Church Of St Andrew

BONBY CHURCH LANE HUMBERSIDE GLANFORD 2364 TA 01 NW (north side) 2/7 Church of Saint Andrew 6/11/67 - II* Parish church. C12 nave with C13 and C15 windows, C13 blocked north arcade and chancel arch, tower of 1710, C18 chancel. South door blocked, porch demolished and west door inserted first half C19. Restorations of 1894 by C H Fowler of Durham included new chancel windows, removal of nave gallery, exposure of arcade, re-roofing. Tower of red brick in Flemish bond on limestone base with sandstone ashlar dressings to door; nave of chalk rubble and squared blocks with brick gables, eaves cornice and facing to lower section of north and south walls (in English bond to south), limestone and ironstone ashlar dressings; chancel of brick, partly rendered to north and east. Pantile roofs throughout. West tower, 4-bay nave and 2-bay chancel organ chamber/vestry adjoining north side. 2-stage tower: moulded plinth, round-arched chamfered doorway with raised key and impost blocks; round- headed ashlar west window with raised key, timber cross mullion and leaded lights. Moulded string-course, stepped-in top stage with pairs of small round-headed belfry openings. Stepped and dentilled brick bands, rendered frieze and stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Low pyramidal roof with iron finial. Nave: chamfered plinth, quoins. South side has blocked round- arched brick doorway, 2 small lancets (one with restored head), pointed 2- light Y-traceried window with hood-mould. North side has 3 blocked pointed arcade arches with blocked inserted ogee-headed chamfered doorway flanked by square-headed 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery and hood-moulds. Chancel: C19 plinth, square-headed 3-light traceried south window, pointed 3-light traceried east window. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice to nave and chancel; tumbled-in brick to nave west gable. Interior. Blocked round-arched ashlar south doorway; blocked segmental-pointed north doorway. 3 1/2 bays of blocked 4-bay north arcade: pointed double-chamfered arches on central cylindrical pier flanked by octagonal piers and octagonal west respond with plain moulded capitals. Piers bear traces of painted coursed masonry. Remains of chancel arch: octagonal south respond in situ with plain moulded capital; section of double-chamfered arch and former north respond re-set as opening to organ chamber at east end of nave. C19 pointed double-chamfered arch to organ chamber on north side of chancel with re-used east respond from former nave arcade. Font with C12-C13 chamfered square bowl on later base. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 194; drawing by C Nattes, 1796, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.

Listing NGR: TA0037215523