St Martin of Tours' Church, Saundby

St Martin of Tours’ Church stands in the quiet village of Saundby, Nottinghamshire. A redundant Anglican church, it is built of stone with lead and slate roofs in the Perpendicular style. The plan includes a nave with a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel, a vestry and a west tower. The tower rises in three stages with buttresses and a battlemented parapet topped by eight crocketted pinnacles. A clock face is set into the west side of the top stage, and each side has a double-lancet bell opening. The church’s fabric records centuries of change. It began in the 13th century, with later additions in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. The nave arcade dates from the 13th century, and the tower was added in 1504. In 1885–86 John Loughborough Pearson restored the chancel, and in 1891 Weatherley and Jones worked on the north aisle. Inside, a 19th-century font stands on five octagonal columns, and the east window’s stained glass is by Clayton and Bell from 1865. Visitors find a ring of five bells, one undated and three cast by Oldfield between 1605 and 1638. The fifth bell was made by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough. An alabaster memorial to John Helwys from 1599 and a 14th-century knight’s effigy add to the interior interest. Outside, the north aisle shows three triple-lancet windows and a blocked doorway, while the chancel’s parapet carries crocketed pinnacles. The south porch is capped by a gable surmounted by a cross.