---
title: "St Clement, Skegness"
description: "Located in Skegness, Lincolnshire. Built Mid-16th century rebuild after the 1526 flood; restored 19th century and 1930s. Diocese of Lincoln. Grade II*. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Lincolnshire","Skegness","Grade II*","Perpendicular","James Fowler","Diocese of Lincoln"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-clement-skegness"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:40:29.978Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:33:38.341Z"
location: "Skegness, Lincolnshire"
country: "England"
county: "Lincolnshire"
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"
dedications: ["Clement"]
diocese: "Lincoln"
grade: "II*"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Stone, with 18th-century brick repairs, stone quoins and plinth"
website: "http://skegness-anglican.org.uk/"
openingHours: "Please contact us for details of opening times or to arrange a visit."
parish: "Skegness and Winthorpe"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229943"
gridReference: "TF 558 639"
accessNotes: "Level access throughout. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# 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.

## 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.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1229943](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229943)
- [Skegness Anglican churches](http://skegness-anglican.org.uk/)