Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063641
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-10-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/05890/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063641
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
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 PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Skendleby
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 43267 69790
Details
SKENDLEBY MAIN STREET TF 46 NW (west side)
8/60 Church of St.Peter and St.Paul 3.2.67 II
Parish church. C13, C14, restored 1875 by Sir G. G. Scott. Ashlar with dressed greenstone to the chancel, some stock brick. Slate roofs. Coped gables with single ridge crosses to the east chancel and the porch. Set on a chamfered plinth and buttressed. Tower, nave, south porch, north vestry and chancel. Tower of 2 stages with angle buttresses to the lower stage, the stage above, all except the east side, is slightly recessed apart from the angles, giving the impression of slim clasping buttresses, these terminate at the bell chamber stage. Embattled parapet decorated each side with single shield. West wall with arched C19 2 light window with cusped flowing tracery. Above is a single rectangular light. 4 bell chamber openings each with 2 arched and cusped lights and single transom under a flat arch, over that on the east side is a single clock face. The west wall of the north nave has a single arched C14 restored 3 light window with cusped flowing tracery, hood mould and label stops. The north wall has 2 restored 3 light arched C14 windows with reticulated tracery. The gable apex of the east nave has 2 trefoil arched and cusped openings. Projecting from the north chancel is the vestry with single restored C14 2 light window in the east wall with cusped tracery, hood mould and label stops under a flat arch. The east chancel has a single 4 light arched and restored C14 window with cusped flowing tracery, hood mould and label stops, over is a single lozenge containing a roundel. The south chancel has a single C14 3 light arched window with reticulated tracery, hood mould and label stops. To the left is a chamfered arched doorway with hood mould and on the far left a single 2 light C14 window with cusped tracery under a flat arch. The south nave has 2 restored C14 arched 3 light windows with reticulated tracery. To the left is the stock brick gabled porch with ashlar dressings and moulded arched entrance, hood mould and label stops. Inner moulded arched doorway. Interior. Off- centre double chamfered tower arch with moulded jambs. Double chamfered chancel arch with low C19 screen under with blind tracery. Double chamfered chancel/vestry arch. South chancel, east window, with low sill forming a sedilia, to the left is a C14 ogee arched and cusped piscina. Pointed segmental arched C14 aumbry with hood mould and human head label stops. South nave with ogee arched piscina. C15 ashlar font, the pedestal decorated with blind perpendicular tracery, the octagonal bowl with 8 carved heads separated by small buttresses and topped with a frieze of fleuron and carved heads. Memorial to Maria Brackenbury, 1834. The inscription tablet in the form of a sarcophagus surmounted by a draped urn. That to Richard Pilkington, 1772, is topped with a pediment.
Listing NGR: TF4326769790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195986
- 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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