Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063601
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063601
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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 NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swaby
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 38630 77100
Details
SWABY CHURCH LANE TF 37 NE (east side) 1/37 Church of St. Nicholas 9.3.67 II
Parish church. 1828, altered C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, painted ashlar dressings, slate roof with overhanging eaves. Nave plus western bellcote, facetted chancel, west porch. The gabled porch has plinth and pointed and stepped outer arch surrounded by a sandstone cross, angle pilasters and blank stepped side arches. The west end of the nave has pilaster buttresses and square bellcote with roundel beneath and louvred chamfered bell openings to east and west. Angle pilasters rise from sandstone corbels, the pyramidal roof has emaciate sandstone battlements. Side walls of the nave have advanced window bays. The 2 windows are of 2 lights with wooden tracery, stepped surrounds and plain bracketed cills. In the east end of the nave is a roundel. The lower facetted chancel, has a plain east window matching the rest. To either side of the chancel are lower C20 additions. Interior. Plastered and lined to resemble ashlar. The west door has a moulded and painted surround and double panelled doors. Above are blank quatrefoils in circles. The chancel arch matches with lower blank arches to either side. The chancel has blank pointed openings on side walls. Furnishings are all C19.
Listing NGR: TF3863077100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 196103
- 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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