Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063170
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063170
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, 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 MARGARET, 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:
- Edlington with Wispington
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 20519 71688
Details
WISPINGTON CHURCH LANE TF 27 SW 4/63 Church of St. Margaret 14-9-66 II Parish church, now closed. 1863 by John Atkinson of York. Squared grey sandstone rubble with limestone dressings, slate roofs with stone coped gables and crosses fleury. Western tower, nave, chancel, south porch, vestry. The 2 stage tower projects only slightly from the west end of the nave. It has 2 stepped buttresses which support a blank pointed arch. The 2 light west window has a trefoil over and there is a quatrefoil above. The belfry stage has paired lancets in the principal directions and it is surmounted by a broached spire. To the north wall are 3 paired lancets and a single lancet window. To the north east angle of the nave is a chimney with ashlar stack. The vestry has a single east window. The chancel east window is of 3 pointed lights, united under a hood mould, with label stops. The chancel south wall has 2 lancets with hood moulds having carved decorative label stops, featuring birds and animals. The nave south wall has 2 pairs of flush lancets and the gabled south porch has a single hollow chamfered order to the pointed doorway, with hood mould and label stops, and a single chamfered inner doorway. Interior. Font, pulpit and a relief of St. Margaret were all carved in stone by the vicar, Rev. Charles Pratt Terrot. Monuments. To the Philips family, one 1715 with putto heads and a skull, the other 1720 more architectural with pilasters. This family lived at Hall Farm, Wispington during late C16-1720.
Listing NGR: TF2051971688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195245
- 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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