Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083231
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083231
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, WEST 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 MARY, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Butterwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 83487 05845
Details
SE 80 NW WEST BUTTERWICK WEST STREET (north side, off)
8/155 Church of St Mary
GV II
Parish church. 1841 by Briggs; later C19 vestry in matching style and materials. West gallery removed and interior fittings renewed in 1879. White brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style. West tower with south door, 3-bay nave, single-bay chancel/sacristy with later vestry adjoining north side. Plinth. 2-stage tower: tall first stage has diagonal buttresses with offsets rising to short stone-coped piers, Tudor-arched hollow-chamfered south door in square-headed chamfered reveal with foliate carvings to spandrels, hoodmould and head stops; west lancet with hoodmould, single narrow lancets above to north and south. Splay-footed octagonal belfry with alternate blind lancets and lancet openings with hoodmoulds and wooden louvres, clockface to west. String course, coped embattled parapet. Octagonal spire with ashlar finial and wrought-iron weather-vane. Nave: thin diagonal buttresses and buttresses between bays, rising to coped piers above parapet; pointed 2- light Y-traceried windows with hoodmoulds, string course, coped parapet. Chancel/sacristy: angle buttresses, pointed traceried north and south lancets with hoodmoulds and shield stops, east side has buttress between chancel to left with triple traceried lancets with hoodmoulds and shield stops, and sacristy to right with similar twin lancets; moulded string course, coped embattled parapet. Vestry has 4-centred arch door and lancet to east, coped embattled parapet. Hipped roof. Interior. Pointed chamfered door to nave, pointed chamfered chancel arch with hoodmould, vaulted roof to sanctuary, pointed chamfered door to sacristy. 6-bay ceiled nave roof with plain corbelled tie beams. Marble wall tablet to Michael Goodsir of 1839. C19 octagonal font. Reset fragments of early (perhaps medieval) stained glass to north, C19 stained glass to south and east, the latter by Thomas Ward of London. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 419. D L Roberts, "Lincolnshire and Humberside", in J Hadfield (ed), The Shell Book of English Villages, 1980, p 379; photographs in NMR.
Listing NGR: SE8348705845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165220
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 419
Hadfield, J, The Shell Book of English Villages, (1980), 379
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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