Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204677
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204677
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, 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 HELEN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirmington
- National Grid Reference:
- TA1061411296
Details
KIRMINGTON MAIN STREET
TA 11 SW
(south side)
7/27 Church of Saint Helen
6/11/67
GV II*
Parish church. C13 tower, early C14 north arcade, later C14 south arcade.
Spire erected 1838. Restorations of 1859-60 by S S Teulon included
partially rebuilding chancel, opening blocked arcades and tower arch and
providing new aisles. Spire restored 1895. Ironstone ashlar tower, much
weathered, remainder in limestone and ironstone with limestone ashlar
dressings. Welsh slate roof; copper-covered wooden spire. West tower, 4-
bay aisled nave and 2-bay chancel with vestry adjoining north side. 3-stage
tower: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses to first 2 stages, stair lighting
slits to south-west corner. Small lancets to first stage, blocked to south;
string course. Clockface to second stage; string course. Twin lancet
belfry openings, string course, weathered angle gargoyles and low parapet.
Wrought-iron parapet railings with plain rails, single top rail and ball
finials to principals. Hexagonal spire with weathercock. North aisle:
plinth, buttresses, sill string-course; pointed 2-light traceried windows.
South aisle: plinth; pointed 3-light traceried windows, pointed moulded
south door. Chancel: pointed chamfered south door, pointed 3-light
traceried north and south windows, pointed 5-light east window with hood-
mould and foliate stops. All windows C19 with geometrical tracery.
Interior. Tall triple-chamfered segmental-pointed tower arch with hood-
mould and plain chamfered jambs. North arcade of pointed double-chamfered
arches with hood-moulds and carved headstops on broad filleted quatrefoil
piers with water-holding bases, circular plinths and moulded capitals with a
remarkable series of carved heads, including bishop, a crowned head and a
signum triciput. South arcade of pointed double-chamfered arches on
octagonal piers with single rings around lower sections, plain moulded
capital, chamfered bases and square plinths. C19 pointed double chamfered
chancel arch with shafted inner order. C19 4-bay nave roof with collar,
king struts and curved wind-braces. Ornate ashlar and marble font dated
1860. The north and south aisles were demolished in 1742 and 1774
respectively, and the roof lowered in 1789. N Pevsner and J Harris, The
Buildings of England : Lincolnshire, 1978, 288-9; drawing by C Nattes, 1795,
Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library. Associated Architectural Societies
Reports and Papers, Vol V, pt 1, 1859, xx; ibid pt 2, 1860, lxxi.
Listing NGR: TA1061411296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165930
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 288-9
Associated Architectural Societies Reports and Papers in Part 1, Vol. 5, (1859), 20
Associated Architectural Societies Reports and Papers in Part 2, Vol. 5, (1860), 71
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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