CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307123
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307123
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER, MAIN 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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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 MARY AND ST PETER, MAIN STREET

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County:: Lincolnshire
District:: East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Ludford
National Grid Reference:: TF 20056 89268

Details

LUDFORD MAIN STREET TF 28 NW (north side) 6/33 Church of St Mary & St Peter (formerly listed 9.3.67 as Church of St Mary, Ludford Magna) G.V. II

Parish church. 1864 by James Fowler in Early English Style. Rockfaced ironstone, limestone ashlar dressings, banded slate roofs. Nave, with western bellcote, transepts, chancel, south porch, vestry. At the west end a large circular window set high up, with geometric tracery, rounded moulded head and angle shafts. To the gables is a single gabled bellcote with side shafts and pointed arched openings. The north wall of the nave has 3 paired lancets with trefoil heads, trefoils over and moulded hoods. There is a similar window in the west wall of the transept. In the transept north wall is a 3 light window again with geometric tracery to the head. The east gable of the nave has a facetted stack with moulded top and in the east wall of the vestry is a 2 light window. The east window of the chancel is of 3 lights with trefoil centre light and steeply arched side lights with cusped heads. At the top of the window is a traceried roundel, all in a moulded and pointed frame. In the chancel south wall are gabled buttresses, a pair of 2 light windows and a shouldered priest's door under a pitched slightly advanced bay. There is a further 2 light window in the east side of the transept and in the south wall a 3 light window with intersecting tracery and cusping. The 2 nave windows match those on the north side. All windows have concave moulded hoods with floriate stops. The gabled south porch has a richly moulded outer doorway with paired angle shafts having foliate capitals. The doorway has an unusual trefoil head with foliate cusps to the angles, an outer roll moulding and an inner order of dog toothing. The porch has stone side benches. The pointed inner doorway has a double roll moulded surround, concave moulded hood with foliate stops and a chequered redbrick and ashlar flush outer arch. Interior. The transept arches are polychromatic with red and blue brick and ashlar voussoirs, foliate corbels and dog tooth brick outer order and hood. Chancel arch has paired collared columns to reveals, foliate hood and polychromatic brickwork. In the nave a vesica shaped sunk panel records the contribution of Edward Cooper, former vicar of the parish, to the rebuilding of the church in 1864. In the north wall of the chancel a single chamfered pointed arch with moulded brick hood leads to the vestry. Further east is an elaborate gabled aumbry with angle shafts. In the south wall is a doorway with stilted arched head. The reredos is of ashlar, marble and mosaic. All fittings are C19 including the panelled ashlar pulpit with symbols of the evangelists and the delicate brass lectern. The circular font bowl and moulded base are also C19, but the clustered shafts of the middle section are C14.

Listing NGR: TF2005689268

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Legacy System number:: 195285
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.