Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fallen-dormer-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Lane, Kirkby on Bain
- OS grid reference
- TF 243 624
- Coordinates
- 53.14466, -0.14196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1802, with restorations that included the rebuilding of the chancel and the addition of a porch and windows filled with mullions and tracery in 1879. The church is constructed from squared greenstone rubble and yellow and red brick, topped with slate roofs. It features a west porch and bellcote, along with a nave, chancel, and vestry.
The gabled west porch has a pointed outer doorway and inner planked double doors set in a pointed arch. Above the doorway is a blank ashlar plaque. The bellcote is also gabled, featuring a single bell opening with a moulded hood and floriate stops. The side walls of the nave are adorned with two three-light intersecting traceried windows on the north and three similar windows on the south. The chancel, made of facetted yellow brick, includes two blank pointed arches, two single pointed cusped lights, and a three-light window with panel tracery in the east wall. On the south side, there is a pent-roofed vestry with trefoil-headed lights.
Inside, the church has a wide semi-circular arch that incorporates re-used slightly hollow chamfered voussoirs, with 19th-century rounded responds. Notable fittings include the Royal Arms at the west end, dated 1712, and a font from around 1802, which features a small bowl on a bulbous baluster atop a square base. The east end has three stained glass windows from 1926, created by William Morris & Co. Additionally, there is a fine Jacobean altar table with turned cup and cover balusters, carved friezes, and a central cupboard with panelled and facetted sides.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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