CHURCH OF ST HELEN

CHURCH OF ST HELEN, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146826
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1964
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST HELEN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST HELEN, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146826
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1964
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST HELEN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST HELEN, HIGH STREET

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 ST HELEN, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Willingham
National Grid Reference:: SK 87423 84514

Details

SK 88 SE WILLINGHAM HIGH STREET (west side)

Church of 4/74 St. Helen 16.12.64 G.V. II

Parish church. Mid C12, late C17, 1880 by Brodrick and Smith. Coursed limestone rubble, limestone ashlar. Plain tiled roofs with stone coped gables, cross finials and decorative ridge tiles. West tower, nave with south porch, rectangular chancel with north vestry. C12 west tower re-modelled in C19, with plinth, quoins, and small, pointed, very narrow west doorway to left, with chamfered surround and plank door. Small lancet above to the right with rectangular window immediately above. 2 string courses above. 2 small rectangular staircase lights on north side. Bell openings on all 4 sides, each with C19 pointed head with 2 pointed cusped lights with lower cusped ogee tracery, continuous hood moulds joined on all 4 sides by string course. C19 moulded eaves with 8 gargoyles, battlements and 8 ornate pinnacles. Plinth runs round nave and chancel. North side of nave with blocked C12 doorway to west with round head, impost blocks, chamfered jambs and hood mould. 3 C19 rectangular windows to east in C19 wall, each with 2 cusped ogee headed lights, hood mould with label stops. North vestry with 3 light pointed window in north side, with reticulated tracery, hood mould and label stops. East side with pointed doorway with chamfered surround and plank door. East end of C19 chancel with 3 light pointed window with cusped 5 petalled mouchettes, hood mould and label stops. South side of chancel with rectangular windows each of 2 round headed lights with lower cusped ogee tracery and rectangular hood mould and label stops. South side of chancel with 2 rectangular windows each with2 ogee headed cusped lights, rectangular hood mould and label stops. South porch with squat angle buttresses, string course, north and south small 2 light windows. Pointed south doorway re-using late C12 fragments with flanking columnar jambs, rich foliate capitals, that to west C19. Hood mould. Porch interior with flanking benches and pointed doorway with chamfered surround, hood mould, foliate label stops and plank door. Beyond porch to west, another C19 rectangular window with 2 cusped ogee headed lights, hood mould and label stops. C19 interior tower arch with pointed head with inner order corbelled out on large angels, outer order chamfered; hood mould and foliate label stops. Irregularly shaped tower interior with C12 pointed chamfered doorway leading to stairs, with plank door. C17 round headed chancel arch with impost blocks, hood mould and large round label stops. c19 ;iumbry to north vestry with ornate corbels supporting wooden beam and screen around organ. C19 wagon roofs. C19 aumbry in north wall with ornate cusping, nook shafts, etc. cl7 chair with ornate panelled back and arms. Ornate C19 altar rail. Several. C14 square headed traceried bench ends. C12 drum font with small pointed arches on coupled shafts. Monuments in tower include one large marble monument to Elizabeth Dymok, died 1741, with scrolls, flowers, winged cherubs and coats-of-arms. White marble monument to Thomas Wells, died 1781, and family, with urn, lilyheads and winged cherub.

Listing NGR: SK8742384514

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Legacy System number:: 197121
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.