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LINCOLN SK9771NE EASTGATE 1941-1/9/103 (North side) 02/10/69 Church of St Peter in Eastgate and attached boundary wall GV II Church. 1870. By Sir Arthur Blomfield. Chancel decoration 1884, by Bodley. South aisle 1914, by Temple Moore, paid for by Alfred Shuttleworth. Coursed squared stone and rockfaced ashlar, with Westmorland slate roofs. Early English and early Decorated styles. PLAN: nave with western bellcote, aisles, sacristy and vestry, chancel, west porch. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded sill band, coped gables with crosses. Single round stone stack to nave. Nave west end has angle and central buttresses. Two 2-light windows with plate tracery and above, 2 round headed niches with a circle between them. Steep gabled single bellcote with billeted impost band. Single lancet to south-west. North aisle with buttresses, 4 bays, has 2 lancets in each bay. South aisle, gabled, 7 bays, has buttresses. To left, a moulded doorway and to right, six 3-light Decorated windows, all with hoodmoulds. East end has a 5-light traceried window with ogee hoodmould. West end has central buttress flanked by a stepped 3-light lancet on each side. Above, a 2-light window with plate tracery, flanked by single lancets. Hipped sacristy has 4 lancets to north. Vestry has parapet and a 2-light window to east and door to north. Chancel, 4 bays, has coved eaves. To south, a central buttress and 3 single lancets with linked impost band. To the right, a 3-light flat headed window. East end has angle buttresses and a 3-light window with plate tracery and hoodmould. West porch has a four-centred arched doorway with a coped gable containing a niche. On either side, single buttresses with pilasters, the left one with a pinnacle. Inside, a crested niche in each corner and an arch braced common rafter roof. INTERIOR: nave has a 4 bay north arcade with round piers and double chamfered arches. South arcade has quatrefoil piers with nook shafts, double hollow chamfered arches and hoodmoulds. Easternmost bay has an elaborate Perpendicular style screen and canopy defining the choir. Painted barrel vaulted wooden roof. Two C19 stained glass windows at the west end. South-west window 1927. Choir has a stencil decorated double purlin scissor braced roof. North aisle has 6 stained glass windows to east, late C19 and early C20, and chamfered eastern arch with wooden screen. Arch braced double purlin roof with wall shafts. South aisle has 6 stained glass windows, late C19 and early C20. Between each pair, a round shaft. East pier has an ogee niche. South-east corner has a cusped piscina. Eastern bay has a Perpendicular style screen defining the war memorial chapel, with memorial east windows c1920. Arch braced roof with strutted crown posts. Chancel has stencil decorated double chamfered arch with round shafts on corbels. Above, a plain lancet. Continuous sill band. North side has to left a traceried wrought-iron organ case with show pipes, and to right an aumbry with conical bracket. East end has a mosaic reredos and a stained glass window, 1875, by Ward & Hughes. Arch braced roof on shield corbels, with panels and bosses, and elaborate painted and gilt decoration. FITTINGS include traceried stalls and desks, plain benches, half-round traceried oak pulpit and round font on clustered stem, all C19. Wooden font, 1970. MEMORIALS include 8 brasses, mid C19 to mid C20. Outside, attached stone boundary wall to street, with chamfered coping, 2 wrought-iron gates, and 8 piers. Plainer wall, to east, has half-round stone coping. Approx. 70m x 50m long. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 500). Listing NGR: SK9797871954

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