St James the Great, Aslackby
St James the Great, Aslackby
St James’s is a Grade I parish church on Temple Road, Aslackby, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln.
- Location
- Aslackby, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Aslackby
- Address
- Temple Road, Aslackby, Lincolnshire, NG34 0HZ
- Postcode
- NG34 0HZ
- Built
- c.1300–c.1320; mid-15th century; chancel rebuilt 1856
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- James the Great
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Aslackby St James
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Early English and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Limestone ashlar and coursed ironstone rubble; slate roofs with some lead
- Grid reference
- TF 085 303
- Opening hours
- Open 10am til dusk each day.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England dates the parish church to about 1300 and 1320, with mid-fifteenth-century work, restoration, and a chancel rebuilt in 1856. The fabric is limestone ashlar and coursed ironstone rubble, with slate roofs of stone-coped gables and some lead. The plan is a west tower, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, and chancel. The early fourteenth-century west tower is partly clasped by the aisles and has three-stage angle buttresses, a fourteenth-century west doorway, late fifteenth-century traceried west window, battlements, and corner pinnacles.
The listing describes a tall c.1300 tower arch, three-bay aisle arcades of the same date, a fifteenth-century tie-beam nave roof restored in the nineteenth century, and a fourteenth-century octagonal font. Wikipedia notes Early English and Perpendicular character and an association with the nearby Knights Templar preceptory.