CHURCH OF ST ADELWOLD

CHURCH OF ST ADELWOLD, ABBEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1063076
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ADELWOLD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ADELWOLD, ABBEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1063076
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ADELWOLD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ADELWOLD, ABBEY LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ADELWOLD, ABBEY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Alvingham
National Grid Reference:: TF 36794 91315

Details

ALVINGHAM ABBEY LANE TF 39 SE (east side) 4/3 Church of 9.3.67 St. Adelwold G.V. I

Parish church. c.1300, C15, C16, 1806, restored 1933. Coursed chalk, greenstone, ironstone and limestone rubble, limestone ashlar, red brick, some render. Slate roofs with stone coped gables and cross finials. West tower, nave with south porch, chancel with north chapel. West tower of c.1300 with moulded plinth and 4 stage diagonal buttresses. Pointed west window with 3 pointed lights, intersecting tracery, hood mould and head label stops. Moulded string course above and below small rectangular window with shallow pointed head and slatted shutters. Bell openings on all 4 sides, each a pointed opening with Y tracery, hood mould and label stops. South side with 4 stage rectangular stair turret with 2 slit lights. Moulded eaves above with large gargoyle in centre of each face. Battlements with corner pinnacles. North side of nave with buttress to west and 2 C15 rectangular windows to east, each with 3 cusped, round headed lights and small vertical mullions rising from top of each light and each with moulded cornice. Red brick north chapel of 1806 with lean-to roof, plank door to north and 2 light ashlar dressed mullion window to east. Red brick chancel of 1806 with ashlar plinth and moulded brick eaves. East window with segmental head and 3 cusped and pointed lights. South side of chancel plain. South side of nave with quoins on west and east corners. C19 window to east with segmental head and 3 pointed, cusped lights with hood mould. Late C16 south porch with plinth and south doorway with flat head, rounded corners, broad chamfered surround and iron gate. Porch interior flanked by stone benches. Inner doorway of c.1300, with pointed, askew head, roll moulded head and jambs in one and plank door. Interior tower arch of c.1300, with richly moulded, pointed head supported on plain polygonal corbel to north, and stylised foliate corbel to south. Late C13 doorway inside tower with pointed head, and chanfered head and jambs in one. Broad C14 chancel arch with pointed, double chamfered head dying into walls. Pointed, chamfered archway of 1806 leading to north chapel. C13 octagonal font on richly moulded base and plinth. C20 pews, altar rail and pulpit. C19 roofs. Grey and white marble monument with urn to John Emeris, died 1835. Painted shield set in wreath above south doorway.

Listing NGR: TF3679191317

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Legacy System number:: 195446
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.