Description

LINCOLN

SK9771NE CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE
1941-1/9/76 (South side)
02/10/69 Church of St Michael on the Mount

GV II

Church. 1855-56. By SS Teulon. Dressed stone and ashlar, with
slate roofs. Geometrical style.
PLAN: nave with north aisle, vestry, chancel with bell turret,
south transept, south porch.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and eaves, coped gables, buttresses
except on north side. Pointed arched windows.
Nave, 4 bays, has four 2-light windows to south. West end has
a traceried 5-light window with hoodmould. North aisle has
three 2-light windows.
Vestry has to north 3 round windows flanked by segmental
pointed doorways. At each end, a 2-light window, that to east
with an ogee head. Gabled stack at the corner.
Chancel has a triple gabled polygonal apse with beast stops
and spouts, and three 2-light windows. Above, a buttressed
octagonal bell turret with spire and finial.
Transept has to south a traceried 4-light window with roll
moulded reveal and hoodmould. In each side, a single lancet.
To east, a segmental pointed door and a side wall stack.
South porch has a double filleted roll moulded doorway with
double shafts and hoodmould. Above, an unglazed trefoil. In
each side, a double lancet. Inside, stone seats and an arch
braced common rafter roof, filleted roll moulded doorway with
single shafts and hoodmould.
INTERIOR: nave, rendered, has an arch braced crown post roof.
North side has a 6 bay arcade to the raised north aisle, with
small lancets in the 2 eastern arches. To east, a stairwell
containing an elaborate organ case and a dogleg stair to the
vestry. West window has stained glass, 1928.
Chancel has filleted roll moulded arch with imposts, panelled
dado and reredos, sill band, and complex multi-gabled roof
with arched principal rafters. Three C19 stained glass
windows.
South transept has a 2-bay arcade with quatrefoil central pier
and double chamfered arches and C20 Perpendicular style
screen. Roof similar to nave. C19 stained glass east window
and Perpendicular style reredos, 1909, removed from St Paul in
the Bail.
FITTINGS include octagonal oak pulpit, octagonal panelled font
and panelled benches, all C19.
MEMORIALS include a marble and ashlar inscribed tablet with

cornice, 1837-38, by Durance, to William and Elizabeth
Wilkinson, master and matron of the Bluecoat school. Kneeling
and standing supporters in Bluecoat School uniform. Medieval
style brass in frame, with figure, 1856. Round headed brass
war memorial, 1919.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 499).

Listing NGR: SK9769571685

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Michael On The Mount at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26668023

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