Building record MLI89105 - All Saints Church and attached Sunday School, Monks Road, Lincoln

Summary

All Saints Church and attached Sunday School, Monks Road, Lincoln

Type and Period (2)

  • (Edwardian to 21st Century - 1903 AD to 2050 AD)
  • (Edwardian to 21st Century - 1903 AD to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

PRN 70511 Parish church with attached Sunday School and railing. Built in 1903 by Hodgson Fowler. St Hugh's Chapel and decoration early 20th century by Ninian Comper. Constructed in brick with stone dressings and plain tile roof. Early Decorated style. Plan: nave and chancel under continuous roof, aisles, vestry, sacristy, bell tower, Sunday school. Exterior: mainly pointed arched windows. Chamfered plinth, sill bands, lintel band and hoodmould, rebated eaves, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. Nave west end has four buttresses and three two-light windows. Chamfered square light above. Clerestory has on each side, five three-light windows. Octagonal-spired sanctus bellcote. North aisle, four bays, has buttresses and four windows. To west, a gabled porch with a pair of doors and a central pier. To east, a moulded doorway. West end has a two-light window. Similar south aisle has five single lancets. Chancel east end has a single gabled flanking buttress and a five-light window with tracery, ogee head, hoodmould and mask stops. South side has a flat headed three-light window, and above it, a pointed three-light window. North transept gable has a four-light window with tracery. South transept gable has a buttress and a square stair turret to left. To right, two small windows, and above, a rose window. East side has a two-light window. Former north vestry, now St Hugh's Chapel, has a two-light window and an ogee headed doorway. Vestry, to north-east, has coped parapet, ogee headed door to north, and a three-light window with hoodmould to east. Sacristy and Lady Chapel has mullioned windows and doorway to south. Bell tower, to south-west, two stages, has a pyramidal roof and a single window to east. Above, bell openings to east and west, all with pointed heads. Adjoining Sunday School has west gable with bargeboard and two segment headed stone cross casements. Interior: nave has five-bay arcades with fillet moulded quatrefoil piers, moulded arches with hoodmoulds and stops, clerestory sill band, and arch-braced principal rafter roof. West end has panelling with central figure on bracket, and 19th century stained glass window. Aisles have arch braced lean-to roofs with bosses, and glazed porches at the west ends. All windows have stained glass by Comper. North aisle east end has a stilted arch. South aisle east end has a shouldered arch with tympanum by Comper, and a figure on a bracket to the right. Chancel has a multiple fillet moulded arch, clustered shafts and hoodmould. Stepped coped screen wall and railing. North side has two archways, that to the left with a traceried glazed screen. East end has panelled dado and oak reredos by Fowler, decorated by Comper. Stained glass window. South side has to east a piscina and a seat in a segment headed recess. To right, a traceried organ case with console on gallery. Two stained glass windows. Barrel vaulted wooden roof with stencilled decoration. North transept has stained glass north window. Chapel of St Hugh has two western arches with a figure of St Hugh on a bracket on the central pier. North and east windows by Comper, 1937, that to east flanked by single figures and by aumbry and piscina. Painted wooden altarpiece by Comper. Panelled ceiling. Fittings include an altar slab from Bardney Abbey, traceried octagonal oak pulpit and sounding board by Fowler, wooden lectern, stalls, benches and desks, all 19th century. Rood by Comper. Chancel and north transept windows by Clayton & Bell. Octagonal sandstone font with clustered stem, 19th century. Two crenellated brass floor candlesticks. Memorials include a marble and slate war memorial tablet, c1918. Outside, a dwarf boundary wall with stepped coping and spearhead railing, on east, west and north sides.{1}

Sources/Archives (1)

  •  Index: Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Dec 1999. Revised List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 1941-1/2/269, 269.439-41.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 98518 71403 (47m by 42m) Centre
Civil Parish ABBEY, LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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