Description

SE 92 SW WEST HALTON COLEBY ROAD (east side)

2/17 Church of St Etheldreda

6.11.67 II* GV

Church. Medieval origins, rebuilt 1698 using medieval masonry and details, including C13-14 traceried windows. Porch, vestry and nave gallery added 1837; restored and chancel rebuilt 1876-7. West tower, 3-bay nave with north vestry and south porch, 2-bay chancel. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings. Lead roofs to nave and chancel; slate roofs to porch and vestry. Chamfered plinth, quoins. 2-stage tower: stepped diagonal buttresses, round-headed west window with raised imposts and keystone, moulded string course, round-headed 2-light belfry openings with chamfered jambs and Y-tracery, gargoyles to north and south, embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles. Nave: 3 pointed 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery and one pointed 3-light north window with re-set intersecting tracery. Porch has pointed chamfered outer arch, inner slightly pointed chamfered arch with moulded imposts and raised keystone. Vestry has round-headed west window with wooden Y-tracery. Chancel: stepped buttresses with moulded bases, moulded cill band, windows similar to nave, (C19 tracery to east window), with a fine series of carved headstops; coped gable and shaped kneelers. Interior: round-headed tower door with raised imposts; nave gallery at west end with painted Gothic-style panelled front supported on pair of slender cast iron columns with foliate capitals; pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on shafted responds with plain moulded capitals. Chancel has moulded cill band, carved headstops to windows and carved roof corbels. Memorials: gravestone of 1666 to J. Merriweather, Rector, in chancel floor; 1782 marble wall tablet with draped urn to John flail and wife Hannah. Moulded octagonal pulpit base and steps. C17 font in tower, made from medieval column and base. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshsire, 1978,"419; Drawing by C Nattes, 1794, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.

Listing NGR: SE9051220838

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