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LINCOLN SK9771SE MONKS ROAD 1941-1/12/268 (South side) 08/07/91 Church of St Hugh and attached vestry GV II Roman Catholic church. 1893. By Albert Vicars. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Early English style. Mainly pointed arched windows. PLAN: north-west tower with spire, nave with aisles, clerestory and double side chapels, canted apsidal east end, west porch, attached vestry to north. EXTERIOR: north-west tower has double chamfered plinth, moulded string courses and arcaded corbel table. Angle buttresses up to the second stage, becoming octagonal turrets topped with pinnacles above. Half-round conical roofed stair turret to east. West side has a 2-light window with hoodmould and above it, an empty niche. North side has a similar window, with 2 single lancets above it. Second stage has a quatrefoil light to north and west. Bell stage has on each side paired louvred openings with shafts. Setback octagonal spire with cross. Nave, 6 bays, has plain pilasters, coped gable with cross, and south-west angle buttress topped with an arcaded square pinnacle. West end has a 5-light window with tracery, and above it, a blind arcade. Clerestory has on each side, 2 lancets in each bay. North aisle has 3 single lancets and an off-centre lean-to side chapel. South aisle has to left 2 small buttresses. To their right, 2 lancets, and a lean-to projection with 3 round windows. To right again, a porch with coped gable and a canted side chapel with 2 lancets. Major side chapels, to east, have coped gables and square headed windows, 2 to west, single to east. Canted apse has angle buttresses and 3 single lancets with trefoil heads. West porch has coped gable with cross and canopied niche containing a figure of St Hugh. Single angle buttress. 2 pointed arched moulded doorways with shafts and relief scenes in the tympana. INTERIOR: nave has 5-bay arcades with round piers, double chamfered arches with hoodmoulds, and barrel vaulted wooden roof with round wall shafts on corbels. West end has 2 doors flanked by single windows, and stained glass memorial window, 1921. Aisles have lean-to roofs with wall shafts, and a doorway at each end, those to east with a pointed opening above containing organ pipes. Both have stained glass windows, C19 and C20. North aisle has an off-centre segmental pointed opening to a side chapel, with ogee crested canopied gradine. To its left, 3 doorways. South aisle has a similar chapel with canopied and crested gradine, and to its right, single and double doors to confessionals. Side chapels have stained glass windows. East end has double chamfered arch with round responds on foliage corbels. Below them, figures on brackets. Apse has moulded band and mosaic dado. In each side, a double chamfered archway with wooden screen to north and organ to south. Arch braced tie beam roof with central octagonal post. Elaborate Decorated style crested reredos with crocketed canopies and spires. FITTINGS include panelled stalls, desks and benches, and arcaded octagonal stone pulpit, all C19. Memorials include a wreathed brass tablet, 1908. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 500-501). Listing NGR: SK9784071388

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