Church of St Giles

Details

LINCOLN

SK97SE LAMB GARDENS
1941-1/2/189 (West side)
08/10/53 Church of St Giles

II

Church. Designed 1720 by William Smith of Warwick as the
Church of St Peter at Arches, Lincoln. Demolished 1930.
Re-erected and extended 1936 by William Watkins of Lincoln, on
present site. C20 brick, with C18 ashlar dressings and copper
roofs. Classical style.
PLAN: tower, nave with aisles, chancel with apse, vestry.
EXTERIOR: moulded plinth and cornice, coped parapet with
corner pedestals, rusticated brick quoins. Most windows have
round heads and moulded architraves with keystones.
Tower, 4 stages, has clasping pilasters, string courses, eaves
cornice, balustrade and urn finials topped with wind vanes. To
east, a doorcase with Doric pilasters, stepped cornice, round
head with keystone, and C20 doors. Above it, a lamp bracket.
To north and south, a small double window with round heads and
keystones. Second stage has a window to east. Third stage has
a round opening with keystones to west, and a clock on the
other sides. Bell stage has a louvred opening on each side
similar to the windows.
South aisle has 4 windows and to east, a round headed doorway
with a round window above it, both with keystones. West end
has an apse with parapet.
North aisle has to left a door with a round window above it,
and to right, 3 windows. Beyond and above, a round window.
Each aisle has a window in the east end, and north aisle has a
window in the west end.
Vestry, to north, single storey, has a slate roof and a round
headed doorway flanked by single windows.
INTERIOR has 5-bay arcades with Doric piers and moulded round
arches with keystones. Plaster ceilings with moulded cornices
throughout. East end has a full width bow fronted wooden
gallery with a C18 dogleg stair at each end, with vase and
stem balusters. On the gallery, a restored C18 organ and case.
Chancel and aisles have panelled dadoes. South aisle chapel
and vestry doorways have reset fragments of C12 stonework.
North aisle has, to west, a C19 traceried wooden screen and a
stained glass window with the arms of the Diocese. North side
has 2 late C19 windows.
Chancel has a plain aumbry and piscina, 2 niches, C18
wrought-iron altar rail and 2 mid C19 stained glass windows.
FITTINGS include a square baluster shaped alabaster font, C18,


with swagged bowl and Latin inscription. C20 bracketed wooden
cover. Wrought-iron skeleton pulpit on wooden foot, C19. Plain
benches, some with poppyheads. Oak eagle lectern. No
memorials.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 497).

Listing NGR: SK9887572842

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 497

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