Description

LINCOLN

SK96NE HALL DRIVE, Boultham Park
1941-1/5/141 (South side)
08/10/53 Church of St Helen

GV II*

Church. C13. Chancel rebuilt 1864 by Michael Drury. Nave
extended and restored 1887 by C H Fowler. Dressed stone and
ashlar with slate roofs and a side wall stack. Nave with
western bellcote, and chancel.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinths and eaves, coped gables with
crosses.
Nave, 3 bays, has buttressed north side with 2 flat headed
Decorated windows and to their right, a smaller 4-centred
arched window. South side has 2 buttresses and 2 mid C14 ogee
headed 2-light windows. To left, a small single lancet. West
end has a central C19 4-centred arched door with flat head,
and above it, a Decorated 2-light window, both with
hoodmoulds. Above again, a square wooden bellcote, shingled,
with louvred openings, topped with a concave sided octagonal
spire with weathercock.
Chancel, 2 bays, has on either side a central buttress flanked
by single lancets. East end has angle buttresses and a 3-light
window with Geometrical tracery, hoodmould and mask stops.
Above it, a trefoil containing a crest.
INTERIOR: nave has a blocked south arcade, C13, 2 bays, with
an octagonal pier with 4 detached shafts. Octagonal responds
with nailhead bands, and double chamfered arches with
hoodmoulds and mask stops. Two mid C19 stained glass windows.
North-west window has stained glass and brass c1914. Panelled
barrel vaulted wooden roof with bosses. West end has a C19 2
storey gallery with traceried balustrade and winder stair.
Chancel has a double chamfered arch, C13, with octagonal
responds and capitals. Single windows to north, south and
east, with late C19 stained glass. Principal rafter roof with
arch braces on corbels.
FITTINGS include a good square baluster shaped font, C18,
inscribed "Boultham Church", and a desk with reused C18
fleur-de-lys ends. C19 fittings include octagonal oak skeleton
pulpit, traceried stalls, wrought-iron altar rail and plain
octagonal font.
MEMORIALS include 2 tablets, mid C19, and 3 brasses c1900, all
to the Ellison family of Boultham Hall. Brass war memorial
tablet, 1919.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 526).

Listing NGR: SK9646069090

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Helen at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17548940

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