Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1346978
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1346978
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, 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 PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stallingborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 19506 11837
Details
STALLINGBOROUGH CHURCH LANE
TA 11 SE
(west end)
4/12
Church of St Peter and St
Paul
04.01.67
GV
II*
Parish church. 1779-81. Interior restorations of 1874 included removal of
gallery, reseating, creation of quasi-chancel; roof repaired and reslated
1884; ashlar window surrounds and glazing of 1908; chancel restored 1911;
chancel screen of 1922, vestry of 1926. Orange-brown brick, in Flemish
bond to tower and south and west sides of nave/chancel, in English bond to
north and east sides; limestone ashlar dressings, with sections of ironstone
ashlar to plinth on north and east sides of nave/chancel. Welsh slate
roofs. West tower with west entrance, 4-bay nave/chancel. Tall ashlar
plinth with cyma recta moulding. Brick quoins. 3-stage tower with 2-course
brick bands between stages. Round-headed doorway with plastered surround
and keyed archivolt, double board doors with ornate wrought-iron strap
hinges. Second stage: circular openings in raised ashlar surrounds,
containing boarded window to west, recessed panels to north and south.
Round-headed belfry windows with pilastered surrounds, bracketed sills,
keyed archivolts and wooden louvres. Quoins to tower form rusticated angle
pilasters carrying plain brick frieze with ashlar eaves cornice. Pyramidal
roof with original finial and weather-vane. Nave/chancel: round-headed
windows to south and east in C20 quoined ashlar surround with moulded
imposts and keyed archivolts, brick aprons and C20 diamond-pane leaded
windows in hollow-chamfered reveals; north side has similar blind openings
but in original brick surrounds with ashlar sills, imposts and keystones.
Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice with moulded ashlar cornice and
blocking course above. West end of nave has 2-course brick band continued
from first stage of tower.
INTERIOR. Round-headed doorway from tower to
nave; nave open to chancel. Modillioned cornice, 8-bay ceiled roof with
exposed chamfered beams; inserted C19 posts and moulded brackets forming
chancel "arch". Original flagstone floor with black marble insets to nave,
C19 polychrome tiled floor to chancel. Oak chancel screen in Classical
style with Ionic pilasters and dentilled pediment; door to vestry with eared
architrave and entablature. Stained glass east window of 1897. Brass to
Sir William Ascough (d1541) and his wife: figures of Knight and Lady
approximately 0.45 metres high in costumes emblazoned with heraldic devices
inscribed scrolls issuing from mouths, inscribed plate below, and small
indent for missing brass above. Alabaster and ashlar chest tomb to Sir
Edward Ayscough (d1612) and wife Esther: effigy of Knight in armour lying on
rolled mat, with head on tasselled cushion, coat of arms at head and helmet
at feet, beside effigy of Lady lying on her side propped up on her elbow, on
chest with angle pilasters carved with trophies, inscribed black marble
frieze, and miniature figures of 5 male and 6 female children kneeling
alongside. Early C17 alabaster and marble wall monument to Sir Edward
Ayscough, erected by his son Sir Francis: inscribed tablet in pilastered
surround with strapwork supports, inscribed frieze and cornice, carrying a
bust with both arms, the head resting on one hand, the other holding a baton
(missing at time of resurvey), in a round-arched niche with rosette ornament
to soffit and relief panel to rear with trophies, beneath inscribed frieze
and moulded cornice supporting oval relief tablet with arms and crest.
Octagonal font with plain moulded bowl and base on square pedestal, reset in
1872. Natte's drawings show oculi to the tower. The plinth probably
incorporates ashlar from the previous church which collapsed in 1746.
Drawings by C Nattes, 1796, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library;
N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 377,
plate 44.
Listing NGR: TA1950611837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164433
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1978), 377
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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