Church Of All Hallows

TF 29 NW WOLD NEWTON MAIN STREET (west side, off) 9/50 Church of All Hallows

4.1.67 II

Parish church. 1862 by James Fowler of Louth, incorporating re-used medieval masonry. Squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings. Slate roof. 3-bay nave with west bellcote, south porch and single-bay apsidal chancel with vestry adjoining north side. Plinth, cill stringcourse, buttresses. Nave: 2-light plate-traceried windows with trefoils above lancets, stepped lancets to west within pointed ashlar panel. Octagonal ashlar bellcote corbelled-out from west gable, with side buttresses, shafted belfry openings and octagonal spirelet with miniature plate-traceried lucarnes and wrought iron cross finial. Lancets to chancel. Porch: moulded pointed outer door with small medieval carved stone figure re-set above. Interior. Painted shafts supporting double-chamfered chancel arch with painted rood screen bearing carved figures. Inscribed floor slabs at west end to Richard William Welfitt of 1716 and Maria Welfitt of 1717. Mid C14 font with octagonal bowl, column and base, the bowl carved with quatrefoil panels and inscribed in Latin "Pray for the souls of John and Johanna Curteys". Architectural fragments: series of eight Cll-C15 capitals and corbels with scalloped, stiff-leaf and plain mouldings re-set into nave and chancel walls, carrying C20 painted carved figures and with brass memorial plaques below; one corbel labelled "Bardney Abbey". C14 stained glass fragments re-set in trefoil of south window. Panels of medieval and post- medieval stained glass with central figures surrounded by mixed fragments are attached to the south and west windows. The architectural fragments were probably collected by W M Wright, 1873-1956. Painting dated 1861 hanging in nave shows former church with blocked south arcade. Sections of this building were reputed to have been incorporated in the south wall, though Fowler's plans indicate a complete rebuilding. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 428.

Listing NGR: TF2419296781