Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1063043
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1063043
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Manby
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 39920 86646
Details
GRIMOLDBY AND MANBY CHURCH LANE TF 38 NE (south side) 8/20 Church of St. Mary 9.3.67 II*
Parish church. C15, 1889 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Greenstone coursed rubble, some ironstone rubble, limestone rubble and ashlar. Slate roofs with stone coped gables and cross finials. West tower, nave with north porch, chancel. Late C15 west tower with plinth and 6 stage angle buttresses. West doorway with triangular head, moulded surround in one, plank door with pointed tracery. Pointed C15 window above with 3 pointed, cusped lights, panel tracery and hood mould running into string course. Pointed opening above with 2 cusped, ogee headed lights with quatrefoil. Slit stair lights to south. Bell openings on all 4 sides with bowtell moulded surrounds, 2 cusped, ogee headed lights, quatrefoil and hood mould. Moulded eaves with corner gargoyles. Battlements above and corner pinnacles. Plinth and moulded string course run round nave and chancel. North side of nave with C19 gabled porch with pointed doorway with head and jambs moulded in one and hood mould. C15 inner doorway with triangular head, richly moulded surround in one and plank door. 2 large C15 windows to east of porch, both with four centred heads, 3 cusped. pointed lights, panel tracery and hood mould. C19 chancel with pointed window to east with 2 cusped pointed lights, panel tracery and hood mould. East end with pointed head, 3 cusped, ogee headed lights, complex tracery design and hood mould. South side of chancel with pointed window to east with 2 pointed, cusped lights, panel tracery and hood mould. South side of nave with 2 large C15 windows with four centred heads, 3 cusped, pointed lights, panel tracery and hood mould. Blocked doorway to west with triangular head and bowtell moulded surround in one. C15 interior tower arch with double cavetto moulded head and jambs in one. Tower interior with small staircase doorway with flattened triangular head, cavetto moulded surround and plank door. Pointed double chamfered chancel arch with head and jambs moulded in one. Doorway in north wall of nave near chancel arch, leading to steps within wall, with upper rectangular opening originally giving access to rood loft, now gone. Large blocked, pointed opening in chancel to north, with double chamfered head dying into rectangular jambs. Small C19 piscina with corbelled bowl and pointed head in south wall of chancel. 2 late C18 gravestones to the Welfitt family, re-set in south wall of chancel. Small C14 cross head re-set by north-east respond of chancel arch. Fine Anglo-Saxon fragmentary slab, approximately 26 x 19 inches with cable decoration round edge andrich, finely preserved interlace. C15 octagonal font re-decorated in C19, with square plinth, octagonal panelled pedestal, crude faces on lower side of octagonal bowl, panels of bowl with C19 geometric flower head decoration. C19 tie-beam roofs with cusped queen posts. C19 and C20 pews, choir stalls and altar rail. C19 pulpit in C17 style.
Listing NGR: TF3992086646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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