Church Of St Gilbert is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Church.

Church Of St Gilbert

WRENN ID
wild-truss-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Boston
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Gilbert is a former Chapel of Ease that was dedicated as a Parish Church in 1922. It features medieval stonework and was rebuilt in 1847 by S. Lewin, with a chancel added in 1854, all in the Perpendicular style. The building is constructed of squared limestone rubble and has slate roofs with stone coped gables.

The church consists of a nave with a western bellcote and a chancel. The west doorway is notable for its four shafted orders and deeply moulded head, flanked by single short buttresses. Above the doorway is a circular octolobe window with a central quatrefoil. The gabled bellcote features a trefoil-headed bell opening topped with a crocketed ogee hood mould.

On the north wall of the nave, there are four stepped buttresses and two 19th-century three-light windows that incorporate earlier chamfered mullions and surrounds, along with two additional 19th-century two-light windows. The chancel side walls each have a pair of two-light 19th-century windows, and the east end has a three-light window. The south wall of the nave includes one three-light window, three two-light windows, and a 15th-century priest's door with a four-centred arch, accompanied by a scratch dial on the right jamb.

Inside, there is a tall narrow 19th-century chancel arch with moulded reveals and carved responds. At the west end, a timber gallery features a traceried panelled front. The roofs of the nave and chancel are adorned with elaborate hammer beams that include traceried panels, spandrels, and moulded pendants, with wall posts supported on octagonal corbels. The chancel east window has a shafted rear arch. The glass in the chancel is from the late 19th and 20th centuries, with the east window designed by Wailes.

Furnishings include pews and stalls made of softwood and oak, a panelled wooden altar table, painted symbols of the Passion, and an octagonal 19th-century ashlar font with decorated panels.

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