Church Of St Hybald

SE 9602-9702 HIBALDSTOW CHURCH STREET (south-east side)

20/51 Church of St Hybald

6.11.67

GV II

Parish church. Partly-restored C13 tower arch and chancel south window. C14-C15 font. Chancel of 1865-6 by Ewan Christian; nave, north aisle and vestry of 1875 by James Fowler of Louth; tower of 1958-60 by Lawrence Bond. Nave, aisle, porch and chancel of coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings; tower of concrete blocks with ashlar dressings. Plain tiles to tower roof, slate roofs to remainder. Nave and chancel in C13 style; tower in Gothic Revival style. West tower, 4-bay nave with north aisle, south porch and 2-bay chancel with vestry adjoining north side. 3-stage tower with pyramidal roof. Nave and north aisle: plinth, buttresses between bays; single and twin lancets with hood-moulds, sill string course. Chancel: quoins, buttress to south; pointed chamfered south door with hood- mould, tall C13 lancet to left, pair C19 lancets to right; stepped east lancets. Interior. Pointed double-chamfered tower arch on octagonal responds with plain moulded capitals and bases, most of north respond and part of south restored. C19 pointed double-chamfered arcade on cylindrical piers with moulded capitals and bases, corbelled responds; ornate pointed chancel arch with fillet mouldings on corbelled wall shafts with dogtooth moulding. Fine Cl4-C15 carved Perpendicular font with octagonal bowl on C19 pedestal and base, the bowl decorated with foliate cresting to the side panels, and a band of fleurons and series of rosettes, faces and an angel on the underside. N Pevsner and J Harris The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 273.

Listing NGR: SE9795102620