Church Of All Saints And Attached Sunday School And Railing

Church of All Saints and attached Sunday School and railing, Monks Road, Lincoln

Parish church with attached Sunday School and boundary railing, built in 1903 to a design by Hodgson Fowler. The church is constructed of brick with stone dressings and a plain tile roof, executed in the Early Decorated style. St Hugh's Chapel and its decoration date to the early 20th century and were created by Ninian Comper.

The church comprises a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, with aisles to both sides, a vestry, sacristy, bell tower and Sunday school building. The plan is unified and well-proportioned, with the principal architectural features emphasised through stone dressings and window tracery.

The exterior is characterised by pointed arched windows throughout. A chamfered plinth runs around the building, with sill bands, lintel band and hoodmould all consistently detailed. Eaves are rebated and gables are coped with kneelers and crosses.

The nave's west end features four buttresses and three two-light windows, with a chamfered square light above. A clerestory on each side contains five three-light windows. An octagonal-spired sanctus bellcote crowns the roof. The north aisle, comprising four bays with buttresses and four windows, has a gabled porch to the west with paired doors and central pier, and a moulded doorway to the east. A two-light window lights the west end. The south aisle is similar, with five single lancets instead.

The chancel's east end has a single gabled flanking buttress and a five-light window with tracery, ogee head, hoodmould and mask stops. The south side displays a flat-headed three-light window below a pointed three-light window. The north transept gable contains a four-light window with tracery. The south transept has a buttress and square stair turret, with two small windows and a rose window above.

The former north vestry, now St Hugh's Chapel, has a two-light window and ogee-headed doorway. The separate vestry to the north-east has a coped parapet, ogee-headed door to the north and a three-light window with hoodmould to the east. The sacristy and Lady Chapel feature mullioned windows and a doorway to the south. The bell tower, positioned to the south-west, rises in two stages beneath a pyramidal roof, with a single window to the east and pointed-headed bell openings to east and west.

The adjoining Sunday School has a west gable with bargeboard and two segment-headed stone cross casements.

The interior displays considerable architectural distinction. The nave has five-bay arcades with fillet-moulded quatrefoil piers and moulded arches with hoodmoulds and stops. A clerestory sill band and arch-braced principal rafter roof complete the composition. The west end is panelled with a central figure on a bracket and a 19th-century stained glass window. The aisles have arch-braced lean-to roofs with bosses and glazed porches at the west ends. All windows throughout contain stained glass by Comper. The north aisle's east end features a stilted arch, while the south aisle's east end has a shouldered arch with tympanum by Comper and a bracketed figure.

The chancel is distinguished by a multiple fillet-moulded arch with clustered shafts and hoodmould. A stepped coped screen wall and railing separate it from the nave. The north side contains two archways, the left one with a traceried glazed screen. The east end has panelled dado and an oak reredos by Fowler, decorated by Comper, with stained glass window above. The south side contains a piscina and seat in a segment-headed recess to the east, with a traceried organ case and console on a gallery to the right, flanked by two stained glass windows. A barrel-vaulted wooden roof with stencilled decoration covers the space. The north transept contains a stained glass window to the north.

St Hugh's Chapel is entered through two western arches, with a figure of St Hugh on a bracket on the central pier. The north and east windows, created by Comper in 1937, frame single figures flanking an aumbry and piscina to the east. A painted wooden altarpiece by Comper occupies the east end, and the ceiling is panelled in wood.

Fittings include an altar slab from Bardney Abbey, a traceried octagonal oak pulpit and sounding board by Fowler, wooden lectern, stalls, benches and desks of 19th-century date, and a rood by Comper. Chancel and north transept windows are by Clayton & Bell. An octagonal sandstone font with clustered stem dates to the 19th century. Two crenellated brass floor candlesticks are also present.

A marble and slate war memorial tablet of approximately 1918 is mounted inside the church.

Outside, a dwarf boundary wall with stepped coping and spearhead railing encloses the churchyard on the east, west and north sides.