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LINCOLN SK9871NW SEWELL ROAD 1941-1/10/330 (North side) 02/10/69 Chapel at St Anne's Bedehouses GV II Bedehouse chapel. c1853. By W Butterfield for R W Sibthorp. Brick with stone dressings and plain tile roof. Early English style. PLAN: nave and chancel under continuous roof topped with a fleche, vestry, south porch. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and sill band, cogged eaves, coped east gable and porch. Nave and chancel, 4 bays, has on either side 2 chamfered pointed arched recesses with 3-light and 4-light pointed arched windows. To east, a diaper work cross. East end has a 3-light pointed arched window with hoodmould. Each gable has a truncated lancet in the peak. Octagonal wooden fleche has an arcaded bell stage and leaded spire with weathercock. Lean-to vestry has 2 single lancets to east and a large side wall stack. South porch has single flanking buttresses and chamfered doorway with roll mould, with shafts and hoodmould with stops. Above it, a figure panel. Inside, stone benches and common rafter roof with collars. Double roll moulded inner doorway with hoodmould and corbels. Above it, a segment headed recess containing a cross with Latin inscription. INTERIOR, rendered, has original polychromatic decoration, now painted over. All-over waggon roof with corbels at east end. Moulded sill band, with trefoil band in chancel. Nave windows have fragments of stained glass in the heads. Chancel north side has a stained glass window, C19, and to its right, a doorway and a segmental pointed recess with figure. East window 1954, by Comper. Small aumbry to south-east. FITTINGS include traceried oak stalls and desks with bookstands and candlesticks. Organ in panelled case. Benches with shaped ends. MEMORIALS include 8 brasses in tiled surrounds, late C19, by Waller, mainly to members of the Sibthorp family. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 511). Listing NGR: SK9849071765

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