Church of St Mary Le Wigford
CHURCH OF ST MARY LE WIGFORD, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388597
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Le Wigford
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY LE WIGFORD, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388597
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Le Wigford
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY LE WIGFORD, HIGH 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 MARY LE WIGFORD, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 97495 70949
Details
LINCOLN
SK9770NW HIGH STREET
1941-1/14/174 (East side)
08/10/53 Church of St Mary le Wigford
GV I
Church. C11, C12, C13. South aisle 1877 by Leach of Cambridge.
Restored 1872 by R C Clarke of Nottingham. Tower restored by
Watkins & Son, 1908. Additions and alterations 1975.
Dressed stone and coursed rubble, with ashlar dressings and
slate roofs. Nave and aisles have coped gables.
PLAN: west tower, nave and chancel under continuous roof,
aisles, north chapel, vestry.
EXTERIOR: west tower, C11, 2 stages, has quoins, string course
and eaves band, and crenellated parapet. To west, restored
doorway, now a window, with imposts and checkered hoodmould.
To its right, a reset stone with Roman and Anglo-Saxon
inscriptions. Above it, 2 round headed windows and above them,
a clock. Recessed bell stage has round headed twin openings
with mid wall shafts and various C11 capitals.
Nave has at the west end small buttresses flanking the tower.
East end has 3 buttresses, moulded plinth and sill band, and 2
single lancets with hoodmoulds and stops. Above them, a
pointed quatrefoil with moulded surround.
North aisle and chapel, C13, 4 bays, has dentilled eaves and
sill band to north-east, and a C19 side wall stack. 4
buttresses, those to the west being larger. South side has, to
east, 2 flat headed Perpendicular 3-light windows. To their
right, 2 similar windows, C19 and C14. Renewed doorway with
C20 leaded hood. East and west ends have Decorated 3-light
windows with hoodmoulds. East end has a diagonal buttress.
South aisle, 4 bays, has buttresses and stepped sill band.
Reset C13 moulded south door with double shafts. To its right,
2 altered 3-light windows with intersecting tracery. At the
east end, a similar window. To south, C20 vestry with a reset
C13 roll moulded arch with shafts and scallop capitals, and 2
interlace panels. These are said to be from the churches of St
Benedict and St Mark.
INTERIOR has C19 panelled barrel vaulted roofs throughout.
Chamfered tower arch has a C20 glazed screen. Above it, a
round headed doorway.
North arcade, C13, 3 bays, has concave sided octagonal piers
with 4 ringed shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. Double chamfered
arches with hoodmoulds and stops.
South arcade, C19, has plain octagonal piers and capitals.
Chancel has double chamfered arch with hoodmould and keeled
responds with stiff-leaf capitals. Screen wall with
wrought-iron railing and gate. North side has a 2 bay arcade
with cruciform central pier with detached shafts, keeled
responds, double chamfered arches with hoodmoulds, and C19
traceried iron screen. Arcaded east end has ringed shafts and
moulded sill band. Stained glass windows, 1877, by Clayton &
Bell. South side has a gabled piscina and aumbry, tomb recess
containing a seat, and organ opening.
North aisle has a C13 doorway with keeled roll moulding and
shafts. Roll moulded window surrounds with filleted shafts.
Reset stained glass north-east window, mid C19. North chapel
has an early C14 keel moulded tomb recess with an effigy. East
window has a keel moulded surround and stained glass, 1865. To
its left, and ogee headed aumbry.
South aisle has a blocked double chamfered arch to east, with
a C20 screen and door.
FITTINGS include a C15 buttressed octagonal font, 2 brass
lecterns, traceried stalls and desks, all C19. Brass
chandelier c1720.
MEMORIALS include and alabaster chest tomb, 1618, possibly by
Maximilian Colt to Sir Thomas Grantham, with 2 effigies and
shields in quatrefoils. Reset late C16 floor slab. Two late
C18 and 2 mid C19 tablets.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 497-498).
Listing NGR: SK9749570949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486042
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 497-498
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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