Parish Church Of St Lucia

The Parish Church of St Lucia is a church built between 1867 and 1868 by Charles Kirk of Sleaford, designed in the Norman Revival style. It is constructed from rock-faced limestone, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a plain tiled roof with raised stone coped gables and a crested ridge. The church comprises a nave with a double bellcote, a south porch, a vestry, and an apsidal chancel.

The exterior is characterized by pilaster buttresses, a chamfered plinth, and a looped and scrolled corbel table. To the west, there are a pair of round-headed windows with a circular window above. The gable features a gabled double bellcote with a dogtoothed surround around the openings, a circular midwall shaft, and engaged side shafts. The north wall has three round-headed windows with roll-moulded surrounds, and the east wall of the vestry has a similar smaller window. The apse includes five round-headed windows with angle shafts, cushion capitals, and chamfered surrounds, along with a chamfered cill band. The south wall mirrors the north with two matching windows.

The gabled south porch has an outer doorway in a mid-12th century style, featuring two moulded orders of roll and chevron supported by paired angle shafts with cushion capitals. The inner doorway has a single order of roll moulding interrupted by plain chevrons.

Inside, the round-headed chancel arch has two plain chamfered orders and half-engaged round side shafts with stiff leaf capitals. In the north wall of the chancel, a broad double chamfered arch with half-engaged shafted reveals and octagonal capitals leads into the vestry. The sanctuary is adorned with fine Minton tiles, and behind the altar is a limestone reredos decorated with paterae, crosses saltire, and cushion capitals.

The church fittings are all from the 19th century, including a circular ashlar pulpit with blank fluted arcading on the sides. At the rear of the nave, the font is a notable late 12th century pillar piscina featuring chevrons on the stem, a cushion capital with paterae, and chip-carved stars on top.