Church Micro 5293...Newton - St Botolph Traditional Cache
Church Micro 5293...Newton - St Botolph
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Parish church. C13, C14, C15, restored 1867. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar, slate and lead roofs having raised stone coped gables and crested ridges. West tower, nave, aisles, south porch, chancel and south chapel, vestry. Tall 4 stage early C13 west tower with chamfered plinth and string courses, set back buttresses and plain parapet with angle pinnacles. In the belfry are paired C15 trefoil headed lights with Perpendicular tracery to the heads and pointed chamfered surrounds. To the west is a 2 light window with crude intersecting tracery and pointed head. In the third stage are single Y-traceried louvered lights with pointed heads. In the west wall of the south aisle is a C14 2 light reticulated window with cusped ogee tracery and a quatrefoil. The C14 north aisle has a continuously moulded and pointed doorway and 2 three light reticulated windows with cusped ogees, quatrefoils and triangular headed wave moulded surrounds. The C19 vestry has a pointed doorway and a 3 light window with mullions and cusped 4 centred arched heads to the lights. In the east wall is a C15 2 light window with Perpendicular tracery. The C13 chancel east window has 4 tall lights with slender intersecting tracery to the pointed head. The C13 south chapel has a plain parapet and a 2 light reticulated window to the east with cusped ogee arches, trefoils and a triangular headed surround, and to the south are 2 repositioned C13 2 light windows with geometric tracery comprising a trilobe, trefoils and a quatrefoil, all in pointed and chamfered surrounds. The 1867 south aisle has 2 two light windows with geometric tracery and pointed chamfered surrounds. The contemporary gabled south porch has a pointed and wave moulded outer arch with engaged shafted reveals. The inner door has C13 moulded and filleted reveals and C19 capitals to the moulded head.Interior: 3 bay C13 nave arcades with octagonal shafts, moulded and splayed capitals and double chamfered arches. “If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first at churchmicro@gmail.com so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication. There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page found via the Bookmark list”
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