Description

TF 48 SW MABLETHORPE AND SUTTON HUTTOFT ROAD
Sutton-on-Sea
Church of
6/16 St. Clement
31.5.66
II
Parish church. 1818-19, 1860, 1907 additions. Squared
greenstone rubble, red brick, slate roofs. Western tower, nave,
chancel, north chamber and sextons hut, vestry. 2 stage west
tower has plinth, dentillated eaves course and gabled roof. The
pointed west window has wooden tracery and above a stone panel.
inscribed "I S Cooke Ch.Wdn 1819". The belfry stage has pointed
paired louvred lights in 4 directions. The lower parts of the
nave are in stone, the upper parts in brick, also with
dentillated eaves course. On the north side is a double gabled
c.1860 sexton's hut with 2 pointed leaded lights. In the north
wall of the nave are 2 semi-circular headed lights with wooden
tracery. The north chamber, also of 1860 with dentillated eaves
has 2 pointed lights, and north double doors with Gothic
traceried fanlight. On the east side is a single window with
stone Y tracery and a further pointed light. The 1860 chancel
has 2 lights on the north side and one to the south, and in the
east wall a 3 light window with stone intersecting tracery. C20
vestry to the south, and in the south wall of the nave 2 further
semi-circular headed windows and a matching double door. To the
west of the door a reused stone has a carved medieval pinnacle.
Interior. Double chamfered chancel arch with roll moulded
imposts. Sanctuary arch is similar. At the west end a panelled
timber gallery with fluted pier. The C14 octagonal font has
cusped traceried panels to the sides and a moulded base. All
fittings are C20, apart from turned baluster altar rails now
across the chancel. The church was rebuilt on a new site after
the old church was destroyed by the sea.

Listing NGR: TF5211480903

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St. Clement at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26316327

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)