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From: Renee Redshaw in Melbourne, Australia
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Jenny Birmingham

Old Leake - St.Mary
A large structure on the main road north of Boston where there 
are many fine Fenland churches. Navigating the Wash sailors 
were probably architectural experts, able to distinguish one tower
from another through the marsh mists. Today the church lies in
a churchyard, it's character taken away by the practice of having
the tombstones laid flat.

The clerestory is one of the finest in Lincolnshire as with much
of the church, attempting to rival it's Boston neighbour.  The 
church originally was Norman and big, traces of it seen in the
shafts at each end  of the nave interior.  It was rebuilt at the end
of the 13th century with early and late decorated windows with
more alterations and additions in the Perpendicular period.  It 
has a wide and sunny nave and the restored chancel finds
the openess of the nave too naked and resorts to opaque 
glass to shut out the world.

Old Leake has what it claims are England's only poor-boxes
hollowed out from a single log.
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