Highways and Byways in LincolnshireRawnsley, W. F. (Willingham Franklin)
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Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire
Rawnsley, W. F. (Willingham Franklin)
Lincolnshire (England) -- Description and travel
To the right and left of Wellbourn are two places which should not be
missed. _Brant Broughton_, with its beautiful spire, and _Temple Bruer_,
where are the remains of a preceptory of the Knights Templars. The church
of _Brant Broughton_ (pronounced Bruton) is a beautiful structure, and
all in perfect order, the magnificent lofty chancel having been built
to match the rest of the church by Bodley and Garner in 1876. To take
the woodwork first, the tall handsome screen and the chancel stalls
are in memory of the late rector, Canon E. H. Sutton, as is also the
lofty carved font cover, whose doors open and display three carved and
coloured figures, one being St. Nicholas, the patron saint, with the
three children in a pickling tub, whom he is said to have raised to life
after their murder by a butcher, as is so quaintly represented in the
famous black font in Winchester Cathedral. The roof, which in the first
instance was of a higher pitch, as seen by the string course, is an exact
reproduction, both in shape and colour, of the old Perpendicular one
which it replaced, and is in appearance upborne by figures of angels with
outspread wings. The three tall arches of the aisle arcades and chancel
are Early English, two of the pillars are octagonal. These arches are
very high, though not so high as those in _Hough-on-the-Hill_, which
are of about the same date. The three-light clerestory windows, five on
each side, and the roof to the nave, were added with the upper stages
of the tower in 1460, and the Perpendicular aisle windows are large and
handsome, and have a transom running across the tracery in the head of
each. They are filled with most interesting glass, good in design, and
mostly good in colour, all of which was made in the village by the late
Canon Sutton, who also filled several windows in Lincoln Minster. The
ironwork in the church was also made by Mr. F. Coldron and Son at the
village forge, where excellent work is always being done and sent to all
parts of the country. All the work inside the church, and the chancel
in particular, is beautifully finished in every detail, and bears the
impress of being all the work of one mind, and as that mind was Bodley’s,
and he took the utmost pains with it, it need hardly be said that it
comes very near perfection.
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