CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS

CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359365
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/05651/15
Rights:: © Mr Terence G. Onyon. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359365
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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 THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: North Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Scopwick
National Grid Reference:: TF 08501 57780

Details

SCOPWICK CHURCH LANE KIRKBY GREEN TF 05 NE (east side) 5/35 Church of the Holy Cross

- II

Parish church. 1848. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roof, with coped gables and kneelers. Nave and chancel under a single roof, with western porch and bellcote. Chamfered plinth, cill band and eaves band. Buttresses with set-offs. Single storey 5 bays. West front has gabled porch with diagonal buttresses. Pointed arched doorway in double arched surround, with plain chamfered inner arch, and moulded chamfered outer arch, supported on shafts and plain capitals with hood mould and label stops. Above a single trefoil window in a trilobed surround. Surmounted on the gable is a single gabled bellcote. The north and south walls are identical with 5 pointed lancet windows in chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds and label stops. The east front, reputedly an accurate copy of its medieval predecessor, has a pair of pointed lancets in chamfered inner surrounds, with deeply moulded outer arches supported on shafts with moulded capitals. The central pair of shafts are ringed. Above is a mandala-shaped window in a plain chamfered suround. Interior.: Plain chamfered chancel arch with octagonal responds. A twin arched piscina, with a reused C12 octagonal shaft with plain capital. Western gallery containing organ, and a wall tablet to Richard T Welby 1856. C19 wooden pews, pulpit and roofs. Octagonal font.

Listing NGR: TF0850157780

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 358306
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.