Description

SK 85 NW WINTHORPE GAINSBOROUGH ROAD (east side)

1/59 Church of All Saints

G.V. II

Parish Church. 1886-8 by S. G. Parry. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Tiled
roof, stone coped gables with kneelers to nave and chancel and crosses.
Buttressed and set on a plinth. North west tower and spire with north porch,
nave, north aisle, north organ chamber and vestry, chancel. The angle buttressed
tower of base and 4 stages has on the ground floor west 2 lancet windows, to the
north is the porch entrance and to the ground floor east are 2 lancet windows.
To all 4 sides on the first floor is a lancet window flanked by single blind
lancets. The bell chamber has four 2-light arched windows with hood moulds and
label stops. The broached spire has 2 sets of lucarnes and ashlar crocketed
pinnacle. The porch, contained within the tower, has an arched entrance with
ashlar hood mould and label stops and gable over surmounted by an ashlar cross.
The north aisle has 5 single light arched windows with ashlar hood moulds
extending to a string course. The gable of the organ chamber has a double lancet
window with quatrefoil over and ashlar hood mould and label stops. The gabled
vestry has an arched doorway with ashlar hood mould and label stop to the east.
There is a centre quatrefoil with ashlar hoodmould and label stops. The east
wall of the vestry has a square headed 4 light stone mullion window. The east end
has a triple lancet window, the centre lancet being taller, with ashlar hood mould
and label stops. Above is a pair of very small lancets. The south wall of the
chancel has 3 single lancet windows with trefoil and ashlar hood mould and label stops.
The eastern most one has at its base an ashlar block with a cross carved in relief.
The south nave has three 2-light windows with cinquefoil. The hood moulds over
these extend to a string course. The west end has a projecting apsidal baptistry
with 3 lancet windows and string course over. The interior porch doorway is
arched with ashlar hood mould and label stops over. Interior: exposed red brick
with ashlar dressings. The nave and north aisle are separated by an arcade of
3 bays, having 2 circular stone polychromatic piers. There are arches over to
the baptistry, from the north aisle to the organ chamber and from the nave to the
chancel. All are brick with ashlar dressings. From chancel to organ chamber is
a double ashlar arch with quatrefoil. The furnishings are contemporary, notably
the encaustic tiling to the floor of the chancel and baptistry, the moulded reredos,
pulpit and font, the pews and stalls, various stained glass windows.

Listing NGR: SK8120656360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints' Church, Winthorpe at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15179417

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