CHURCH OF ST GILES

CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1379408
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1951
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1379408
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1951
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, 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 ST GILES, CHURCH LANE

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

District:: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 26738 06363

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2606SE CHURCH LANE, Scartho 699-1/40/115 (East side) 06/06/51 Church of St Giles

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Parish church. C11 Saxo-Norman tower with inserted C13 south door; C13 south nave arcade; tower parapet of 1656. Roof and east wall of chancel from 1859 restorations. 1916 roof and window repairs following Zeppelin raid. 1921 restorations to tower. Major additions and alterations of 1955-8 by TJ Rushton include new north nave arcade and aisle, chancel with north chapel and vestry. MATERIALS: lower section of tower in roughly coursed cobbles and chalk, limestone and ironstone rubble, with dressings and upper stage of squared limestone. Aisle and early section of nave of ironstone and limestone ashlar and rubble. Chancel of banded ironstone ashlar with coursed dressed limestone rubble. Slate roofs with ridge tiles. PLAN: 2-bay aisled nave with west tower and 2-bay chancel with north chapel and vestry adjoining. EXTERIOR: chancel has chamfered plinth, pair of lancets to south; pointed 2-light east window with C13-style tracery, filleted mullions, hoodmould with carved stops. North chapel: segmental-headed 2-light east window and plain mullioned square-headed north window. Vestry: has square-headed mullioned windows and segmental-arched door. North nave aisle: continuous with north chapel, has restored pointed 2-light north windows with Curvilinear tracery; west end with segmental-arched door and basket-arched 2-light plain traceried window. South aisle: has restored pointed 3-light south windows with Perpendicular tracery; west end with blocked pointed door with hoodmould, and, to its left, a straight joint to a section adjoining the tower containing a corbel. 2-stage tower: plain plinth, side alternate quoins. C11 round-headed west door with quoins, chamfered imposts and restored chamfered hoodmould; C20 blocking with inserted single-light round-headed window. Above, a round-headed slit-light. South side has an inserted pointed C13 doorway of 2 orders beneath a hoodmould with weathered headstops, the outer order with nook-shafts and filleted arch, the inner order chamfered. Above this, a blocked pointed C13 arch, apparently C13 but incorporating chamfered ironstone imposts and voussoirs from an C11-style round arch. Above, an C11

keyhole window with a monolithic head, cut by a drip course to a former addition south of the tower. Clockface above. String course. Stepped-in top stage with belfry openings of twin round arches with monolithic heads, chamfered imposts and mid-wall shafts with ornate carved capitals with volutes and leaves (similar to Sompting, Essex). Plain ironstone parapet. INTERIOR: chancel with C19 pointed double-chamfered chancel arch with hoodmould and carved stops, the inner order on corbelled wall shafts; C19 east window flanked by narrow blind arches in moulded surrounds with nook-shafts. Nave: south arcade of double-chamfered arches with quatrefoil pier and corbelled responds with carved head corbel to east, knotted cable to west. C20 north chancel and nave arcade of pointed double-chamfered arches dying into chamfered pier and responds. Tall C11 tower arch of 2 plain orders with chamfered base and imposts; keyhole window above. C20 gallery with balustrade of twisted balusters, possibly C18 reused. Tower has a small stoup on north side; another inscribed 1343 is reset below west window, brought from grounds of Scartho Hall. East window stained glass by AK Nicholson of Westminster. Norman tub font with cable-moulded rim on a 1921 shafted base. FITTINGS: include C19 and C20 wooden pews, pulpit, altar rails etc. MONUMENTS: include a wall tablet to Elizabeth Howe of 1851 with carved shield. Glass case containing C15 Nottingham alabaster figure carvings found at Scartho in 1928, originally part of a reredos, with traces of paint and gilt. The figures represent the Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration, Crucifixion, Assumption, St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 346; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.55; Grimsby Planning Department: Scartho Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.55).

Listing NGR: TA2673806363

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 346

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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.