Building record MLI40254 - Church of St Benedict, Haltham
Summary
A parish church dating from the early 12th century.
Type and Period (1)
- CHURCH (Medieval to Modern - 1100 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
St Benedict's Church has Norman (1066AD to 1200AD) to Perpendicular (1180AD to around 1520AD) features, with a Decorated chancel (about 1290AD to about 1350AD). In 1964 the church was in normal use. {1}{2}{3}
St Benedict's is now a redundant church, although the churchyard is still in use. {4}
Stained glass in this church dates to the 14th and 17th centuries. {5}
A parish church, now vested in the Redundant Churches fund, dating from the early 12th century. It underwent alterations in the late 12th, late 13th, 14th and 15th centuries and was restored in 1880 and 1891. It was constructed of squared greenstone coursed rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and red brick patching and gables. It has slate roofs and a timber boarded belfry. There is also a nave, with bellcote turret, chancel, south porch and north aisle. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {6}
A detailed building survey of the Church of St Benedict was conducted during 2010 and 2011. The church has walling material principally of the local Spilsby green sandstone with limestone dressings and later red brick patching. The roofs are of English and Welsh slate. The present nave is late Norman and seems likely to have been a small two cell church originally. The church contains a re-set early Norman tympanum suggesting that there was an earlier church on the site. The building was extended in the 14th century, when the chancel was added to the east and the porch to the south was built. The north wall of the nave was removed and a north aisle added in the 15th century. A late 18th century drawing of Haltham church by Claude Nattes shows a timber tower on the nave roof near to the west end and the chancel roof is clearly thatched. The church was restored in the late 19th century and the roofs were raised. It still retains much earlier work including some early window tracery and a fine east window in the chancel. There is some surviving late medieval woodwork with pew ends, a former parclose screen and a timber-framed bell tower with a painted Royal Arms of Charles I on the surrounding wooden screen. This bell tower is contained within a timber boarded enclosure at the west end of the nave. When the nave roof was raised, the bell tower framework was also extended with some more slender uprights, and it was clad in the weather boarding and hipped roof visible today (2012). The oak bell tower framework has not been dated but similar examples date from the late 14th to the early 16th centuries so it is likely to be late medieval. There are three bells of 16th and 17th century date. {7}
Sources/Archives (7)
- <1> SLI2344 Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. TF 26 SW: 5.
- <2> SLI2881 Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 26 SW: X.
- <3> SLI1062 Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p.359.
- <4> SLI5010 Verbal Communication: PEACH A. 1994. -.
- <5> SLI7602 Bibliographic Reference: Penny Hebgin-Barnes. 1996. The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire. p.114.
- <6> SLI9195 Index: Department of the Environment. 1987. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 2/15.
- <7> SLI14368 Report: Anderson and Glenn. 2012. The Church of St Benedict, Haltham on Bain. -.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 24613 63843 (24m by 15m) Surveyed |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HALTHAM, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Dec 6 2023 10:30AM
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