The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Guthlac (medieval)
Parish church
Market Deeping is a market town in the South Kesteven district of the county, 5 miles N of Peterborough. The church is built of ashlar and coursed limestone rubble and stands to the W of the town centre. It consists of a W tower, an aisled nave with a clerestorey and a S porch and a chancel with a N vestry, formerly a chapel. The tower dates from 1440, and the nave is 12thc in origin, its doorway reset in the S aisle. The arcades date from the 13thc, the N being early and the S late. The aisles were rebuilt in the 15thc, and the chancel restored and its arch replaced by Fowler in 1878. Romanesque sculture is recorded here from the S nave doorway and in the arch to the former N chapel.
Parish church
Situated on a picturesque, woody knoll, St. Guthlac’s is a small Lincolnshire church consisting of a nave, N aisle with E chapel, chancel, and a S porch. The S doorway, chancel, and N arcade are from the 13th century. The exterior W wall has the date 1657 in the gable which must refer to its rebuilding; the N aisle was rebuilt in 1850.
The chancel arch and imposts (re-used capitals) on the S porch entrance are Romanesque.