Church of the Holy Cross
CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359365
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359365
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, 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 THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- North Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Scopwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 08501 57780
Details
SCOPWICK CHURCH LANE KIRKBY GREEN TF 05 NE (east side) 5/35 Church of the Holy Cross
- II
Parish church. 1848. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roof, with coped gables and kneelers. Nave and chancel under a single roof, with western porch and bellcote. Chamfered plinth, cill band and eaves band. Buttresses with set-offs. Single storey 5 bays. West front has gabled porch with diagonal buttresses. Pointed arched doorway in double arched surround, with plain chamfered inner arch, and moulded chamfered outer arch, supported on shafts and plain capitals with hood mould and label stops. Above a single trefoil window in a trilobed surround. Surmounted on the gable is a single gabled bellcote. The north and south walls are identical with 5 pointed lancet windows in chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds and label stops. The east front, reputedly an accurate copy of its medieval predecessor, has a pair of pointed lancets in chamfered inner surrounds, with deeply moulded outer arches supported on shafts with moulded capitals. The central pair of shafts are ringed. Above is a mandala-shaped window in a plain chamfered suround. Interior.: Plain chamfered chancel arch with octagonal responds. A twin arched piscina, with a reused C12 octagonal shaft with plain capital. Western gallery containing organ, and a wall tablet to Richard T Welby 1856. C19 wooden pews, pulpit and roofs. Octagonal font.
Listing NGR: TF0850157780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358306
- 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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