Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307131
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307131
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elkington
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 28588 90424
Details
NORTH ELKINGTON TF 29 SE 3/35 Church of St. Helen 9.3.67 II
Parish church, now closed. 1851-2 by S. S. Teulon in Early English style. Squared limestone rubble, stone coped slate roofs. Nave with western bellcote, chancel, vestry, south porch. Nave and chancel are undifferentiated externally. At the west end are 2 tall lancets with above a vesica. The gabled single belfry has a scalloped arch and narrow angle shafts and is surmounted by a cross fleury. On the north side of the nave are 2 lancets and a vestry with small paired lancets to the east wall. The chancel east wall has 3 stepped lancets under a continuous hood mould. In the chancel south wall are 2 small lancets. The nave south wall has 2 lancets, one to each side of the porch and a paired lancet with trefoil over. The gabled south porch has a deeply moulded outer arch with angle shafts and hood mould having floriate label stops. The inner doorway has a continuously chamfered pointed reveal and the door has decorative ironwork. Built into both side walls of the porch are C13 coffin lid fragments, that on the west side being a particularly ornate cross fleury. Interior. Retains all C19 stained glass. Nave and chancel are structurally undivided but there is a low cancellum screen with central steps to higher sanctuary. The roofs are arch braced supported by carved corbels, those to the sanctuary having tail terminals. The rear arches of the eastern windows have collared shafts, annular capitals and moulded heads with dog toothing. In the north wall is a pulpit modelled on C13 original at Tupholme Abbey. A trefoil headed moulded arched door leads to the vestry, and a turning to the left leads to the canted pulpit in the thickness of the wall, which also has a moulded trefoil arch over. The 2 openings are divided by a wall shaft with annular capital and base with tail terminal. All fittings are C19 apart from the C14 font, plain octagonal bowl and moulded base with C19 moulded shaft.
Listing NGR: TF2858890424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195287
- 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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