Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1359705
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1359705
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, 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.
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bolingbroke
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 34951 65136
Details
BOLINGBROKE MAIN STREET TF 36 NW (south side) 1/30 Church of St. Peter 3.2.67 and St. Paul G.V. II*
Parish church. c.1360, possibly for John of Gaunt. Partly destroyed in the Civil War, restored 1866 by James Fowler of Louth, and again in 1889. Squared greenstone rubble, limestone ashlar, Westmorland slate roofs. Nave, north aisle, north western tower. The present nave was the south aisle of the Cl4 church. West end of nave has stepped corner buttresses and a large 4 light C14 window with flowing tracery. Above in the gable, a quatrefoil. 3 stage tower with stepped corner buttresses, plinth, 3 moulded string courses, embattled parapet, 4 corner and 4 centre pinnacles, with panelled sides and crockets. 2 light bell openings with cusped ogee heads. Continuously moulded doorway with above a 4 light C15 window with brattishing and panel tracery. Large animal head label stops. Above an ogee headed niche. C19 north aisle of 3 two light rectangular headed windows with ogee heads to the lights, pointed vestry doorway and tall rectangular chimney. At the east end a 3 light window in C14 style. East end of the nave has a large 5 light window with fine flowing tracery and deeply moulded head. South side has 3 three light windows with cusped heads to the lights and flowing tracery. Gabled C19 porch with moulded pointed outer doorway with demi shafts. C14 inner doorway with moulded pointed head, demi shafts with foliate capitals. To the east side a holy water stoup on octagonal pillar with cusped and crocketed canopy. Above the door a large blank quatrefoil and 2 figured corbels. Interior. C14 4 bay nave arcade, now giving access to the new north aisle, with tall continuously moulded pointed arches, and filleted orders with moulded bases. Small C19 pointed doorway into the tower. A large grotesque head is built into the wall. In the tower, the remains of a fireplace with 4 centred head, and above an inscribed tablet with stone surround, regarding a charity given by John Aldred, Rector, in 1653. At the east end of the nave, 2 blank small pointed openings flank the window. On the south wall an ornate C14 sedilia with crocketed pinnacles, and nodding ogee canopy. Beyond an ogee headed piscina. A further plainer piscina half way down the south wall, and a small statue bracket. Fittings all C19 apart from the C14 font which is octagonal, with elaborate stem with clustered chamfered shafts with pyramidal stepped bases.
Listing NGR: TF3495165136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 196125
- 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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