Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. A Medieval Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
sunken-landing-snow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1967
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Wainfleet Road, Irby in the Marsh
OS grid reference
TF 468 637
Coordinates
53.15075, 0.19441
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located on Wainfleet Road in Irby in the Marsh. It dates from the mid-13th century and the 15th century, with remodeling in 1770, restoration in 1886, and further alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed from greenstone and limestone rubble, limestone ashlar, and red brick, topped with slate roofs featuring stone coped gables and an eastern cross finial.

The church includes a west tower, nave, and chancel that are unified, along with a north vestry. The medieval greenstone tower was largely remodeled in red brick in 1770 and features two battered stages with four stage angle buttresses and a chamfered plinth. The west doorway is semi-circular with moulded imposts and a keystone, leading to a plank door. Above this doorway is a rectangular opening that is now blocked. The tower has rectangular bell openings on three sides with louvred openings, an ashlar coped parapet, and stone corner pinnacles.

On the north side, there are two pointed arcade openings that have been blocked with brick, and two 18th-century semi-circular headed windows with ashlar architraves, imposts, and keystones. The north vestry, added in the 19th century, has a single cusped lancet window to the east. The north side of the chancel features a plinth and a 19th-century segmental headed window with three cusped, ogee headed lights, panel tracery, and a hood mould. The east end has two-stage diagonal buttresses and a larger window with a hood mould. The south side has two similar windows and a re-used mid-13th century doorway with a pointed head, continuous chamfered surround, and a plank door.

The nave displays alternating bands of greenstone and brick, along with a plinth. There are two 18th-century semi-circular headed windows with ashlar architraves, imposts, and keystones. Inside, the pointed interior tower arch from the 13th century has a chamfered arch from the 18th century inserted, resting on chamfered rectangular jambs. A 20th-century west screen is present, while the north arcade is blocked, revealing pointed double chamfered arches and partially exposed polygonal moulded capitals. The chancel arch is a plain pointed design from the 19th century. The north vestry arch has a pointed head with a bowtell moulded surround. There is an early 15th-century cinquefoil piscina in the east wall and a small plain octagonal font from the same period.

Local climate

Church of All Saints receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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