Church Of St Nicholas

TF 29 NE GRAINSBY CHURCH LANE

4/7 Church of St. Nicholas 9.9.67 G.V. II*

Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C16, 1834 restoration. Squared and coursed chalk and limestone rubble, red brick, ashlar and red brick surrounds, slate roofs. Western tower, nave, chancel, south porch. The 3 stage chalk tower has stepped clasping buttresses, and battlemented parapet with gargoyles. On the south side is a vesica shaped opening with mullion. To the belfry stage are paired C13 lancet lights. The west wall has a single lancet to the ground stage. The north nave wall has been refaced on earlier foundations in brick of English bond in 1834. There is a single C19 timber 2 light window with leaded panes. The chancel is in squared ironstone rubble and has a 3 light C19 east window. To the north of the window is a reset section of C12 chevron moulding. This like many other stones in the chancel is reddened presumably by fire. In the south wall of the chancel is a 2 light C19 window with chamfered square surround, a reset semi-circular window head and a fragment of C12 diamond moulding. In the south wall of the nave are 2 1834 windows matching those of the north, in brick surrounds. Further west a section of C12 ashlar walling is in build with the south door and a steep coped pitch in the east wall of the tower preserves an earlier roof line. The C15 porch has moulded plinth with lowered gable, the outer arch is continuously moulded and outer chamfered. Inside is an early C12 doorway having one plain square order with chamfered hood, plain imposts and rudimentary cushion capitals to missing nook shafts. Interior. Chancel and nave are structurally undivided. The C14 tower arch is double chamfered dying into its reveals. The chancel screen has cusped heads to the lights and incorporates C16 work. The roof is C19. Fittings are C19 including panelled family pew and hatchment to the Haighs. 2 wooden commandment boards and mid C19 stove. The font is C12, a simple tapering tub, on a splayed base.

Listing NGR: TF2781799478