Church Of The Holy Ascension

MELTON ROSS A 18 HUMBERSIDE GLANFORD 5264 TA 01 SE (north side) 6/29 Church of the Holy 6/11/67 Ascension - II Parish church. 1867 by Ewan Christian, incorporating masonry from earlier medieval and C18 churches. Chancel decorated in 1890 by Messrs W 0 Powell of London and Lincoln; nave decorated in 1895. Limestone and ironstone ashlar. Westmorland slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 3-bay nave with south porch and west bell-cote, single-bay apsidal chancel with vestry adjoining north side. Nave: plinth, buttresses; 2-light and 3-light segmental pointed traceried windows; west side has single traceried lancets either side of a central buttress supporting a projecting bell-cote with twin shouldered-arch opening and pierced roundel above, coped gable and ashlar cross finial. Chancel: stepped plinth, sill stringcourse; single and twin trefoiled lancets with hood-moulds. Porch: angle buttresses, pointed shafted outer arch of 2 orders. Interior. Pointed moulded chancel arch on shafted responds with foliate capitals. Collared scissor-beam nave roof, ribbed vaulted chancel roof. Chancel arch, roofs and frieze at top of nave wall all have rich polychrome painted decoration. Late C18 and early C19 marble wall tablets to Holgate family at west end of nave. Ornate C19 font. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, p 315; Stamford Mercury, 9 January 1891, p3.

Listing NGR: TA0714710748