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Grasby Church 1827
The Steeple has certainly been much reduced in height. There is a Buttress of Stone of 3 Copes at the North West & another at the South West Angle. There is a heavy semi-circular Arch Doorway Entrance into the West End of the Steeple with part of a heavy Stone Cope over it, the Door has a square Head 6 feet high & 2 F 8 wide -- in the Top part of the West Face is a oblong Window 2 F high & 1 F wide. On the South Side in the Top Chamber of the Steeple is a square head Window with a Stone Mullion in the centre forms 2 Divisions high wide. There is a double buttress with 3 Copes on the North Side where the Steeple joins the Nave. The original height of the Nave was much greater than the Steeple at present.
The Church has been much larger, there having been a North Aisle at least, as the pointed Arches with the Pillar Heads on which they rested are remaining: there are 3 of them 11 F, span 13 F. High, each. In the Nave on the North Side is an old Window with a square Head, two Stone Mullions from 3 Divisions 6 F. High 3 F 8 wide. Also a pointed Arch Window with a Stone Cope over it, two Stone Mullion, form 3 narrow Divisions, the middle one much the highest, with Trefoil Heads. The Window is 7 F 6 wide, there is also a smaller Window within a pointed Arch Head 3 F high & 3 F wide at the Bottom. This I think has been an old Entrance, the lower part is brick'd up. Each of these 3 Windows is in one of the built up Arches of the old Nave. On the South Side the Nave is a modern pointed Arch Window, put in I presume, when the South Aisle was taken down, two Stone Mullions form 3 Lancet Divisions with 3 small Lozenges 2 & 1 at the top, 8 Ft high, 3 F 8 wide. The Porch on the South Side has a modern circular Arch Head Door Way 8 F high 4 F 6 wide into the Porch to protect it from Cattle, there are a pair of Light folding Gates to fill up the whole space. On the South Side the Chancel a semicircular Arch Doorway 5 F 6 high, 2 F 9 wide on one Side of it an oblong Window, square Head 3 F 6 high, 1 F wide, on the other Side the Door another oblong Window with a square head 4 F 3 high, 2 F wide. At the East End of the Chancel a pointed Arch Window with a Stone Cope resting upon Corbels of Gothic Heads, a very heavy Stone Mullion in the Centre forms 2 Divisions with Trefoil Heads and a Lozenge in the Angle above 8F high & 3 F wide. The whole Building is 80 Feet long outside. The Nave 40 F 6 - Chancel 24 F 6 - Steeple 15 F long without Buttresses which are 3 F projection & 2F 3 thick at the Base. The Steeple is about 15 F North to South. The Nave wide outside 21 Feet, The Chancel is also the same. Height of the Chancel Wall from the Ground to the Wall Plate is 9 F. The Porch is in projection 9F 6. In Front 11 Feet. High in Front 13 F the Gable. From the Ground to the Wall Plate 6 F.
It like many other old Churches is finely daubed on the Outside with Whitewash to hide Defects: it is a poor old Church, at which I am surprized being a largish Village
The View on the South and West Sides are most beautiful including Lincoln Cathedral the Martket Towns of Castor, Rasen, Kirton & Brigg, as well as over the low Country situated between the two ranges of Hills, those of the North Wolds & that upon which the Roman Road from Lincoln to the Humber as well as the River Ancholme from its Source to Brigg, the clothed Hills at and above Redbourne and at Scawby form a most delightful Summer View, in Winter there is too much water.
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