This church shares the same dedication as the more famous Boston Stump. It stands
with its tall 13th-century tower facing towards the village on a slightly
raised churchyard. The tower has simple pointed lights with "Y" tracery
to the lower stages, but Perpendicular tracery to the top belfry stage. The
belfry lights have amusing faces looking down from the centre of their hood
moulds.
The nave has aisles to both sides with English slate roofs. The south aisle was
rebuilt in 1867 by Kirk and Parry of Sleaford, but the north aisle is
14th-century and retains its original three light windows with wave moulded
surrounds and triangular heads. Beside the chancel, adjacent to the south
aisle, is a south chapel dating from the 13th-century. It has two beautiful
light windows with geometic tracery. They appear to be reset.
The white washed interior is quite colourful with a Minton tiled floor and
stained glass by Ward and Hughes of 1866. The reredos behind the altar, which
partly obscures the window is however rather gaudy; both it and the altar are
gilded, and the centre panel depicts Christ in Majesty with the flanking panels
of the four Evangelists.
The nave arcades and tower arch are all 13th-century with nice human head stops,
and at the east end of the south arcade is a fine human head with a smile and
wavy hair! The south chapel - a lovely space - has a pointed headed piscina to
the south and a fine alabaster wall plaque to Mary Savile, died 1637.
The chancel has also has a piscina, a double one with gabled top with dog
toothed decoration and three small human heads.
Fittings are mostly Victorian, apart from the churchwardens chest with two
locks and two padlocks, and the plain octagonal font onto which an early
graffito artist has inserted his name "Thomas".
The churchyard is a pleasant sloping site surrounded by tall mature trees, and
contains some good 18th-century stones, a fine tomb chest and some 19th-century
inscribed slate gravestones.
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