Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161283
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161283
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH 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 ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waltham
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 26151 03910
Details
TA 20 SE
7/47
WALTHAM ,
HIGH STREET (south side),
Church of All Saints
4.1.67
GV II*
Parish church. Late C13 - early C14 tower, south aisle, arcades and
chancel. Restorations of 1867 and 1874 by James Fowler of Louth included
re-roofing, re-seating, new tower ceiling, rebuilding chancel and south
aisle, new vestry. North aisle rebuilt 1876. Tower restored and top stage
rebuilt by E W Farebrother of Grimsby. Organ chamber of 1911. Ironstone
rubble and ashlar, with limestone ashlar patching, dressings, organ chamber
and tower parapet. Slate roof. West tower, 3-bay nave with 3-bay north
aisle, 4-bay south aisle, 3-bay chancel with organ chamber and vestry
adjoining north side. C20 church hall of no special interest adjoins
central section of south aisle. 3-stage tower in Early English style:
plinth, clasping buttresses, cillband; shafted west lancet with twin lancets
above; shafted two-light plate-traceried belfry openings with pierced
quatrefoil above and dogtooth moulded surround; gargoyles, coped embattled
parapet. Plinth, buttresses to C19 organ chamber and north aisle. Latter
has C19 2-light square headed traceried north windows, pointed 3-light
traceried west window. Organ chamber: two pointed 2-light traceried
windows, C19 to right, restored C13 to left, probably re-set from chancel.
South aisle: buttresses, pointed triple-chamfered door with plain hoodmould;
C19 square-headed 3-light traceried windows, central one with original C14
head and section of hoodmould; C19 pointed 3-light traceried east and west
windows. Chancel: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses and C19 buttresses
between bays; south side has pointed chamfered door, late C14-C15 square-
headed 2-light traceried window, early C14 pointed 2-light traceried window.
Large C19 3-light traceried east window. Interior. 3-bay arcades of
pointed double-chamfered arches on quatrefoil piers with diagonal shafts
between the foils, moulded capitals and bases on diagonally-set plinths, the
north piers slightly more ornate. Wide pointed double-chamfered tower arch
on shafted responds with plain moulded capitals and bases. Blocked square-
headed door and outline of former nave gable above. Trefoiled ogee-headed
piscina to north aisle. Square-headed rood loft doorway to south aisle.
Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch with broach-stopped outer chamfer and
plain moulded capitals on chamfered jambs. Chancel: cillband to east end;
triple sedilia with detached shafts, moulded capitals and pointed moulded
arches beneath crocketed and finialed gables; double piscina formerly with
trefoiled arches (central sections now missing) beneath square hoodmould
with carved foliate ornament; pointed chamfered north door, C19 double-
chamfered arch to organ chamber. C19 roofs throughout: quadripartite timber
vaulting to tower with moulded ribs and carved boss. Brass to Joanna
Waltham (died 1420) and her son and daughter: small half-figures with
inscription below, re-set on chancel south window-cill; C14 brass
inscription to John and Mary Waltham re-set on chancel north window-cill.
Fine C14-C15 Perpendicular font has ornate octagonal bowl with carved
flowers and angels holding shields, on later shaft with trefoiled panels and
moulded base. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England:
Lincolnshire, 1978, p 415.
Listing NGR: TA2615103910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164414
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1978), 415
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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