Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359663
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359663
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, 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 HELEN, 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:
- Little Cawthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 35698 83746
Details
LITTLE CAWTHORPE CHURCH LANE TF 38 SE (east side)
5/23 Church of 9.3.67 St. Helen
G.V. II
Parish church. 1860 by R J Withers. Red brick with burnt header decoration, limestone ashlar dressing, some green sandstone rubble blocks and some marble. Slate roofs with decorative red ridge tiles; overhanging eaves; wrought iron finials; tall vestry chimney to north and square slate hung bellcote towards west end with narrow wooden bell stage with star shaped openings and broached spirelet with weathervane. Nave with bellcote and south porch, chancel with north vestry. Plinth with bands of sandstone and burnt headers. Plain bands of headers and broader, more ornate bands of headers run round church. West end with large pointed window with 2 pointed ashlar dressed lights with cusping and quatrefoil. North side of nave with a pair of cusped ashlar dressed lancets to east. Lean-to vestry beyond with north doorway with short straight head flanked by broad re-entrant curves, and plank door. Small pointed window to right with ashlar dressed cusping. East end of vestry with a pointed window with 2 pointed, ashlar dressed lights and plate quatrefoil. Large pointed east window with 3 pointed lights and complex ashlar tracery. Foundation stone, dated 1860, below. South side of chancel with single pointed window with 2 ashlar dressed, cusped lights with cusped oculus above. South side of nave with pair of ashlar dressed lancets with cusping. Gabled porch to west with pointed doorway with 2 low wooden gates. Inner pointed doorway with plank doors. All the windows and doors have pointed heads articulated by burnt header decoration. Church interior with tall, broad chancel arch with pointed head of 2 orders with ashlar decoration with red diamond shaped tiles inset. Responds with single, free standing marble shafts with ornate capitals and shaft rings. 3 sharply pointed openings in north wall of chancel, that to the east reaching to the floor and giving access to vestry. Plain, broad sedilia in south wall with segmental head. Ashlar string course runs round east end. Altar with ornate reredos of encaustic tiles. East window with nook shafts, ornate capitals and shaft rings. C19 altar rail, choir stalls, pews, octagonal font, polygonal pulpit and wagon roofs. Monument under west window to Eysimachus Parker, died 1860, with flanking squat marble shafts with ornate capitals and shaft rings, deepset bands of ball flower, dentillations and flower heads.
Listing NGR: TF3569883746
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195907
- 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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