Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1964. Parish church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- pale-vault-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1964
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Church Lane, Willoughton
- OS grid reference
- SK 931 933
- Coordinates
- 53.42853, -0.59925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a parish church that dates from the late 13th century, with additions from the 15th century, 1794, and the late 19th century. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and limestone ashlar, topped with slate roofs featuring decorative red ridge tiles and stone coped gables. The church includes a west tower, a nave, and a rectangular chancel with a north vestry.
The west tower, built in the 18th century, has two stages and features a plinth. Its doorway has a pointed head with broad chamfered jambs, a hood mould, label stops, and plank doors. A plaque below the first floor flat string course is inscribed with "W. Bassett, Vicar I White Clerk W. Child." Above the doorway is a large oculus, and there are narrow round-headed lights on the north and south sides at the bell stage level. The north side of the nave has two large, broad round-headed windows. The late 19th-century north vestry has a large chimney on the northwest side and a three-light mullion rectangular window on the north side, along with an east doorway that has a flat head, chamfered surround, and a plank door.
The east end of the chancel features a large pointed late 19th-century window with four pointed and cusped lights with tracery, while the south wall of the chancel has a single round-headed window. To the west, there are remains of a 15th-century rectangular window with two blocked, barely pointed lights. The south wall of the nave also has two large, broad round-headed lights.
Inside, the late 13th-century chancel arch has polygonal responds and a triple chamfered pointed head with a hood mould; the north side has a 19th-century label stop head, while the south side retains a 13th-century label stop head. There is a 19th-century organ arch with a flattened pointed arch and chamfered sides, and a doorway to the vestry to the east with a shallow segmental head and plank door. The church features a 17th-century altar rail and a large ornate ashlar monument to Nicholas Sutton, who died in 1602, which includes an inscription and coat of arms above. The church is furnished with 20th-century pews, a pulpit, a lectern, and a font, and there is a large metal horn above the west door.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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