Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Chapel
- WRENN ID
- swift-clay-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a chapel of ease dating back to the early 12th century, with significant alterations and additions in the late 12th century, 14th century, 15th century and 1872, when it was restored by Kirk of Sleaford. It is constructed of roughly coursed ironstone rubble, limestone ashlar dressings, with plaintile roofs. The east gable has a stone coping with a 19th-century finial, and the porch has a similar finial. The building consists of a nave and chancel under a single roof, an incipient north aisle, and a south porch.
The west front is of coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar bands. It features a 19th-century pointed window of two lights with an oculus containing trefoil tracery, flanked by two-stage angle buttresses and a 19th-century bell turret with two trefoil-headed openings and a coped gable. The north side of the early 12th-century north aisle is constructed of roughly coursed rubble with rough quoins, while the north wall of the aisle is of 19th-century ironstone with ashlar bands. The north wall of the chancel steps back slightly from the nave aisle, displaying a section of 12th-century coursed rubble with a fragmentary 12th-century string course and C19 angle buttresses of 2 stages.
The east end has a 12th-century plinth and string course. The east window is 15th-century, containing three lights with perpendicular tracery. The south wall, a very thick, leaning section of 12th-century ironstone rubble, incorporates a plinth and moulded string course, leading to a two-light pointed window with 19th-century tracery and a three-stage buttress. A 15th-century rectangular window with three cusped lights, trefoils above, and a 19th-century hood mould is located to the east of the nave. To the west sits a 19th-century rectangular window with a round-headed light. A 19th-century south porch has a three-centred arch and columnar jambs adorned with scalloped capitals. The south doorway has an early 12th-century chip star decorated lintel and tympanum with a 19th-century door.
Inside, a 12th-century north arcade features two bays with a round pier and polygonal responds supporting the roof; the east respond has a beaded abacus and all have plain moulded capitals. The chancel has two polygonal responds on the north side carrying a 19th-century beam. A 14th-century niche with an ogee arch and gable containing cusping, crockets, a finial, and grotesque heads is located in the east wall of the chancel aisle. A plain aumbry is located in the east wall to the south of the altar, alongside another aumbry in the south wall. The interior also includes a 19th-century tiled floor, pews, and pulpit, as well as an early 12th-century circular stone font without ornament.
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