Church of St Olave 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 Olave
- WRENN ID
- graven-grate-sable
- 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 Olave, Ruckland Church Lane, Maidenwell
- OS grid reference
- TF 334 780
- Coordinates
- 53.28266, -0.00032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Olave is a parish church built in 1885 by W. Scorer. It is constructed from green sandstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and features a plain tiled roof adorned with decorative red ridge tiles, overhanging eaves, and bargeboards. A small bellcote is incorporated under the overhanging west gable, supported by a wooden frame.
The church consists of a nave and chancel combined, with a west bellcote. The west front is notable for its large plate wheel window, while the north side has a single lancet window. The east end features a pointed window with three trefoil-headed plate lights. On the south side, there is another single lancet window and a doorway to the west, which has a pointed head and a plank door.
Inside, the church has a 19th-century wagon roof, along with pews, a pulpit, and a lectern from the same period. There is a 20th-century octagonal font, a fragmentary medieval stoup, and two coffin lid fragments inscribed with a foliated cross and a cross, respectively, both re-set in the south wall. A gravestone for Charles Humfrey, who died in 1719, has been re-set in the west wall. Local tradition claims that this is the smallest church in Lincolnshire.
Local climate
Church of St Olave 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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