Church of St Peter is a Grade I listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- narrow-plinth-birch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Village Street, Lusby with Winceby
- OS grid reference
- TF 340 679
- Coordinates
- 53.19165, 0.00462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church with significant fabric from the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 15th centuries. It was altered and reduced around 1893 by Ewan Christian, and a narthex was added in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of squared greenstone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof and bellcote.
The church consists of a nave, a later narthex, and a chancel. The west end of the nave has wide, stepped, and raking buttresses. A flat-roofed narthex, constructed in the early 20th century, covers a 19th-century doorway with a four-centred arch and hood. Above this doorway is a three-light window and a small rectangular gable light. The bellcote is pyramidal, with triple wooden openings on each side, and is slate-hung, topped with an ashlar octagonal chimney stack.
The north side of the nave has a tall, 11th-century triple chamfered plinth. A 12th-century north doorway features a chevron molded hood with a single beast head stop and a label. Massive side alternate quoins are visible at the north east corner of the nave, and the plinth continues along the chancel wall; however, the eastern side has been rebuilt and patched with brick. A 11th-century keyhole window has an ashlar head and reveals, with a curled grooved motif and a cross around the head. The 19th-century east window is of three lights, in Perpendicular style. On the south side are a further 19th-century two-light window with trefoil and trilobe motifs, a 13th-century lancet, and a low, rectangular side window. A two-light Y-traceried window, recut in the 19th century, is also present on the south wall of the nave. A 11th-century blocked south doorway retains a single monolithic long and short jamb, a reset ashlar head, and above it, a stone bearing a raised flaring arm cross.
Inside, at the west end of the nave, the rear arches of the blocked side doors are visible, indicating the nave has been shortened. The chancel arch, originally 11th century, features engaged half round shafts or pilaster strips with hacked back capitals, plain reveals, chamfered imposts, and a reset round head. A 14th-century recut king's head is carved into the reveal of the southern window, in the east side of the chancel. The chancel contains single rectangular aumbries on each side, and a tomb recess on the south. A triangular headed recess is visible in the north reveal of the chancel arch. Fittings include a 15th-century three-light chancel screen with cusped ogee arches and Perpendicular tracery, a 19th-century round tub font with crossed quatrefoils, and 19th-century roofs and pews.
Local climate
Church of St Peter 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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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