Church of St Helen and Tomb Enclosure is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. Church, tomb enclosure.

Church of St Helen and Tomb Enclosure

WRENN ID
moated-iron-bracken
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, tomb enclosure
Address
Church of St Helen and Tomb Enclosure, Church Lane, North Ormsby
OS grid reference
TF 289 932
Coordinates
53.42024, -0.06159
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Church of St Helen, now closed, is a parish church and tomb enclosure built in 1848 by S. S. Teulon, designed in the Early English style. It features squared limestone rubble, green slate, and stone coped roofs. The structure includes a nave with a western bellcote and porch, as well as a chancel. The west door is situated between two stepped buttresses and is covered by a gabled porch that has a moulded outer doorway supported by free-standing shafts, with a moulded inner surround flanked by single lancets. Above the door is a two-light window, a trefoil-headed niche, and a gabled bellcote. The nave's side walls are adorned with three paired trefoil-headed lancets, while the chancel's side walls feature two single lancets and a pointed doorway on the south side, which has a moulded hood and label stops. The east window consists of three lights with geometric tracery and a moulded hood. East of the chancel is a railed grave enclosure, with cast iron railings topped with spearheads and an urn pedestal tomb for Mary Russell, who died in 1855. Inside, there is a single chamfered chancel arch with octagonal imposts resting on human head corbels, and an arch-braced roof on moulded corbels. Most fittings have been removed, except for a 19th-century pulpit and a 15th-century octagonal font.

Local climate

Church of St Helen and Tomb Enclosure sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Stable Range at Utterby House Grade II 1.5 km
  2. Utterby House Grade II 1.6 km
  3. Summer House at Utterby House Grade II 1.6 km
  4. Packhorse Bridge Grade II* 1.6 km
  5. Arbour in Garden Wall to S.E. of Utterby House Grade II 1.6 km
  6. Church of St Andrew Grade II* 1.7 km
  7. Cross Base on South Side of Church of St Andrew Grade II 1.7 km
  8. Manor House Grade II 1.7 km
  9. The Old Rectory Grade II 1.7 km
  10. Old Rectory Grade II 2.1 km