Church of St Augustine
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, LYNN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126690
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, LYNN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126690
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, LYNN ROAD
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 AUGUSTINE, LYNN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46386 09997
Details
WISBECH LYNN ROAD
TF 41 SE TF 4609
(South Side)
2/78 6/78 CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE
GV II
Church, built in 1869 as part of the Park development scheme.
Architect, Mr. Bassett-Smith. Yellow gault brick with red brick
banding and decoration and limestone dressings. Slate roof with
red patterned ridge tiles. Gothic style. Buttressed bays to
single storey chancel and aisles to north and south of nave with
clerestorey. Windows with trefoiled lights grouped in pairs, or
threes, with stone cills. Stone copings to gable parapets with
'kneelers'. Cross finial to west and bell turret to east of
nave. Moulded brick cornices. Entrance in north aisle; west
gable entrance with two-centred, stone-coped arch. Interior
intact with contemporary and later memorial stained glass.
VCH Cambs, p.250.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.185, p.256, 1898.
P.H. Peckover, photographic collection, p.162, 1931.
Wisbech Society Annual Report, 1973.
Listing NGR: TF4638609997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 256
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 185
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 250
Wisbech Society Annual Report in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1973)
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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