CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA

CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA, COLEBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1260344
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA, COLEBY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1260344
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA, COLEBY ROAD

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 ETHELDREDA, COLEBY ROAD

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

District:: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Halton
National Grid Reference:: SE 90512 20838

Details

SE 92 SW WEST HALTON COLEBY ROAD (east side)

2/17 Church of St Etheldreda

6.11.67 II* GV

Church. Medieval origins, rebuilt 1698 using medieval masonry and details, including C13-14 traceried windows. Porch, vestry and nave gallery added 1837; restored and chancel rebuilt 1876-7. West tower, 3-bay nave with north vestry and south porch, 2-bay chancel. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings. Lead roofs to nave and chancel; slate roofs to porch and vestry. Chamfered plinth, quoins. 2-stage tower: stepped diagonal buttresses, round-headed west window with raised imposts and keystone, moulded string course, round-headed 2-light belfry openings with chamfered jambs and Y-tracery, gargoyles to north and south, embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles. Nave: 3 pointed 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery and one pointed 3-light north window with re-set intersecting tracery. Porch has pointed chamfered outer arch, inner slightly pointed chamfered arch with moulded imposts and raised keystone. Vestry has round-headed west window with wooden Y-tracery. Chancel: stepped buttresses with moulded bases, moulded cill band, windows similar to nave, (C19 tracery to east window), with a fine series of carved headstops; coped gable and shaped kneelers. Interior: round-headed tower door with raised imposts; nave gallery at west end with painted Gothic-style panelled front supported on pair of slender cast iron columns with foliate capitals; pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on shafted responds with plain moulded capitals. Chancel has moulded cill band, carved headstops to windows and carved roof corbels. Memorials: gravestone of 1666 to J. Merriweather, Rector, in chancel floor; 1782 marble wall tablet with draped urn to John flail and wife Hannah. Moulded octagonal pulpit base and steps. C17 font in tower, made from medieval column and base. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshsire, 1978,"419; Drawing by C Nattes, 1794, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.

Listing NGR: SE9051220838

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Legacy System number:: 440993
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 419

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.