the Decorated period.

By contrast the chancel is Early English and has this unusual window with plate tracery (right).

July 2014

East Halton, St Peter church, windows, plate tracery
East Kirkby, Mission Church
East Kirkby, Mission Church
East Kirkby, Mission Church

The typical pointed windows of the former church were replaced on north and south sides of the building when it was converted into a village hall.

One of the former windows has been retained over the entrance at the west end of the building.

May 2018

East Kirkby,
Gautby, All Saints, window
Gautby, All Saints, window
Gautby, All Saints, window

All Saints' church has a Venetian window in the south wall of the chancel.

August 2014

Gautby, All Saints church, Venetian window
Goulceby, All Saints, Windows
Goulceby, All Saints, Windows
Goulceby, All Saints, Windows

Windows on the south side of the nave were taken from the old church across the road when All Saints was built in 1908.

These 14th century windows are fine examples of Perpendicular plate tracery.

July 2012

Goulceby, All Saints church, plate tracery, windows
Grainsby, St Nicholas
Grainsby, St Nicholas
Grainsby, St Nicholas

View of the church from the south. 

On the south wall of the tower the Early English vesica-shaped window with mullion is an unusual feature.

So too are the square-headed wooden-framed windows in the south wall of the nave.

Jean Howard, February 2024  

Grainsby, St Nicholas
Grainsby, St Nicholas
Grainsby, St Nicholas
Grainsby, St Nicholas

The two windows in the south wall of the nave have timber frames and leaded lights.

They date from a restoration in 1834.

Jean Howard, February 2024  

Grainsby, St Nicholas, windows
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Tower, Window
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Tower, Window
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Tower, Window

Small window on the south side of the C11 tower.

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, window
Hannah, St Andrew, window
Hannah, St Andrew, window
Hannah, St Andrew, window

A round arched window with prominent keystone and imposts.

September 2018

Hannah, St Andrew, window
Heapham, All Saints, Window
Heapham, All Saints, Window
Heapham, All Saints, Window

This key-shaped window is at high level on the western face of the tower.

This is a design typical of the Anglo-Saxon period and found in other churches in north-west Lincolnshire.

June 2020

Heapham, All Saints, anglo-Saxon window
Heckington, St Andrew, east window
Heckington, St Andrew, east window
Heckington, St Andrew, east window

The very fine seven-light east window with flowing tracery of the Decorated period.

June 2015

Heckington, St Andrew church
Hough on the Hill, All Saints
Hough on the Hill, All Saints
Hough on the Hill, All Saints

Window opening in Anglo Saxon stair turret.

Aug 2012

Hough on the Hill, All Saints
Hougham, All Saints, window
Hougham, All Saints, window
Hougham, All Saints, window

Window in Perpendicular style (1350-1530).

March 2016

Hougham, All Saints, window
Huttoft, St Margaret, Tower, Window
Huttoft, St Margaret, Tower, Window
Huttoft, St Margaret, Tower, Window

"To the third stage on all sides are tall C13 pointed 2 light windows with moulded surrounds, dogtooth moulding to the wide central mullion, pointed heads to the lights and vesica"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, window
Irby In The Marsh, All Saints, window
Irby In The Marsh, All Saints, window
Irby In The Marsh, All Saints, window

The windows of Georgian style in the south wall of the nave date from the 1770 restoration.

July 2016

Irby In The Marsh, All Saints church, window
Keddington, St Margaret, Window
Keddington, St Margaret, Window
Keddington, St Margaret, Window

At high level on the south wall of the nave is a small early twelfth-century round-headed light with deeply moulded head and chamfered surround.

April 2019

Keddington, St Margaret, window
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Tower, West Window
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Tower, West Window
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Tower, West Window

"Gothic style window placed in the blocking of the west door"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

An 1896 photograph displayed in the church shows the west door still in place and a large crack in the tower above.

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Kelby, St Andrew, Clerestory
Kelby, St Andrew, Clerestory
Kelby, St Andrew, Clerestory

The windows of the clerestory - seen here from the south - are in pairs and in Perpendicular style.

April 2018

Kelby, St Andrew church, clerestory
Kelby, St Andrew, Window
Kelby, St Andrew, Window
Kelby, St Andrew, Window

Distorted window in Decorated style on the north wall of the church.

April 2018

Kelby, St Andrew church, window
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, window
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, window
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, window

Window in Early English style by W A Nicholson.

June 2014

Kirmond Le Mire, St Martin, window
Langrick, St Margaret
Langrick, St Margaret
Langrick, St Margaret

Pevsner states that 'the windows are pointed in the late Georgian way but with wooden Perpendicular tracery'.

The simple dentilated frieze is carried along north and south faces of nave, chancel and porch.

July 2017

Langrick, St Margaret
Langworth, St Hugh, window
Langworth, St Hugh, window
Langworth, St Hugh, window

Detail of the stone surround of the west window.

