Church Of St Botolph

The Church of St. Botolph is a church dating from the late 13th and early 14th centuries, with a 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of regular coursed limestone and ironstone with ashlar dressings, and originally had Collyweston slate roofing, now partly replaced with 20th-century plain tile and lead. The church comprises an aisled nave, a chancel, a west tower, and a south porch.

The south elevation of the chancel has three windows, two of which are late 13th century, two-light windows with Y-tracery, trefoils, and cusping. A lancet window to the far left has carved label stops and was likely inserted into a larger window opening during the 19th century. A south door to the right also features carved label stops. The chancel has a steeply gabled roof with plain 19th-century corbelling, ashlar gable parapets and finials, with a stepped gable abutting the nave. The late 13th century east window is a three-light window with intersecting tracery and cusping. The north side of the chancel mirrors the south, with a low-side lancet window to the right.

The south aisle has four windows, with two- and three-light designs featuring Y, reticulated, Y, and intersecting tracery, and quatrefoils with cusping. It is also characterized by a steeply gabled roof with 19th-century corbelling, ashlar gable parapets and finials. The 14th-century five-light east window features Panel tracery, and the west window is a three-light window with a star set within a circle. A south porch, dated 1741 on a sundial, has a plain outer arch and ashlar gable parapets. The inner door opening is a roll-moulded arch with a single order of shafts.

The north aisle has a three-window range of three-light squared-head windows, with 19th-century replacement tracery. A lean-to roof with ashlar gable parapets tops the aisle. A 20th century lean-to boiler house is situated in the bay to the right of centre. The nave clerestory exhibits a five-window range of 16th or 17th century two-light stone mullion windows, located on the north elevation only. It has a shallow gabled roof with ashlar parapets.

The west tower, dating back to around 1300, has three stages, with subdivision of the lower stage. It incorporates 3-stage angle buttresses to the lower two stages, a three-light west window formed of three lancets with a small square-head door opening below, and an opening formed into a spherical triangle on the west face of the second stage. Pairs of two-light bell-chamber openings with transoms and cusping are featured on each face of the upper stage. The tower is topped with a castellated parapet, with gargoyles at the corners and a coat of arms on the centre of the south parapet.

Inside, the five-bay nave arcade has double chamfered arches with octagonal piers. A double chamfered and bracketed chancel arch and a double chamfered tower arch, with chamfered responds, are also present. The south aisle is noticeably wider than the north aisle. Some original timbers are visible in the north aisle and nave roofs, with 19th-century roof structures in the chancel. A tomb recess with cusping is visible on the north wall, and a trefoil head piscina is located in the south aisle. A monument with an inscribed tablet dedicated to Frances Parker, who died in 1683, is found in the south porch. Various early and mid-19th century tablets are also present. Later 19th and early 20th century stained glass is in the chancel windows and west tower window; the north and south chancel windows may be by Kenpe. The font is a single gadrooned baluster dated that.