St Helen's Church, Little Cawthorpe

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St Helen's Church, Little Cawthorpe
Style
Gothic Revival
Completed1860
Specifications
MaterialsBrick with slated roof

St Helen's Church is a

Anglican church in the village of Little Cawthorpe, 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] Little Cawthorpe is about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the village of Legbourne, and 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Louth.[2][3]

History

The church was built in 1860, and designed by Robert J. Withers.[1] It was declared redundant in April 1996.[4]

Architecture

Exterior

St Helen's is constructed in red brick, with decoration in dark burnt brick. The dressings are in

weathercock. At the west end of the church is a large pointed window with two lights. On the north side is the vestry with two lancet windows to the east. The vestry has a doorway with a small pointed window to its right, and in its east wall is a two-light pointed window. The east window is large, with three lights. Beneath it is a foundation stone inscribed with the date 1860. On the south side of the chancel is a two-light window, and there is a pair of lancet windows in the south wall of the nave. The gabled porch has a pointed doorway.[1]

Interior

Inside the church, the pointed chancel arch has two orders and is decorated with red diamond-shaped tiles. Its responds have marble shafts and ornate capitals. In the north wall of the chancel are three sharply pointed openings, the one to the east leading to the vestry. In the south wall is a plain sedilia. Behind the altar is an ornate reredos composed of encaustic tiles. The altar rail, the octagonal font, and the polygonal pulpit all date from the 19th century. There is a monument under the west window dated 1860.[1] The windows contain richly coloured stained glass.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Historic England, "Church of St Helen, Little Cawthorpe (1359663)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 19 November 2013
  2. ^ a b c St Helen's Church, Little Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 9 December 2016
  3. ^ Little Cawthorpe, Streetmap, retrieved 12 March 2011
  4. ^ a b Little Cawthorpe: Church History, GENUKI, retrieved 12 March 2011
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