Description

BOSTON

TF3344NW SPILSBY ROAD
716-1/5/190 (North side)
14/02/75 Church of the Holy Trinity

II

Parish church. 1846-8 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1988
addition by John Webster of Leeds. Limestone ashlar with
Westmorland slate roof, western lobby addition in artificial
stone.
STYLE: Decorated Gothic.
PLAN: nave with clerestorey, aisles, transepts, south-west
porch. At the west end a 1988 flat-roofed extension with
parapet, links to C20 church hall.
EXTERIOR: above the west window of 4 lights with reticulated
tracery and glabed bellcote and angel corbels. Western
extension of 1920s choir vestry, now part of lobby entrance,
with chamfered plinth and moulded parapet. A pair of 3-light
windows with trefoiled ogee heads. The aisles have plinth,
parapet, stepped buttresses and three 2-light ogee-headed
windows.
The transepts have offset buttresses, cross fleury to gables
and 4-light pointed window with flowing tracery. The gabled
north vestry has a traceried 2-light pointed window and
ogee-headed doorway.
In the east gable, and north side of the chancel 2-light
flowing traceried windows. 5-light flowing traceried window to
east end of nave. Angled buttresses with griffins head.
Nave clerestorey with 4 circular lights with trefoils or
quatrefoils. Slightly later gabled south porch, with double
chamfered door and hood, with side lights.
INTERIOR: 4-bay nave arcade with octagonal piers and capitals
with ball flower motif and stiff leaf carving. Double
chamfered pointed arches. Responds at each end with half
octagonal corbels. Crown post roof with braces to tie beams on
carved stone corbels. At each end of aisle an arch into a
short transept, and nave arch into transept. Tall moulded
pointed tower arch with decorated capitals and angel
supporters to corbels.
FITTINGS: include an octagonal C19 carved font, stone pulpit
with panelled traceried sides. Contemporary carved altar rail
and reredos.

Listing NGR: TF3335044775

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668465

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)