Church Of St Botolph

The Church of St Botolph is a Grade II* parish church located in Limpenhoe, with a medieval core that was rebuilt in 1881 by A.S. Hewitt. The building is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features a plaintile roof. It includes a west tower, north porch, nave, north vestry, and chancel. The two-stage tower contains 15th-century brick and rises to the nave roof level, with 19th-century work above. It has diagonal buttresses, a flushwork base course, and a polygonal north staircase tower. The west window is a 19th-century three-light design, and there are two-light belfry windows, along with a battlemented parapet. The 19th-century gabled timber frame porch features Perpendicular tracery and has a flint and stone base. The nave consists of three bays with set back buttresses and has re-set 14th and 15th-century windows on the north and south sides. There is a blocked Norman south doorway with attached shafts, decorated cushion capitals, and a double reveal arch featuring chevron and scallop patterns. The chancel has three bays, with a priest's door and two-light windows to the north, two-light windows to the south, and a four-light window to the east, all designed in the Decorated style. The chancel also has angle buttresses and parapet gables topped with cross finials. The interior is mainly from the 19th century, featuring a restored tower arch with 15th-century attached shafts and 19th-century capitals and arch. The church also houses a 13th-century octagonal font made of Purbeck marble, which has a blind arcade of pointed arches and stands on a base with a central column and eight colonnettes.