Church of St Wulfram is a Grade I listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C19 Church.
Church of St Wulfram
- WRENN ID
- sheer-lead-umber
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Wulfram, Grantham
- OS grid reference
- SK 914 361
- Coordinates
- 52.91497, -0.64072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Wulfram is a Grade I listed building located in Grantham. It measures 196 by 75 feet and likely shows influence from Salisbury. The north aisle arcades, except for the two western bays, date from before 1180, while the north aisle was rebuilt around 1250. In 1350, the south aisle was lengthened, and the Lady Chapel was constructed. The north aisle was extended in 1450, and St. Katherine's Chapel was added after 1496 by the Hall family. The church underwent restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott between 1866 and 1875.
Notable features include window frames from various periods, the use of ballflower ornament, and a crypt chapel. The north porch was built to house saints' relics, and there is a chaired library, dating from around 1598, above the south porch, which was formerly a priests' living room. The most prominent feature is the slender crocketed spire, which rises to 282 feet 6 inches from the ground to the top of the cross. The spire includes tabernacles with statues of cherubims above small broaches, distinct from the four lower lucarres adorned with ballflower. The second tier of lucarres opens in diagonals, is blank in the main directions, and is reversed in the top tier. A photograph of the church is available in the National Monuments Record.
Local climate
Church of St Wulfram sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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