Benchmark - St Bartholomew - Sproxton, Leicestershire - U.K. and Ireland Trigpoints on Waymarking.com

Cut benchmark on the south west corner of St Bartholomew's church tower, Sproxton.

"Parish church. C13 west tower, the rest mostly late C14. The following of 1882-83 by H. Woodyer: belfry, south porch, south aisle, south chancel including transept and chapel and the chancel arch. Ironstone with limestone dressings. Unbuttressed 3-stage tower. Lancet west window and a lancet to south. South lancet to ringing chamber. Limestone belfry stage with 2-light windows, crenellated parapet and crocketed pinnacles. 3-light south aisle Perpendicular windows under 4-centered arches. Gabled south porch. North nave wall with a blocked doorway, just pointed, and a 2-light cusped window under a swore head. 3 2-light cusped clerestory windows each side. No openings to north chancel wall. Plain triple lancet east window. Gabled south transept with one high south window. East of this a sloping chapel with doorway and a 2-light window to south; also an east window. 2- light chancel window east of this. Interior. 3-bay south arcade of octagonal piers with moulded polygonal bases and capitals. Double chamfered arches. Wide tower arch on circular responds with polygonal capitals below double chamfered arch. 7-bay nave roof of crenellated moulded tie beams on arched braces dropping on wall posts to corbels. Corbels are stone grotesques and animals. On ties are King post spurs to moulded ridge piece and struts to moulded purlins. Only corbels, King spurs and struts are pre-1882. Late C14 font with shafts to stem and encircled quatrefoils to bowl panels. Chancel arch re-uses a pair of crocket capitals. C19 chancel roof as nave but with traceried spandrels to the arched braces. Head corbels are C19."

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