Holy Trinity, Allington
Holy Trinity, Allington
Holy Trinity at West Allington, Lincolnshire, is a Grade II* parish church of about 1150, with later medieval, Georgian brick and early-twentieth-century work, in the Diocese of Lincoln.
- Location
- Allington, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Allington
- Address
- Bottesford Road, Allington, Lincolnshire, NG32 2EA
- Postcode
- NG32 2EA
- Built
- c.1150; 13th–16th centuries; late 18th century; c.1914
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- West Allington Holy Trinity
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Norman, Perpendicular and Georgian
- Materials
- Coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, limestone ashlar, red brick; slate, plain tile and lead roofs
- Grid reference
- SK 855 402
- Opening hours
- The church is usually open daily from Easter to harvest 10am to 4pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England describes a parish church of about 1150, with thirteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century fabric, a late-eighteenth-century brick lengthening, and work of about 1914. Materials are coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, limestone ashlar and red brick, under slate, plain-tile and lead roofs. The west front is early thirteenth century, with a double-opening bell turret. A mid-twelfth-century north arcade of four bays has round piers, double-chamfered round arches with chip-star decoration, and small rosettes in the spandrels.
The chancel is late-eighteenth-century brick with reset medieval windows, including a twelfth-century round-headed light. A fifteenth-century ironstone porch shelters a twelfth-century doorway with scalloped capitals. The late-fifteenth-century octagonal font has panels of heads, flowers and a shield. A seventeenth-century pulpit and gallery survive; the poet George Crabbe was rector from 1790 to 1814. A vestry of about 1914 re-uses fifteenth-century fragments. The church is mentioned in Domesday.