St Catherines Methodist Church And Adjoining Church Hall

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SK96NE ST CATHERINE'S 1941-1/5/319 (West side) 15/08/73 St Catherine's Methodist Church and adjoining church hall (Formerly Listed as: ST CATHERINE'S (West side) Former Methodist Church and adjoining Church Hall)

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Former Methodist church and adjoining church hall, now a DIY warehouse. Church hall, formerly school, 1881 and church 1887, by Charles Bell. Tower and spire 1908 by Withers & Meredith of London. Grey brick, with red brick and stone dressings and slate roofs. Early English style. PLAN: nave with clerestory and aisles, chancel, transept, south-east tower and spire, attached hall to south-west. EXTERIOR: pointed arched windows. Chamfered plinth, moulded sill band, dentilled eaves, coped gables. Nave, 4 bays, has dividing pilasters, and 3 single lancets in each bay on either side. West end has a stepped triple lancet. North aisle, 5 bays, has buttresses and a 2-light window in each bay and at the east end, all with linked hoodmoulds. South aisle is similar, but with 4 bays. Chancel, single bay, has to north 3 lancets in the clerestory. Coped east gable has string courses and cross, and single gabled buttress. Central roll moulded doorway with shafts and hoodmould, flanked by single lancets. Above, 3 graduated 2-light windows, and above them, a smaller roll moulded 3-light window. Transept, to south-west, has 2 single lancets and above them, moulded round windows with hoodmoulds. Square tower, 3 stages, has gabled angle buttresses to the 2 lower stages, chamfered and moulded string course, and billeted corbel table. East side has a shouldered doorway with moulded surround and enriched tympanum. Second stage has to east and south, 2 lancets with linked hoodmoulds. Recessed third stage has 2 cusped 2-light openings with shafts on each side, and octagonal corner shafts topped with spire pinnacles. Moulded blind arcaded octagonal drum, carrying a set back octagonal spire with brick bands, 4 blank gabled lucarnes and finial. At the west end, a gabled corridor forming a link to the church hall. Hall has buttresses and cogged impost band. Each

side has 3 round headed windows. South gable has a projecting centre with angle buttresses and double sill band. Two 2-light windows with cusped circles above, flanked by single lancets. INTERIOR has 4-bay arcades with round granite piers, moulded arches and hoodmoulds. Clerestory windows have hoodmoulds. Arch braced principal rafter roof with wall shafts. West end has gallery with raked seats. Aisles have braced lean-to roofs. Chancel has moulded arch with hoodmould and granite shafts. Traceried panelled dado and stained glass east window, 1888. Panelled barrel vaulted wooden roof. Transept has principal rafter roof, and hall has arch braced king post roof. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 502).

Listing NGR: SK9712969559