Nominal: 949 Hz Weight: 644 lbs Diameter: 32" Bell 1 of 3
Founded by Thomas II Mears 1841
Dove Bell ID: 4270 Tower ID: 12840 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Marnham: St Wilfrid
Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
CCT Church, 638125
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Grid reference: SK 806 693
The exterior of Marnham church, apart from the nineteenth-century south porch and the virtually nineteenth century chancel, presents an almost entirely Perpendicular appearance.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Churches Conservation Trust Open to visitors daily
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
West tower, nave with aisles and clerestory and south porch; chancel with north chapel continuing the line of the north nave aisle.
Footprint of Church buildings: 338 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
The arcades are thirteenth-century and the clerestory and other windows are Perpendicular. The chancel was rebuilt in the nineteenth century (probably about 1870).
Exterior Description
The exterior of Marnham church, apart from the nineteenth-century south porch and the virtually nineteenth century chancel, presents an almost entirely Perpendicular appearance. The nave has four clerestory windows in the north and south walls, all of which consist of three lights under square heads without labels. But while three pairs have round-headed lights of late Perpendicular type, the pair nearest the tower, also each of three lights, have pointed quatrefoils above ogee-headed lights typical of an earlier date. Although richer, these two windows are also smaller than the rest. The nave has an embattled and moulded parapet above a moulded stringcourse interrupted by five large gargoyles on both north and south walls.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
c.1870
The east window contains glass of c.1870 depicting The Ascension flanked by The Crucifixion and The Resurrection, perhaps by Wailes.
Stained Glass
One window in the north wall of the chapel contains a figure of St. James, fifteenth-century but partly assembled from fragments of other figures.
Stained Glass
The east window of the south aisle has quarries of old greenish glass.
Interior
Interior Description
The arcades of the nave each have double-chamfered arches; the north arcade has low cylindrical pillars with circular moulded capitals, and the arches are outlined by chamfered hoods. The responds consist of a keeled semi-shaft set against a square respond with a moulded capital following the same outline. The south arcade, however, while having similar arches, has taller pillars with a main shaft which is an elongated octagon in plan and four detached shafts placed against the principal faces. The responds are square in plan with canted corners and three detached shafts. The capitals are similar to those of the north arcade, but the capitals of the two free standing pillars have carvings of two different designs (one stiff-leaf, one with crockets) which suggest that they may have been carved by Lincoln masons. The hood which outlines the arches has bunches of stiff-leaf above each pier save for above the eastern free-standing pillar, where there is simply (and oddly) an egg-shaped stone.
The clerestory is quite plain and there is a strange carved stone set in the north-west angle of the nave, an almost life-size head with watchful eyes. The tower arch has two chamfered orders, the inner set on semi-octagonaly corbels and the outer becoming a chamfer on the responds. The roofs of the nave and aisles seem to be entirely nineteenth century with tie-beams and moulded purlins. There is a small piscina in the south aisle with a cinquefoiled ogee head and a drain. Near the south doorway is a stoup with a bowl shaped into an irregular octagon inside and rounded outside, set under a two-centred moulded arch. The floors are paved with red and black quarry tiles and the pews stand on timber platforms.
The chancel arch has keeled responds (with marks where a screen once abutted) and a double-chamfered arch all similar to the details of the north arcade, and the two-bay arcade to the north chapel belongs to this building campaign also. On the other hand the free-standing pier of this arcade is of the south aisle type, but slightly more refined still. It has an octagonal central shaft with flat principal faces and concave intermediate faces and shafts set outside the principal faces. The excellent crocket capital still has traces of mediaeval colour. The shafts each have their own bases and then there is a serpentine moulding surrounding all of them, and the whole composition stands on an octagonal plinth. The responds have a single shaft although both have capitals with a lobe and a rebate on the south side suggesting that there ought to be further shafts at this point. That on the east has been renewed, but the shaft was not replaced. The chapel runs out of the north aisle without an intervening arch. There are two crudely shaped corbels set in the north wall.
The chacel itself appears to be entirely nineteenth-century. Its floor is one step above that of the nave and is for the most part paved with ledgers. There is one step at the communion rails but no footpace. There are few architectural details apart from the two-bay arcade to the north chapel which has already been described, and the roof, which is a heavy Perpendicular design of c.1870, of four bays with richly moulded tie-beams and tracery above; the wall plate are pierced with tracery designs and the stone corbels are also lavishly carved. In the south wall a simple recess with a depressed arch below the window serves as sedilia.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
17th Century
The communion table is seventeenth-century, of oak with turned baluster legs.
Pulpit
c.1870
The pulpit is of c.1870, large, of stone, hexagonal in plan with blind tracery in the faces and small buttresses up the angles, on a flaring base, in Perpendicular style.
Lectern
The lectern is really a reading pew, square in plan, of oak with open traceried panels and a desk along the north and west sides.
Font (object)
The font is a plain low octagonal design, much re-cut, with a good nineteenth-century oak cover of spire-like form with crockets up the edges.
Rail
c.1870
The communion rails are of oak, c.1870, with plain moulded uprights and heavily moulded capping, all part of the rebuilding of the chancel.
Bells
Weight: 467 lbs Diameter: 27.5" Bell 2 of 3
Founded by Thomas II Mears 1841
Dove Bell ID: 29748 Tower ID: 12840 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1042 Hz Diameter: 31.13" Bell 3 of 3
Founded by Seliok (generic)
Dove Bell ID: 29749 Tower ID: 12840 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SK 806 693
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
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