Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping

Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping

A small simple rectangular brick church seen from the southeast with two round-headed windows on the south side and a bellcote on the west gable

Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping, from the southeast
Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping
Location in Lincolnshire
Coordinates: 53°09′12″N 0°08′39″E / 53.1533°N 0.1441°E / 53.1533; 0.1441
OS grid reference TF 434 639
Location Great Steeping, Lincolnshire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website Churches Conservation Trust
Architecture
Functional status Redundant
Heritage designation Grade II*
Designated 17 December 1987
Architectural type Church
Style Georgian
Groundbreaking 1748
Completed 1908
Specifications
Materials Brick with limestone dressings and some greenstone
Tiled roof

Old All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Great Steeping, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] The church stands in marshland, surrounded by a medieval field system, at the end of a lane leading south from the B1195 road, some 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Spilsby.[2][3]

History

The church was built in 1748 on the site of an earlier medieval church, and was restored in 1908.[1] However a new church, also dedicated to All Saints, was built nearer the centre of the village in 1891, and the old church was declared redundant in August 1973.[4]

Architecture

All Saints is constructed in brick with limestone dressings, on a plinth of greenstone rubble. The roof is tiled.[1] The architectural style is Georgian.[5] Its plan is simple, consisting of a nave and chancel under one roof, and a bellcote at the west end. The bellcote is rectangular and weatherboarded, with a pyramidal roof. At the west end of the church is a doorway with a moulded architrave and a raised keystone. Above this is a stone inscribed with the dates 1748 and 1908, and there is a band with a pediment above that. Along each side of the church are two semicircular-headed windows. Between the windows on the south side is a sundial. At the east end is a smaller semicircular-headed window, above which is the outline of the gable of the chancel of the earlier church.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Historic England, "Old Church of All Saints, Great Steeping (1267241)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 31 August 2013
  2. 1 2 All Saints' Church, Great Steeping, Lincolnshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 25 March 2011
  3. ↑ Great Steeping, Streetmap, retrieved 9 March 2011
  4. ↑ Great Steepling, Church History, GENUKI, retrieved 9 March 2011
  5. ↑ Great Steeping, All Saints Church, Britain Express, retrieved 9 March 2011
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