July 2015

Langworth, St Hugh church, window
Lincoln, St Faith, window
Lincoln, St Faith, window
Lincoln, St Faith, window

Window in the south wall of the nave with tracery in typical Perpendicular style. A pink sandstone has been used for the tracery.

December 2017

Churches, St Faith
Linwood, St Cornelius, window
Linwood, St Cornelius, window
Linwood, St Cornelius, window

A Perpendicular window in the north aisle.

September 2016

Linwood, St Cornelius, Windows
Lusby, St Peter, Chancel, Window
Lusby, St Peter, Chancel, Window
Lusby, St Peter, Chancel, Window

"Cll keyhole window with ashlar head and reveals, around the head a curled grooved motif with cross"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 September 2022

Lusby, Saint Peter Church, image, window
Lutton, St Nicholas, Window
Lutton, St Nicholas, Window
Lutton, St Nicholas, Window

'The buttressed south wall has two C19 arched 3 light windows with cusped panel tracery, hood mould and label stops.'

July 2019

Lutton, St Nicholas, window
Midville, St Peter, window
Midville, St Peter, window
Midville, St Peter, window

The church has six identical windows in the nave. They are pointed with Victorian tracery.

Because of the soft ground and uncertainty of the foundations, inverted arches have been built into the walls beneath the windows.

November 2018


Midville, St Peter, inverted arches, window
New Bolingbroke, St Peter, North Window
New Bolingbroke, St Peter, North Window
New Bolingbroke, St Peter, North Window

A section akin to a north transept is lit by a three light window in which the central blind element contains an angel figure.

This part of the building originally housed a gallery within for children thereby making the capacity of the building 275 adults and 75 children.

Jean Howard, April 2023

New Bolingbroke, Saint Peter Church, image
Nocton, All Saints, Vestry, Windows
Nocton, All Saints, Vestry, Windows
Nocton, All Saints, Vestry, Windows

A pair of windows in the vestry with plate tracery in Early English style.

March 2016

Nocton, windows All Saints
Normanton, St Nicholas, Tower, West Window
Normanton, St Nicholas, Tower, West Window
Normanton, St Nicholas, Tower, West Window

"The 3 light west window is C19 but incorporates some C14 ball flower ornament. Set in the centre of the tracery is a C19 carved head. The hood mould and decorated label stops are C14"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146921?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 March 2024

Normanton, Saint Nicholas Church
North Carlton, St Luke, Nave, Window
North Carlton, St Luke, Nave, Window
North Carlton, St Luke, Nave, Window

A round-headed window, with rounded hood mould, scrolled end-stops and keystone, on the south side of the nave, in typical Georgian style.

March 2019

North Carlton, St Luke, window
North Killingholme, St Denis, window
North Killingholme, St Denis, window
North Killingholme, St Denis, window
North Killingholme, St Denis church, window
Ranby, St German, East Window
Ranby, St German, East Window
Ranby, St German, East Window

The unusual and attractive tracery (Decorated style) of the east window includes two sprigs of vine leaves.

Jean Howard, 2 January 2022

Ranby Saint German Church Window
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Window
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Window
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Window

This blocked window in Perpendicular style is at the west end of the south wall of the chancel.

Presumably it was retained in position by Withers at the time of the 1862 restoration.

July 2015

Rand, St Oswald, window
Rigsby, St James, Nave, Rose Window
Rigsby, St James, Nave, Rose Window
Rigsby, St James, Nave, Rose Window

The rose window in the west wall of the church.

September 2015

Rigsby, St James church, rose window
Saltfleetby All Saints, window
Saltfleetby All Saints, window
Saltfleetby All Saints, window

A late fifteenth-century window on the north side of the nave.

June 2008

Saltfleetby All Saints, church, window
Saxby, St Helen
Saxby, St Helen
Saxby, St Helen

Classical details, including this round window overlooking the portico at the south-west corner of the building.

January 2014

Saxby, St Helen
Sibsey, St Margaret, Tower
Sibsey, St Margaret, Tower
Sibsey, St Margaret, Tower

Window west side of tower. 

"Each side of the third stage has a single large C13 round arched 2 light window with colonnettes with shaft rings and moulded capitals alternating with heavy nail head moulding to jambs and arches, plate tracery with single quatrefoil.

Billet hood mould"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063533 

DB 3 August 2019

Sibsey, Saint Margaret, Church
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Chancel, East Window
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Chancel, East Window
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Chancel, East Window

The east window in Perpendicular style dates from 1878 when C H Fowler rebuilt the chancel.

April 2016

Silk Willoughby, St Denis church, east window, C H Fowler
Skidbrooke, St Botolph, Window
Skidbrooke, St Botolph, Window
Skidbrooke, St Botolph, Window

Rectangular fourteenth-century window in the south wall of the chancel.

