CHURCH OF ST HUGH AND ATTACHED VESTRY

CHURCH OF ST HUGH AND ATTACHED VESTRY, MONKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388693
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST HUGH AND ATTACHED VESTRY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST HUGH AND ATTACHED VESTRY, MONKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388693
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST HUGH AND ATTACHED VESTRY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST HUGH AND ATTACHED VESTRY, MONKS ROAD

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST HUGH AND ATTACHED VESTRY, MONKS ROAD

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 97840 71388

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771SE MONKS ROAD 1941-1/12/268 (South side) 08/07/91 Church of St Hugh and attached vestry

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1893. By Albert Vicars. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Early English style. Mainly pointed arched windows. PLAN: north-west tower with spire, nave with aisles, clerestory and double side chapels, canted apsidal east end, west porch, attached vestry to north. EXTERIOR: north-west tower has double chamfered plinth, moulded string courses and arcaded corbel table. Angle buttresses up to the second stage, becoming octagonal turrets topped with pinnacles above. Half-round conical roofed stair turret to east. West side has a 2-light window with hoodmould and above it, an empty niche. North side has a similar window, with 2 single lancets above it. Second stage has a quatrefoil light to north and west. Bell stage has on each side paired louvred openings with shafts. Setback octagonal spire with cross. Nave, 6 bays, has plain pilasters, coped gable with cross, and south-west angle buttress topped with an arcaded square pinnacle. West end has a 5-light window with tracery, and above it, a blind arcade. Clerestory has on each side, 2 lancets in each bay. North aisle has 3 single lancets and an off-centre lean-to side chapel. South aisle has to left 2 small buttresses. To their right, 2 lancets, and a lean-to projection with 3 round windows. To right again, a porch with coped gable and a canted side chapel with 2 lancets. Major side chapels, to east, have coped gables and square headed windows, 2 to west, single to east. Canted apse has angle buttresses and 3 single lancets with trefoil heads. West porch has coped gable with cross and canopied niche containing a figure of St Hugh. Single angle buttress. 2 pointed arched moulded doorways with shafts and relief scenes in the tympana. INTERIOR: nave has 5-bay arcades with round piers, double chamfered arches with hoodmoulds, and barrel vaulted wooden roof with round wall shafts on corbels. West end has 2 doors flanked by single windows, and stained glass memorial window, 1921.

Aisles have lean-to roofs with wall shafts, and a doorway at each end, those to east with a pointed opening above containing organ pipes. Both have stained glass windows, C19 and C20. North aisle has an off-centre segmental pointed opening to a side chapel, with ogee crested canopied gradine. To its left, 3 doorways. South aisle has a similar chapel with canopied and crested gradine, and to its right, single and double doors to confessionals. Side chapels have stained glass windows. East end has double chamfered arch with round responds on foliage corbels. Below them, figures on brackets. Apse has moulded band and mosaic dado. In each side, a double chamfered archway with wooden screen to north and organ to south. Arch braced tie beam roof with central octagonal post. Elaborate Decorated style crested reredos with crocketed canopies and spires. FITTINGS include panelled stalls, desks and benches, and arcaded octagonal stone pulpit, all C19. Memorials include a wreathed brass tablet, 1908. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 500-501).

Listing NGR: SK9784071388

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Legacy System number:: 486154
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 500-501

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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.