Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE EASTGATE
1941-1/9/103 (North side)
02/10/69 Church of St Peter in Eastgate and
attached boundary wall
GV II
Church. 1870. By Sir Arthur Blomfield. Chancel decoration
1884, by Bodley. South aisle 1914, by Temple Moore, paid for
by Alfred Shuttleworth. Coursed squared stone and rockfaced
ashlar, with Westmorland slate roofs. Early English and early
Decorated styles.
PLAN: nave with western bellcote, aisles, sacristy and vestry,
chancel, west porch.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded sill band, coped gables
with crosses. Single round stone stack to nave.
Nave west end has angle and central buttresses. Two 2-light
windows with plate tracery and above, 2 round headed niches
with a circle between them. Steep gabled single bellcote with
billeted impost band. Single lancet to south-west.
North aisle with buttresses, 4 bays, has 2 lancets in each
bay.
South aisle, gabled, 7 bays, has buttresses. To left, a
moulded doorway and to right, six 3-light Decorated windows,
all with hoodmoulds. East end has a 5-light traceried window
with ogee hoodmould. West end has central buttress flanked by
a stepped 3-light lancet on each side. Above, a 2-light window
with plate tracery, flanked by single lancets.
Hipped sacristy has 4 lancets to north.
Vestry has parapet and a 2-light window to east and door to
north.
Chancel, 4 bays, has coved eaves. To south, a central buttress
and 3 single lancets with linked impost band. To the right, a
3-light flat headed window. East end has angle buttresses and
a 3-light window with plate tracery and hoodmould.
West porch has a four-centred arched doorway with a coped
gable containing a niche. On either side, single buttresses
with pilasters, the left one with a pinnacle. Inside, a
crested niche in each corner and an arch braced common rafter
roof.
INTERIOR: nave has a 4 bay north arcade with round piers and
double chamfered arches. South arcade has quatrefoil piers
with nook shafts, double hollow chamfered arches and
hoodmoulds. Easternmost bay has an elaborate Perpendicular
style screen and canopy defining the choir. Painted barrel
vaulted wooden roof. Two C19 stained glass windows at the west
end. South-west window 1927. Choir has a stencil decorated
double purlin scissor braced roof.
North aisle has 6 stained glass windows to east, late C19 and
early C20, and chamfered eastern arch with wooden screen. Arch
braced double purlin roof with wall shafts.
South aisle has 6 stained glass windows, late C19 and early
C20. Between each pair, a round shaft. East pier has an ogee
niche. South-east corner has a cusped piscina. Eastern bay has
a Perpendicular style screen defining the war memorial chapel,
with memorial east windows c1920. Arch braced roof with
strutted crown posts.
Chancel has stencil decorated double chamfered arch with round
shafts on corbels. Above, a plain lancet. Continuous sill
band. North side has to left a traceried wrought-iron organ
case with show pipes, and to right an aumbry with conical
bracket. East end has a mosaic reredos and a stained glass
window, 1875, by Ward & Hughes. Arch braced roof on shield
corbels, with panels and bosses, and elaborate painted and
gilt decoration.
FITTINGS include traceried stalls and desks, plain benches,
half-round traceried oak pulpit and round font on clustered
stem, all C19. Wooden font, 1970.
MEMORIALS include 8 brasses, mid C19 to mid C20.
Outside, attached stone boundary wall to street, with
chamfered coping, 2 wrought-iron gates, and 8 piers. Plainer
wall, to east, has half-round stone coping. Approx. 70m x 50m
long.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 500).
Listing NGR: SK9797871954
