Church

Holy Trinity, Bilsby

Holy Trinity, Bilsby

Holy Trinity on Alford Road, Bilsby, is a Grade II* parish church of the fifteenth century with a mid-eighteenth-century tower, in the Diocese of Lincoln.

Location
Bilsby, Lincolnshire
Country
England
County
Lincolnshire
City / town
Bilsby
Address
Summergates Lane, Bilsby, Lincolnshire, PE24 5DJ
Postcode
PE24 5DJ
Built
15th century; tower mid-18th century; repaired 1841; restored 1918
Denomination
Church of England
Dedication
Holy Trinity
Diocese
Lincoln
Parish
The Alford Group
Grade
II*
Style
Perpendicular; Georgian tower
Materials
Squared greenstone rubble, red brick, render, ashlar dressings, slate roofs
Grid reference
TF 473 766
Opening hours
Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
Access
Level access throughout

Overview

Historic England records a church of squared greenstone rubble, red brick, render and ashlar dressings with slate roofs: a two-stage eighteenth-century west tower (upper parts in brick, with a wrought-iron weathervane), nave, chancel, south porch and north aisle. The chancel east window is fifteenth-century, of three lights, partly recut. The interior has a fifteenth-century three-bay arcade on octagonal piers. A churchyard cross is a scheduled monument.

The building was extensively repaired in 1841. A chancel slab commemorates Sir John Byllesby (d. 1640); his descendant Major H. M. Byllesby aided a restoration in 1918. The pulpit stem is described as the bole of a tree. Listed Grade II* on 3 February 1967 (NHLE 1360007). The parish is The Alford Group.

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