CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS

CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, BACK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063371
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, BACK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063371
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, BACK 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 SAINT NICHOLAS, BACK LANE

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Searby cum Owmby
National Grid Reference:: TA 07255 05865

Details

TA OO NE SEARBY BACK LANE CUM OWMBY (North side) 4/134 Church of St. Nicholas 1-11-66 G.V. II

Parish Church: 1832, but base of tower is of stone and could be Medieval. Yellow brick, ashlar dressings, slate roof with lead dressings, stone coped gable to nave, hipped end to chancel. Western tower, nave, chancel. 3 stage tower with plinth, 2 string courses, battlemented parapet. First stage has single pointed light on the south side. Belfry stage has a double light under a pointed arch, clock on south face. West side is as south but no clock, and plank and muntin door under a Tudor style 4 centred arch with a narrow cornice. North side has a single light in the first stage. North side of nave has three 3 light windows with 4 centred arched heads to each light and a hood mould. Plain moulded cornice. Chancel is splayed at the eastern angles, and has a doorway in a Tudor style arch like the west door. The east window is a 4 centred arch with hood mould, of 3 lights with reticulated tracery renewed in C20, South side of nave matches the north. Interior has plain whitewashed walls with a wooden ceiling. Western tower has a porch in the base with a plain C19 stair to a gallery on the south side, the west door is also in the Tudor style with 2 glazed lights and bordered stained glass surround, 4 panels beneath. On nave walls are 3 lozenge shaped plaques bearing figures of saints. The west gallery is of wood with rounded angles, standing on 4 octagonal pillars, the front is panelled in the Tudor style, matching the rest, and in the centre panel is an inscription in gold lettering, "This loft was erected in the year MDCCCXXXII at Mrs. Roadley's expense, John Feravy Church Warden". The chancel arch is pointed with double splay, no imposts. There are 2 further lozenge shaped panels in the chancel walls. Fittings: carved by Vicar Townsend between 1845-1889. The pine pews all match with roll moulded tops, pierced quatrefoils and trefoils. Monuments: In the chancel at the east end are a pair of white marble tablets on black marble backgrounds with sarcophagi, urns and scrolls. On the north side to Richard Dixon Roadley, d.1826, and on the south to Richard Roadley d.1825 and Ann Roadley d.l858. Both by G. Earle of Hull. In the nave, marble tablet with Gothick stone surround to John Frank d.1769. Stained glass in nave dated 1889, dedicated to Townsend, the Vicar who carved the fittings: the glass in the top of the east window appears to be late C18. The font is late C18, an octagonal bowl on an octagonal pedestal with a square base.

Listing NGR: TA0725505865

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Legacy System number:: 196680
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.