Chancel restored and nearly rebuilt by Pearson, 1885-6. The Perp W tower of the usual E Notts type (ashlared, diagonal butresses, battlements, 8 pinnacles), dated 1504, survived him. The N side is all new, by WS Weatherley and Jones 1891-2; the S side goes with the tower. Inside, the N arcade with circular piers and low moulded capitals was originally EE. Font Norman, with a small kind of lozenge frieze at the top. Altar table Elizabethan. Small C14 and C15 fragments of stained glass in the tower window. Mutilated effigy of a knight, second half of C14, and John Helwys, 1599, alabaster - the effigy has gone. (1)
St Martin's Church is now redundant. (2)
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According to an entry in the Acts Book in 1638 the church was in a poor state. In 1865 Sir Stephen Glynne described the church thus: ‘A small church having a nave and chancel with a western tower and south porch. There was once a north aisle, and the arcade may be traced in the north wall… The tower is a very nice plain one of Perpendicular character. (4)

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 303 (Monograph). SNT4.

<2> Thoroton Society, 1978, TTS, p 11 (Published document). SNT391.

<3> Dennison, Ed, Sep 1999, St Martin's Church, Saundby, Nottinghamshire. Archaeological Watching Brief, pp 2 - 4 (Unpublished document). SNT2172.

<4> Denny Plowman, 1978, The Ruined and Redundant Churches of Nottinghamshire - A Survey (Unpublished document). SNT5716.