Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. Church.

Church of St Nicholas

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane, Swaby
OS grid reference
TF 386 771
Coordinates
53.2728, 0.07744
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church built in 1828, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring painted ashlar dressings and a slate roof with overhanging eaves. The church consists of a nave with a western bellcote, a facetted chancel, and a west porch.

The gabled porch includes a plinth and a pointed, stepped outer arch that is surrounded by a sandstone cross, with angle pilasters and blank stepped side arches. The west end of the nave is supported by pilaster buttresses and features a square bellcote with a roundel beneath and louvred chamfered bell openings on the east and west sides. Angle pilasters rise from sandstone corbels, and the pyramidal roof is topped with emaciate sandstone battlements. The side walls of the nave have advanced window bays, each containing two-light windows with wooden tracery, stepped surrounds, and plain bracketed cills. A roundel is located at the east end of the nave, while the lower facetted chancel has a plain east window that matches the others. There are lower 20th-century additions on either side of the chancel.

Inside, the church is plastered and lined to resemble ashlar. The west door features a moulded and painted surround with double panelled doors, and above it are blank quatrefoils within circles. The chancel arch is similar in style, with lower blank arches on either side. The chancel has blank pointed openings on its side walls, and all furnishings are from the 19th century.

Local climate

Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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