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WISBECH LYNN ROAD
TF 41 SE TF 4609
(South Side)
2/78 6/78 CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE
GV II

Church, built in 1869 as part of the Park development scheme.
Architect, Mr. Bassett-Smith. Yellow gault brick with red brick
banding and decoration and limestone dressings. Slate roof with
red patterned ridge tiles. Gothic style. Buttressed bays to
single storey chancel and aisles to north and south of nave with
clerestorey. Windows with trefoiled lights grouped in pairs, or
threes, with stone cills. Stone copings to gable parapets with
'kneelers'. Cross finial to west and bell turret to east of
nave. Moulded brick cornices. Entrance in north aisle; west
gable entrance with two-centred, stone-coped arch. Interior
intact with contemporary and later memorial stained glass.
VCH Cambs, p.250.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.185, p.256, 1898.
P.H. Peckover, photographic collection, p.162, 1931.
Wisbech Society Annual Report, 1973.

Listing NGR: TF4638609997