Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308600
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308600
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, 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 MARGARET, 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:
- Withern with Stain
- National Grid Reference:
- TF4248082188
Details
TF 48 SW
4/51
9.3.67
WITHERN WITH STAIN
CHURCH LANE
(north side)
Church of St Margaret
G.V.
II
Parish church, now closed. C15, 1812 rebuilding, 1875
restoration. Red brick, ashlar dressings, render and slate
roofs. Nave with bellcote, aisles, south porch, chancel, north
chapel and vestry. The west wall is featureless apart from small
4 centred arched light and 4 stepped buttresses. A gabled
ashlar bellcote to apex. To the north wall are 3 three light
windows with intersecting tracery. The rendered north chapel
has a semi-circular headed window on the north and in the east
wall a reset C15 window of 2 lights, and a similar window in the
north wall of the chancel, may be reused clerestory lights. The
east window is of 3 lights with C19 reticulated tracery. In the
south wall of the chancel is a window of 2 lights and a further
2 light window in the vestry. The south nave windows match those
to the north. The later C19 gabled porch has a single chamfered
outer arch, with C15 reveals and reset human head label stops.
The inner doorway is 4 centred and single chamfered, and is
recut. Interior. 3 bay nave arcades. C15, octagonal piers,
double chamfered arches. Plain pointed chancel arch, double
chamfered arch to north chapel and similar at east end of north
aisle. Fittings removed apart from C19 west gallery and facetted
pulpit. At the east end of the south aisle a marble wall
monument 1858 with draped urn. Church is now in advanced state
of decay.
Listing NGR: TF4248082188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195654
- 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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