Church Of St Martin

LYNDON SK 90 SW CHURCH ROAD (South Side)

6/151 Church of St. Martin

14.6.54

GV II*

Church. C13-14, much restored 1866. Coursed rubble stone with quoins and stone dressings and Collyweston slate and leaded roofs. Stone coped gables and parapet to nave. W tower, nave aisles, chancel, N chancel organ chamber, and S porch. C14/C15 tower of 3 stages. Plinth, W window with C19 stained glass, 4 2-light bell openings with transom and hood moulds, and battlements. Inside, a C13 coffin slab in floor of tower and double chamfered nave arch, the inner arch on corbels. Hood mould and label stops. Both nave arcades of 2 bays, C13/early C14, octagonal piers, double chamfered arches, with hood moulds and single central head stop either side. Clerestory with 3 C19 windows either side and C19 roof. N aisle has 3 C19 windows, opening to organ chamber and remains of stair to rood loft. Organ chamber probably C19. Chancel mainly C19 with coloured tile floor, E window and S door. S aisle has C13 door with hood mould and head stops, and 2 C19 windows. Upper part of S porch C19, lower probably earlier. C12 font, round becoming square at top, on short supports, 3 with attached shafts. Reredos (with sgraffito work) and pulpit of alabaster of 1856. On exterior C18 wall monument on E wall of porch, and another on S wall of chancel to John Freeman, died 1796, a former rector.

Listing NGR: SK9073304421