Description

SE 9218-9318 WINTERTON CHURCH SIDE (north side) 9/48 Church of All Saints 6.11.67

GV I Church. Mid Cll tower and nave, early-mid C13 nave aisles, transepts and upper stage to tower, later C13 chancel, C14 south door and windows to aisles and transepts. Mid C17 restorations, C18 north porch. C19 vestry. Restorations 1903-4 by C. Hodgeson Fowler included addition of nave clerestory and tower parapet, rebuilding chancel gable and re-roofing and re-flooring throughout. Engaged west tower flanked by aisles, 3-bay aisled nave with north and south porches, 2-bay north and south transepts, 3-bay chancel with 2-bay vestry adjoining north side. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. 4-stage tower: plinth, quoins and chamfered string courses to first 3 stages. Tall first stage has west door with low arched lintel and later lancet above. Stepped-in second stage has twin round-headed belfry openings with cylindrical mid-wall shafts and cushion capitals. Circular sound-holes to 3rd stage, obscured on south by C19 clockface. 4th stage has tall twin pointed belfry openings with nook shafts and central chamfered shaft. C20 corbel table, spouts and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. West ends of aisles flanking tower have chamfered plinth, buttresses, moulded cillband and pointed 3-light windows with intersecting tracery. South aisle: chamfered plinth, buttresses, square-headed windows of 2 and 3 trefoiled lights, North aisle: blocked square opening, C18 lancet, 3-light pointed window with intersecting tracery. Transepts: plinth, quoins, moulded cillband; 2 east lancets, those to north and south with hoodmoulds; 4-light north and south windows with Curvilinear tracery and hoodmoulds. Chancel: chamfered plinth, angle and mid buttresses; 2 lancets to north and south, plate-traceried south window with 2-lights and circle above, pointed chamfered priest's door, all with hoodmoulds and carved stops; C20 pointed 3-light east window and pinnacled gable. Vestry has lancets and pointed north door with oval light above. North porch has blocked pointed door, pedimented gable and pointed interior vault. South porch: pointed outer arch with inner shafted order, flanked by pair of trefoiled niches with a third in C20 rebuilt gable above. Pointed inner door of 2 shafted orders with roll-moulded arch: ogee-headed niche above with ornate carved base and crocketed canopy flanked by pinnacled buttresses. Original door with ornate strap hinges. Interior. Narrow round-headed windows to north and south sides of tower; round-headed tower arch with a narrow flat-headed doorway above. Nave arcades of double- chamfered pointed arches with hoodmoulds and carved headstops on octagonal piers with moulded bases, finely-carved foliate capitals (one C19) and bold mid-shaft collars, keeled to north, dog-tooth moulded to south. Keeled and triple-shafted west responds; broad filleted responds to east, with a plain moulded capital to south and a re-used Romanesque capital to north with animal carving. South transept: dog-tooth hoodmould to one lancet; rectangular aumbry and pointed chamfered piscina. Similar piscina to north transept. Pointed chamfered chancel arch of 3 orders on filleted responds; plain moulded capital to north, foliate capital to south. Restored piscina to chancel. Mutilated brass in chancel floor to John Rudd and two wives, of 1504; carved stone tablet on south wall to Peter Gering 1590, with arms and full achievement. Late C18-early C19 marble wall tablets in chancel and south aisle. Present font C19; earlier font in south transept has octagonal bowl on re-used foliate capital with nailhead moulding to abacus. N. Pevsner and J. Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 424-5; H. & J. Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, Volume 2, 1965, 674-5. Drawing by C Nattes, 1794, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.

Listing NGR: SE9282718589

External Links

• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Church of All Saints official website
• Wikidata Q17537926

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)