Church Of The Holy Cross

SCOPWICK CHURCH LANE KIRKBY GREEN TF 05 NE (east side) 5/35 Church of the Holy Cross

• II

Parish church. 1848. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roof, with coped gables and kneelers. Nave and chancel under a single roof, with western porch and bellcote. Chamfered plinth, cill band and eaves band. Buttresses with set-offs. Single storey 5 bays. West front has gabled porch with diagonal buttresses. Pointed arched doorway in double arched surround, with plain chamfered inner arch, and moulded chamfered outer arch, supported on shafts and plain capitals with hood mould and label stops. Above a single trefoil window in a trilobed surround. Surmounted on the gable is a single gabled bellcote. The north and south walls are identical with 5 pointed lancet windows in chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds and label stops. The east front, reputedly an accurate copy of its medieval predecessor, has a pair of pointed lancets in chamfered inner surrounds, with deeply moulded outer arches supported on shafts with moulded capitals. The central pair of shafts are ringed. Above is a mandala-shaped window in a plain chamfered suround. Interior.: Plain chamfered chancel arch with octagonal responds. A twin arched piscina, with a reused C12 octagonal shaft with plain capital. Western gallery containing organ, and a wall tablet to Richard T Welby 1856. C19 wooden pews, pulpit and roofs. Octagonal font.

Listing NGR: TF0850157780