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Church of the Holy Cross

A Grade II Listed Building in Scopwick, Lincolnshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1062 / 53°6'22"N

Longitude: -0.3807 / 0°22'50"W

OS Eastings: 508501

OS Northings: 357780

OS Grid: TF085577

Mapcode National: GBR GQT.6KY

Mapcode Global: WHGJV.36Z2

Plus Code: 9C5X4J49+FP

Entry Name: Church of the Holy Cross

Listing Date: 12 October 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1359365

English Heritage Legacy ID: 358306

ID on this website: 101359365

Location: Holy Cross Church, Kirkby Green, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, LN4

County: Lincolnshire

District: North Kesteven

Civil Parish: Scopwick

Traditional County: Lincolnshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire

Church of England Parish: Kirkby Green Holy Cross

Church of England Diocese: Lincoln

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Description


SCOPWICK CHURCH LANE KIRKBY GREEN
TF 05 NE (east side)

5/35 Church of the Holy Cross

- II

Parish church. 1848. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings.
Slate roof, with coped gables and kneelers. Nave and chancel under a single roof,
with western porch and bellcote. Chamfered plinth, cill band and eaves band.
Buttresses with set-offs. Single storey 5 bays. West front has gabled porch with
diagonal buttresses. Pointed arched doorway in double arched surround, with plain
chamfered inner arch, and moulded chamfered outer arch, supported on shafts and
plain capitals with hood mould and label stops. Above a single trefoil window in
a trilobed surround. Surmounted on the gable is a single gabled bellcote. The
north and south walls are identical with 5 pointed lancet windows in chamfered
surrounds with hoodmoulds and label stops. The east front, reputedly an accurate
copy of its medieval predecessor, has a pair of pointed lancets in chamfered inner
surrounds, with deeply moulded outer arches supported on shafts with moulded
capitals. The central pair of shafts are ringed. Above is a mandala-shaped window
in a plain chamfered suround. Interior.: Plain chamfered chancel arch with
octagonal responds. A twin arched piscina, with a reused C12 octagonal shaft with
plain capital. Western gallery containing organ, and a wall tablet to Richard T
Welby 1856. C19 wooden pews, pulpit and roofs. Octagonal font.


Listing NGR: TF0850157780

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