Church of St Benedict
CHURCH OF ST BENEDICT, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359683
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Benedict
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BENEDICT, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359683
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Benedict
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BENEDICT, CHURCH 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 BENEDICT, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Candlesby with Gunby
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 45574 67341
Details
TF 46 NE CANDELSBY CHURCH STREET (south side)
5/10 Church of St. Benedict 3.2.67 II
Parish church. 1838, by E. D. Rainey of Spilsby. Yellow/orange brick in Flemish bond, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Western tower, nave, chancel, vestry. 2 stage tower with plinth, string bands, plain parapet, angle pinnacles. Planked west door in chamfered pointed ashlar surround with moulded hood. To the belfry stage narrow pointed louvred lights. On the north side a rectangular slit window. Side walls of the nave have plinth, and 3 single pointed lights with hood moulds. The chancel has a blocked priest's door and in the east end a triple lancet. On the south side of the tower an added vestry. Interior retains a single chamfered tower doorway with above a blank pointed niche. Chancel arch is moulded. and pointed in ashlar, dying to the reveals. Polychromatic tiles throughout. Deal pews, octagonal open pulpit, fluted Doric pillars and moulded cornice. Plain octagonal font.
Listing NGR: TF4557467341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 196011
- 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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