Church of St Wilfred is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Wilfred
- WRENN ID
- riven-frieze-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Wilfred, Church Lane, Roughton
- OS grid reference
- TF 244 678
- Coordinates
- 53.19317, -0.13925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Wilfred is a parish church dating from the 15th century, which underwent significant restoration in 1890 by Ewan Christian. It is constructed from green sandstone rubble blocks with limestone ashlar dressings. The building features plain tiled roofs with overhanging eaves, bargeboards, and wrought iron cross finials. A tall ashlar polygonal stack is located at the northeast, featuring tiny pointed openings, while a bell is supported by a timber frame hung in the west gable.
The church has a nave with a south porch and a chancel that includes a north vestry. The west end showcases a 19th-century pointed window with three pointed, cusped lights and a hood mould. On the north side of the nave, there are two 19th-century rectangular windows; the right window has two lights, and the left has three lights, all with cusped ogee shaped heads. The north side of the vestry has a slit light, and its east side features a doorway with a plank door. The east end of the chancel is marked by diagonal, single-stage buttresses and a 19th-century pointed window with three pointed, cusped lights and a hood mould. The south side of the chancel has a rectangular window with three cusped ogee shaped lights. A three-stage buttress separates the nave from the chancel.
Inside, the nave has two rectangular windows, each with two cusped ogee headed lights. The west porch, which is gabled and timber-framed, dates from the 19th century and features an ornate bargeboard, return walls with four trefoil headed lights each, and a doorway with a flattened triangular head and mesh doors. The inner doorway from the 19th century has a moulded, pointed head, chamfered jambs, a hood mould, and double plank doors. The chancel arch is also from the 19th century, featuring a double chamfered head and an inner corbelled order. The roofs are from the 19th century, and the church contains 20th-century pews, a pulpit, and a font. Additionally, there are four late 18th-century ornate wrought iron hat hooks, each with two transoms supporting four hooks, a central vertical shaft, and scrollwork.
Local climate
Church of St Wilfred 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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