Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. A 18th century Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
slow-attic-vetch
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Type
Church
Period
18th century
Address
Church of All Saints, Main Street, Gautby
OS grid reference
TF 174 724
Coordinates
53.23602, -0.24142
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Parish church. Rebuilt in 1754, incorporating some medieval work, by Robert Vyner of Gautby Park as a family chapel, and reseated in 1914. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, brick coped plain tiled roofs and copper steeple. The plan comprises a western tower, nave and chancel.

A stone plinth with chamfered top runs around the entire church. The three-stage tower has two brick bands, a moulded stone cornice and reused small medieval corner pinnacles. It is surmounted by a short narrow copper-clad spine with weathervane. The western doorway is a plain semicircular-headed opening with ashlar key and impost blocks, containing double 18th-century gates. To the belfry stage are plain semicircular-headed louvred openings. The nave and chancel have cyma moulded stone cornices. On the north side the plinth is of brick with chamfered stone top. To both side walls of the nave are two semicircular-headed windows with ashlar key and impost blocks, with double cross-mullioned timber lights with leaded panes. The chancel east window is also semicircular, containing stained glass and flanked by two recessed panels—a small square one over a tall rectangular one. The chancel south window is a shorter single cross-mullioned version of the nave windows. The west door is six-panelled with its original latch furniture.

The interior has a plain ceiling with a dentillated cornice with flowered paterae between the dentillations. The semicircular moulded chancel arch has moulded imposts and plain keyblock, flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters set on tall moulded bases. All windows except the chancel east opening have moulded splayed plaster surrounds with plain impost and key blocks. At the west end is a small gallery over the door, standing on plain tapering rectangular columns with bulbous moulded balusters. The nave has boarded panelling terminating in a moulded cornice at sill height.

The 18th-century octagonal pulpit and vicar's pew are fully panelled and came from Skelton Church, West Yorkshire. The church originally had box pews with the pulpit set midway on the south wall; it was relocated to its present position during reseating around 1914. At the west end is a vestry enclosure, presumably made from panels of the old box pews. A statue bracket on the chancel arch is an ornate console bracket from a Gautby Hall door surround. The 15th-century octagonal font with quatrefoil side panels came from Laughton, near Gainsborough. In the nave hangs a small brass chandelier, bracketed out from the gallery.

Two reclining stone figures are set in segmental-headed niches either side of the altar. On the north side is Thomas Vyner Esq., a leading banker to Charles II, and on the south side is Sir Thomas Vyner, a former Lord Mayor of London. These monuments were erected in 1672. The banker is depicted in full wig and long gown; the mayor wears his chain of office. The tombs are supported by carved brackets in the form of winged cherubs, with inscribed panels between the brackets. The tombs were moved from St Mary Woolnoth Church, London by Sir Robert Vyner when the church was built in 1756.

Local climate

Church of All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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