Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the North Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- muted-floor-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Brigg and Immingham MP: Martin Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Church Street, Elsham
- OS grid reference
- TA 036 125
- Coordinates
- 53.5993, -0.43521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church with origins dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries, though the tower retains features from that period. The nave and chancel were constructed in the 13th and 14th centuries, with a north transept added during the same period. Significant alterations were made to the tower, including the addition of a west door. Restorations in 1873 and 1874, undertaken by W Scott Champion, involved extensive rebuilding of the nave, chancel, and transept.
The church is built of limestone and ironstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. It consists of a west tower, a three-bay nave with a single-bay north transept (now a vestry), and a two-bay chancel. The two-stage tower has large, diagonally offset buttresses and a chamfered plinth. The west door is exceptionally fine, featuring a pointed arch composed of four orders with fillet mouldings on five orders of filleted shafts, naturalistic foliate capitals, a hood-mould, and headstops. String courses are present. The buttresses that flank the door each contain recessed 13th-century carved relief panels; the panel on the right depicts an angel and five nude figures, while the panel on the left features figures that are heavily weathered. The tower's first stage has lancet windows on the north and south sides. A string course is cut by a pointed two-light west window with 19th-century geometrical tracery, the original hood-mould, and headstops. A clockface was added in 1896. Square-headed two-light belfry openings contain 19th-century pierced ashlar tablets. A moulded string-course leads to a coped parapet. A low pyramidal spire topped with a wrought-iron finial completes the tower. The south side of the nave has restored lancets and 19th-century pointed two-light windows with curvilinear tracery, hood-moulds, and mainly original headstops. The north side has a pointed two-light window with 19th-century geometrical tracery, an original hood-mould, and headstops. The transept has a 19th-century pointed, chamfered north door with a traceried single-light window above, topped by a pedimented, coped gable. It also has 14th-century square-headed two-light trefoiled east and west windows. Romanesque moulded stone has been re-used in the north wall. The chancel has a round-arched, chamfered north door with a plain hood-mould and carved stops, and restored pointed two-light windows with 19th-century tracery, hood-moulds, and headstops; some of these are original. A string course and coped parapet run throughout the church.
Inside, the small, round-headed tower arch has roll moulding and restored imposts. A small, blocked basket-arched opening sits above the arch, framed by chamfered jambs. The former opening to the transept displays a double-chamfered segmental arch with chamfered jambs and plain imposts. A pointed piscina is located on the south side of the chancel. The church contains 19th-century fittings. A former medieval font is located in the tower, characterized by a plain octagonal bowl and a cylindrical shaft.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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