Church Of St Hybald

SE 90 SW MANTON MANTON

5/47 Church of St Hybald -

6.11.67 II

Church. 1861 by J M Hooker and Wheeler of Tunbridge Wells, for M D Dalison. Squared limestone with limestone ashlar dressings, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 3-bay nave with south-west tower containing porch, 2 bay chancel with vestry adjoining north side. Chamfered plinth, quoins, buttresses, string-course. 3-stage tower, with clasping buttresses, pointed moulded outer and inner doorways. Narrow shouldered lights to second stage. Splay-footed belfry with clasping buttresses and pointed 2-light traceried openings. Splay-footed spire with shafted lucarnes. Iron cross finial. Nave: 2-light windows and 4-light west window with Geometrical tracery. Chancel: paired lancets under dripmould and a 3-light east window with Geomentrical tracery. Coped gables with finials. Interior: south chancel windows divided by polished marble shafts. 2 earlier C19 marble wall plaques in vestry, one with draped urn. Elaborately-carved octagonal font with marble shafts; other original C19 fittings and stained glass intact. The church, sited on the side of the Lincoln Cliff, forms an imposing feature in the landscape.) N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 311.

Listing NGR: SE9340402692