Church of St Olave
CHURCH OF ST OLAVE, RUCKLAND CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280828
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Olave
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OLAVE, RUCKLAND CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280828
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Olave
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OLAVE, RUCKLAND CHURCH LANE
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 OLAVE, RUCKLAND CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Maidenwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 33415 78049
Details
MAIDENWELL RUCKLAND CHURCH LANE TF 37 NW (north-east side)
7/29 Church of St.Olave 9.3.67 II
Parish church. 1885 by W. Scorer. Green sandstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings. Plain tiled roof with decorative red ridge tiles, overhanging eaves and bargeboards, and a small bellcote incorporated under overhanging west gable supported on a wooden frame. Nave and chancel in one with west bellcote. West front with large plate wheel window. North side with single lancet. East end with pointed window with 3 trefoil headed plate lights. South side with single lancet with doorway to west, with pointed head and plank door. C19 wagon roof, pews, pulpit and lectern. C20 octagonal font. Fragmentary medieval stoup. Cll coffin lid inscribed with a foliated cross. Another small fragment, probably Cll, inscribed with cross. Both fragments re- set in south wall. Gravestone re-set in west wall to Charles Humfrey, died 1719. Said to be the smallest church in Lincolnshire according to local oral tradition.
Listing NGR: TF3341578049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195913
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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