Description

LINCOLN

SK9771SW NEWLAND
1941-1/11/286 (North side)
15/08/73 New Life Christian Fellowship

GV II*

Former Congregational church. 1876, by Bellamy & Hardy.
Interior mainly refitted 1991. Grey and red brick and ashlar,
with stone dressings and gabled and hipped slate roof.
Cast-iron internal structure. Early English style.
PLAN: nave with aisles and galleries, internal porches and
lobbies, south-east tower with spire.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and string course, cusped first
floor band, moulded coped gable with arcaded corbel table,
dentilled eaves.
West end has gabled buttresses defining the aisles, and at the
corners, the former projecting above the gable. In the centre
5 single lancets and 2 intermediate gabled buttresses. Beyond,
on either side, 3 lancets. All these have linked hoodmoulds.
To left again, a moulded doorway with hoodmould, coped gable
and niche above. Above, a central 5-light window with
Geometrical tracery, flanked by 2-light windows.
Red brick north gable has a wheel window with stone surround
and tracery.
East and west sides have buttresses and double and triple
windows on each floor, with segmental pointed heads.
South-east tower, 2 stages, has a canted hipped stair turret
to east, gabled angle buttresses, machicolated bell stage and
foliage frieze. To south, a moulded doorway with double shafts
and coped gable. Above it, 2 quatrefoils. Stair turret has 3
single lancets on each floor. Set back bell stage has diagonal
buttresses and on each side, a single lancet opening with
shafts and hoodmould. Octagonal broach spire has a single tier
of lucarnes with shafts and gable finials.
INTERIOR: nave has 5 bay arcades with iron piers, round below
the gallery and clustered above, with foliage capitals,
moulded arches and hoodmoulds. Panelled gallery around 3
sides, with vine trail frieze. At each end, a patterned
stained glass window.
North end has a multiple roll moulded arch with hoodmould, and
double shaft imposts, with foliage corbels and capitals.
Pointed barrel vaulted roof with iron ribs, foliage wall plate
and fretted ridge ventilator. Aisles and galleries have leaded
windows and lean-to roofs with struts.
Stairwells to east and west have wooden cantilever dogleg
stairs with turned balusters, that to east with a central

stone pier and roll moulded arches.
All fittings removed 1991, apart from original panelled
benches in the gallery.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 502).

Listing NGR: SK9734671288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549056

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