All Saints, Snelland

All Saints is a Grade II parish church on Church Lane, Snelland, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln and the Wragby group of parishes.

Overview

Historic England records a parish church of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, restored and rebuilt in 1863 by Edward Browning of Stamford. Fabric is squared limestone rubble with brick patching and slate roofs with raised stone-coped gables. The plan is a nave with western bellcote, chancel, north aisle, vestry and south porch. The west end has a nineteenth-century two-light window under a gabled double bellcote.

Two fourteenth-century three-light windows with cusped ogee heads survive on the south nave wall. The north aisle reuses a fourteenth-century three-light window and a copy; the vestry east window is a reused fourteenth-century two-light opening. The thirteenth-century inner south doorway is single-chamfered with a roll-moulded hood. The three-bay north arcade, roofs and fittings are of 1863, including polychromatic tiled floors. The listing singles out a font on three annular shafts with an elaborately carved octagonal bowl, and a wooden shield with Queen Victoria's cast-iron royal cypher. Wikipedia notes that a small vestry window cut from a single stone is thought to have been a low-side or leper window.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1166277
• Wragby Group: Snelland
• Wikipedia: Snelland