St Clement, Skegness
St Clement, Skegness
St Clement’s is a Grade II* parish church on Church Road North, Skegness, a rare mid-sixteenth-century rebuild after the older seaside church was lost to flooding. It is in the parish of Skegness and Winthorpe in the Diocese of Lincoln.
- Location
- Skegness, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Skegness
- Address
- Church Road North, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE25 2QH
- Postcode
- PE25 2QH
- Built
- Mid-16th century rebuild after the 1526 flood; restored 19th century and 1930s
- Architect
- James Fowler (1884 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Clement
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Skegness and Winthorpe
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Stone, with 18th-century brick repairs, stone quoins and plinth
- Grid reference
- TF 558 639
- Opening hours
- Please contact us for details of opening times or to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Level access throughout. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a church dedicated to St Clement in Skegness from the thirteenth century. John Leland noted that most of the town was washed away in 1526 and that part of a church remained. Later sources describe salvage and rebuilding on a new site; the listing treats both tower and body as a single mid-sixteenth-century build incorporating reused stone. An earlier list description called the unbuttressed west tower possibly late thirteenth century. The rest of the church is late medieval, extensively repaired in eighteenth-century brick with stone quoins and plinth, and a gabled brick porch. Fixtures include a polygonal Perpendicular font with Kentish-cusped quatrefoils.
James Fowler of Louth restored the church in 1884. After St Matthew’s opened in the new town centre the building fell into disrepair, was closed for a period in the early twentieth century, and was restored in the 1930s. It is now a festival church in the Skegness group.