June 2008

Skidbrooke, St Botolph, window
Sotby, St Peter, Window
Sotby, St Peter, Window
Sotby, St Peter, Window

Window in the south wall of the nave built in the eighteenth century. Greenstone with brick are the building materials.

June 2018

Sotby, St Peter, window
South Thoresby, St Andrew, window
South Thoresby, St Andrew, window
South Thoresby, St Andrew, window

A round-headed window in the south wall of the nave.

September 2015

South Thoresby, St Andrew church, window
Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas
Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas
Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas

The large window on the west front, built by G G Scott in 1865-74, is in Perpendicular style.

The window to the south aisle (to the right) is Decorated with reticulated tracery; the window in the north aisle is Perpendicular.

August 2016

Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas
Strubby, St Oswald, Window
Strubby, St Oswald, Window
Strubby, St Oswald, Window

Although the nave and south aisle were restored in 1857 under Maughan & Fowler, this window at the east end of the south aisle is c1300 with a cinquefoiled circle in the head of the tracery.

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, Church, window, Maughan Fowler
Swaby, St Nicholas, Window
Swaby, St Nicholas, Window
Swaby, St Nicholas, Window

The tracery of this nave window is wood, not stone.

Jean Howard, 17 March 2021

Swaby, Saint Nicholas church, window
Tealby, All Saints, Tower, West Door
Tealby, All Saints, Tower, West Door
Tealby, All Saints, Tower, West Door

"Small early C12 west doorway with large plain chamfered impost blocks.

C19 lintel inserted and semi-circular head.

Above, a round headed window of c1175 with small head inside apex with weathered, drooping leaves on either side and hoodmould"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063475 

DB 22 December 2019

Tealby, All Saints, church, door
Thorpe St Peter, church window
Thorpe St Peter, church window
Thorpe St Peter, church window

This window in Perpendicular style dates from the 1866-67 restoration by Fowler.

July 2016

Thorpe St Peter, church, window
Toynton All Saints, Church, Window
Toynton All Saints, Church, Window
Toynton All Saints, Church, Window

Small window from the nineteenth-century restoration.

July 2014

Toynton All Saints, church
Utterby, St Andrew, Chancel, Window
Utterby, St Andrew, Chancel, Window
Utterby, St Andrew, Chancel, Window

The chancel has 15th century windows, including this window in the south wall of the chancel.The three-light east window is also Perpendicular in style.

April 2015

Utterby, St Andrew church, window
Walesby, St Mary, Window
Walesby, St Mary, Window
Walesby, St Mary, Window

A medieval window of the Perpendicular (15th century) period only visible from the interior. The exterior is in the form of a millioned window dating from Temple Moor's work of 1914.

May 2018

Walesby, St Mary, window
West Keal, St Helen
West Keal, St Helen
West Keal, St Helen

Window in the south aisle at St Helen's church.

July 2014

West Keal, St Helen church, window
West Rasen, All Saints, Nave, Clerestory
West Rasen, All Saints, Nave, Clerestory
West Rasen, All Saints, Nave, Clerestory

The clerestory windows on the south side of the nave are flanked by a frieze of shields said to have come from a tomb-chest.

July 2013

West Rasen, All Saints church
Westborough, All Saints, Chancel
Westborough, All Saints, Chancel
Westborough, All Saints, Chancel

Window in the south wall of the chancel.

August 2011

Westborough, All Saints church, window
Wigtoft, St Peter & St Paul, west window
Wigtoft, St Peter & St Paul, west window
Wigtoft, St Peter & St Paul, west window

This late Norman window is in the west wall of the tower. Pevsner was unsure whether it was in situ.

Mark Acton, 2014

Wigtoft, St Peter & St Paul church, west window
Willoughby, St Helen, window
Willoughby, St Helen, window
Willoughby, St Helen, window

Chancel window with tracery of the Early Perpendicular style, possibly late-14th century.

August 2013

Willoughby, St Helen church, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window

Window in Perpendicular style at the west end of the south aisle.

August 2013

Winthorpe, St Mary, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window

Window in Perpendicular style in the south wall of the chancel.

August 2013

Winthorpe, St Mary church, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window
Winthorpe, St Mary, window

Window in Perpendicular style in the south wall of the south aisle.

August 2013

Winthorpe, St Mary church, window
Wyberton, St Leodegar, Window
Wyberton, St Leodegar, Window
Wyberton, St Leodegar, Window

Nave window, in typical Perpendicular style of the fifteenth century.

August 2018

Wyberton, St Leodegar, window
Yarburgh, St John the Baptist, window
Yarburgh, St John the Baptist, window
Yarburgh, St John the Baptist, window

The 3-light east window, in Perpendicular style.

According to Pevsner the church was rebuilt after a fire of 1405.

June 2015

Yarburgh, St John Baptist church, window