Middle Rasen / Middle Rasen Drax / Middle Rasen Tupholme / Rasa / Rase / Resne
Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns
Scene Description: the damage to the upper rim is evident here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5916330] [accessed 25 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt
Scene Description: Source caption: "Middle Rasen, St. Peter's Church: The Norman doorway. Comprising zigzag, crenellation and beakhead carvings."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5135207] [accessed 25 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Middle Rasen: St. Peter's Church".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5135205] [accessed 25 December 2018]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, SS Peter & Paul church, Middle Rasen. Originally, two churches existed in Middle Rasen resulting from disputes which had arisen between an Abbot and a Prior. They were separately dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. Drax Priory, in Yorkshire, was responsible for St Paul’s church whilst the present church, initially dedicated to St Peter, was built by the inmates of Tupholme Abbey. Centuries later, both churches having fallen into an extreme state of disrepair, St Peter’s church was largely restored with materials derived from the redundant church of St Paul. The tower is built in three stages, divided by freestone string courses, and has an embattled parapet and four angle pinnacles with, initially, a gargoyle beneath each of them. The buttresses on the western angles were added to give strength at the time of the church’s restoration. The tower was also strengthened with iron tie rods with cross plates just below each of the two floors. The two lower stages are plain except for an undecorated doorway on the west side and small Norman slit windows in the south and west of the second stage. The arch into the nave of the church is indicative of the true age of the lower sections of the tower. The third, or bell stage, has a two-light window with four-centred arch, in each side. The east side of the tower shows the pitch of the earlier roof. Following the restoration of the church the lofty Perpendicular windows of the 15th century in the nave and chancel, together with the embattled parapets and the heightened and pinnacled tower, all tend to give an overall impression of a church of that period rather than its true 12th century origin. The church now consists of a nave and chancel which are embattled and pinnacle on the south side, north aisle, south porch and an embattled and pinnacle tower. It is built of the local brown ironstone from Walesby, with limestone weatherings. The original Norman church is much in evidence; the south doorway, the chancel arch and the lower sections of the tower in particular. The south entrance door is a splendid example of Norman work being one of the most impressive Norman doorways in the country. The chancel arch is unexpectedly high, the responds of which have their ornamental fluted capitals; and some outstanding circular, beaded and scalloped medallions (paterae), with a simple round recess as the hub, are set into the quoin stones. The arch itself is pointed and usually considered as later, although the pointed arch was used in Durham Cathedral as early as 1130 and was in general use by the end of the century. The north arcade is of about 1200, and consists of three bays with heavily moulded pointed arches set on massive circular pillars. [Info taken from leaflet in church.]"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 December 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2744422] [accessed 25 December 2018]
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman Font in the church of Ss. Peter & Paul, Middle Rasen, Lincolnshire. This font was installed in 1972 and originally came from Gate Burton near Gainsborough." [NB: this claim is questionable, as Gate Burton has its own Norman font, different from this one [cf. FontNotes and Index entry for Gate Burton]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Wright, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2005 by David Wright [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/70277] [accessed 25 December 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter & St Paul's Church, Middle Rasen".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5916330] [accessed 25 December 2018]
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