Church Of St Botolph

The Church of St Botolph is a Grade II* listed building located on the north side of Main Street in Sibson. The church has origins partly from the late 13th to early 14th century, but most of the structure dates from 1726, with restoration carried out in 1872. It features a combination of coursed and squared limestone, as well as brick with stone dressings, topped by a plain tiled roof.

The west tower, built entirely in 1726, consists of three stages of ashlar with a moulded cornice and a parapet adorned with urn finials at the corners. The west door is framed by a rusticated architrave, and there is a round-arched Y-traceried window in the second stage. An oculus is present in the third stage above the door, with additional oculi in the lower stages to the north and south.

The nave is constructed of brick with stone dressings, featuring three round-headed windows that were fitted with geometric tracery in 1872. The chancel fabric is medieval, showcasing windows with notable tracery from around 1300, including one 15th-century window with 31 lights on the south side and a small priest's door.

Inside, the wide nave boasts a queen post roof with collar and bracing. The chancel arch is double chamfered, supported by semi-octagonal responds. A tripartite chancel screen from 1910 features ogee tracery in a simple, stripped-down style. In the chancel, there is a blocked low-side window to the south and sedilia with cylindrical shafts and ring moulding.

The church fittings include pews made from 18th-century box pews in 1898, and stained glass in the southeast and northeast windows depicts the Light of the World, the Good Shepherd, and Saints Paul and Barnabas in a medieval style. Additionally, the chancel houses a stone recumbent effigy of a man holding his heart beneath a canopy, along with a brass memorial from 1532 to John Moore, a priest, featuring large outstretched hands and double curved scrolls of text leading up to a small Christ figure seated on a rainbow.