Description

SE 9222-9322 WINTERINGHAM MEGGITT LANE
(west side)

Church of All Saints
8/36
6.11.67
GV I

Church. C11-12 tower and nave, C12-13 nave arcades, C13 chancel, transept
and aisles, C14 top stage to tower. Restorations 1849-51 included
rebuilding north aisle and south transept, re-roofing, re-flooring, new
porch and vestry, font and fittings. Tower of limestone and gritstone
ashlar; remainder of squared limestone, gritstone and coursed limestone
rubble with ashlar dressings. Timber porch. Slate roof. West tower, 4-bay
aisled nave with 2-bay south transept and south porch, 2-bay chancel with
organ chamber adjoining north side. 2-stage tower with C14 diagonal
buttresses. Tall first stage incorporates re-used Roman gritstone blocks,
some on north side moulded; 3-light C14 pointed west window with C19
Perpendicular tracery, stair lighting slits in south-west corner. Plain
string course. Second stage has pointed 2-light belfry openings with
Perpendicular tracery, moulded stringcourse and embattled parapet with
crocketed angle pinnacles. Aisles have chamfered plinth, cillbands,
buttresses to north; single and twin lancets. South transept: quoins,
chamfered plinth, cillband, single buttress; 2 lancets to east side with a
small statue in a C14 cinquefoiled niche above, pointed 3-light south window
with C19 Geometrical tracery and pierced quatrefoil above, fragments of
decorated medieval gravestones in south wall. Chancel: quoins, cillband,
buttresses on south side, lancets to north and south sides; pointed
chamfered priest's doorway and door with decorative hinges, triple east
lancets with C19 dripmoulds and C19 pierced quatrefoil above. South porch
has ashlar plinth, pointed outer door with trefoiled spandrels, sidelights
and ornate bargeboard. C19 pointed moulded inner door. Interior. Tall
pointed triple-chamfered tower arch with plain moulded capitals and
chamfered jambs. South arcade has slender cylindrical piers with plain
moulded bases, scalloped capitals and octagonal abaci with billet moulding;
round arches of 2 orders with chevron and lozenge mouldings and billeted
dripmould. North arcade has broad cylindrical piers, scalloped capitals and
square abaci with pellet moulding; C12 arches of 2 orders with pellet and
lozenge mouldings, originally round-headed, probably re-set as pointed in
C13. Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on moulded corbels with carved
head at apex. Chancel: cillband, double trefoiled piscina divided by a
chamfered shaft with moulded base and capital; on north side a blank pointed
chamfered opening and a low chamfered segmental-arched niche with a fine C13
knight effigy, said to be that of Sir William Marmion, d.1276. Marble wall
tablet with draped urn to James Heaton, 1833, in north aisle. N. Pevsner
and J. Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 424. Drawing
by C Nattes, 1794, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.

Listing NGR: SE9248522463

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537932

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)