St Clement, Sutton on Sea
St Clement, Sutton on Sea
St Clement’s is a Grade II parish church on Huttoft Road, Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln and the parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton. The listing notes that it was rebuilt on a new site after the old church was destroyed by the sea.
- Location
- Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Sutton on Sea
- Address
- Church Lane, Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, LN12 2JB
- Postcode
- LN12 2JB
- Built
- 1818–19; additions 1860 and 1907
- Consecrated
- 1819
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Clement
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Mablethorpe and Sutton
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Early C19 Gothic
- Materials
- Squared greenstone rubble and red brick with slate roofs
- Grid reference
- TF 521 809
- Opening hours
- Open during the annual Wolds & Coast Churches Festival: Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Otherwise please contact the warden to arrange access or pop in for (or after) a service on Sunday at 10am, or Wednesday at 9.30am.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of 1818–19, with additions of 1860 and 1907, in squared greenstone rubble and red brick under slate roofs. The plan is a two-stage west tower, nave, chancel, north chamber, sexton's hut and vestry. The tower has a plinth, dentillated eaves and a gabled roof; a pointed west window with wooden tracery sits below a stone panel inscribed “I S Cooke Ch.Wdn 1819”. The belfry has pointed paired louvred lights on all four sides. The lower nave walls are stone, the upper brick, also with dentillated eaves.
The 1860 chancel has a three-light east window with intersecting stone tracery. A reused medieval carved pinnacle is built into the wall west of the south door. Inside are a double-chamfered chancel arch, a west gallery on a fluted pier, and a fourteenth-century octagonal font with bulbous traceried panels. Most fittings are twentieth-century, apart from turned-baluster altar rails. Wikipedia records dedication to Clement of Rome in 1819 and the local name “leaning church”.