CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1317137
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1964
List Entry Name:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1317137
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1964
List Entry Name:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN STREET

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Pilham
National Grid Reference:
SK8624493801

Details

SK 89 SE PILHAM MAIN STREET
(North side)

9/42 Church of
All Saints
16.12.64
G.V. II*

Parish church. c.1750 with C19 additions. Limestone and blue
lias, banded coursed rubble, ashlar dressings and pecked ashlar
walling on south side, lead roofs. Nave, western tower, apsidal
chancel. Tower of 2 stages with chamfer topped plinth, concave
string course at top surmounted by embattled parapet. 4 stubby
corner obelisk pinnacles. Ground floor has single west semi-
circular headed window with plain ashlar surround. Above is a
blank keyed oculus with a short section of chamfered string
course beneath. In the upper stage are single wooden latticed
semi-circular headed belfry lights in the 4 sides. North of
tower is a small C19 boiler house. Nave north wall has plinth,
plain eaves course and raised stone coped gable to lead roof.
Single 2 light window, the lights having semi-circular heads,
beneath plain tympanum. Reveals and mullions are chamfered with
simple impost blocks, contained within a semi-circular headed
arch with raised keystone and chamfered plain reveals. Short
ashlar apse with plinth and moulded eaves course. Central
Venetian window. To south wall, in ashlar, 2 two light windows
matching that on the north. Access is provided by west door
south of the tower. C19 planked door with traceried fanlight,
cavetto moulded surround with plinth blocks, moulded impost
blocks and raised triple keystone. Interior: a panelled
vestibule leads to nave, which has crude dado panelling and cyma
moulded plaster cornice. To the tower is a small panelled double
door with L hinges. This door together with panelling re-used in
the vestibule, and dado panelling to apse and pew ends is all
raised and fielded. Wide round headed arch to chancel with
single plain inner order. Of the original fittings, only the
pulpit and altar rails with their robust turned balusters
survive. Otherwise, the altar, lectern and font dated 1879 are
all C19. Fine C19 cast iron circular candleabrum with fleur de
lys brattishing and 4 three branch pew candlesticks with twisted
shafts and shamrocks. In the chancel is a monument to William
Dunkin, d.1838, in the form of a Greek altar with anthemion in
pediment and flaming urn with acanthus base above. In the
chancel are good stained glass windows, and the early nave
windows retain their delicate geometric lead cames.


Listing NGR: SK8624493801

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
196852
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.

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