Church Of St Botolph

Church of St Botolph

Church dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The west tower was built in 1721 by Henry Grix. The nave and north aisle were constructed in 1861 by Henry Goddard. The chancel was rebuilt in 1878, and the south aisle and south chapel were added in 1884 by William Watkins. The building is constructed in dressed stone and ashlar with slate roofs, featuring coped gables and chamfered plinths throughout. Windows are pointed arched with hoodmoulds.

The plan comprises a west tower, nave with aisles, chancel, vestry, and south chapel. The west tower is three stages high and unbuttressed, with string courses and a crenellated parapet topped by four pinnacles. It has a pyramidal roof with finial. The tower's west face features a round headed doorway with keystone, above which is a blocked window, and further up, a round window with keystone and clock face. The north and south sides of the tower each have a small quatrefoil. The bell stage has round headed louvred openings on each side.

The nave's west end has single lancets flanking the tower, with single buttresses beyond. The aisles span four bays with buttresses; their west ends have Decorated style two-light pointed arched windows, while the north and south sides have four flat headed four-light Perpendicular style windows. The chancel's east end displays a Decorated style three-light pointed arched window, with an Early English two-light pointed arched window on the south side.

The vestry extends two bays with buttresses, a flat headed door, and mullioned casement. An octagonal stack rises to the east, with a two-light pointed arched window nearby. The south chapel has a two-light pointed arched window with Geometrical tracery to the east and a similar truncated window to the south. Its west gable contains a single round window topped by a gabled bellcote. Below the tower is a porch with a double chamfered round headed doorway.

Internally, the nave features four-bay arcades with rendered rectangular piers without capitals and moulded arches, beneath an arch braced principal rafter roof. The north-west window contains late 19th-century stained glass. The aisles have four-centred arches at the east end; the north aisle features a screen and organ pipes, while the south aisle has a stained glass window of 1891. Both aisles have lean-to roofs.

The chancel is spanned by a moulded double chamfered arch with hoodmould and round responds, beneath a scissor braced roof. It retains a wooden rood. A billeted sill band runs along the interior. The north side has an organ opening and doorway. The panelled east end displays a traceried reredos and stained glass window. The south side contains a 19th-century piscina with shafts, a seat recess with dogtooth hoodmould, and a four-centred arch to the chapel with traceried stone screen and 19th-century stained glass window.

The south chapel has a 19th-century stained glass window. Its south side features a reset conical corbel and shaft, and a credence with round shafts. An iron screen spans the western arch. The chapel has a principal rafter roof.

Fittings include an octagonal stone pulpit dated 1903 by William Watkins, a similar font, a brass lectern, and plain benches, all from the 19th century. The chancel and south chapel windows are by Canon H.F. Sutton. Memorials comprise small tablets and a brass from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The church was rebuilt in 1721 on the site of a medieval church destroyed in the 1640s.