St Mary and St Peter’s Church, Harlaxton

St Mary and St Peter's parish register dates from 1558 and includes that of Wyville with Hungerton up to 1813. According to English Heritage, between 1174 and 1185 land at Harlaxton to build a church was provided by William the Conqueror’s granddaughter Matilda. By 1535 Harlaxton held one of the nine chantries within the deanery of Grantham. The present church structure dates, in parts, from the late 12th century, with later additions and alterations in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. The church spire was restored in 1885, and the interior in 1856-58 at which time the south porch was rebuilt. The interior was again restored in 1890-91 by John Oldrid Scott at a cost of £1,200 Pevsner…

The church is rendered throughout, with mid-19th-century plain wooden roofs supported by simple arch-braces, finished at their spring by carved stone corbel angels. The nave contains bays with double chamfered pointed arch arcades. The north late 12th-century arcade Transitional (Cox); Early English (Pevsner) of four bays is supported by round late Norman piers with simple frustum-style capitals of four facets. The two west bays are separated by a wall, previously the west wall of the nave. The capital of the east pier has an additional line of floriate detailing, reminiscent of crocketing. The south Early English Decorated style early 13th-century arcade of three bays sits on octagonal…