St Helen, North Thoresby
St Helen, North Thoresby
St Helen is a Grade II* parish church on Church Lane, North Thoresby, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln, with an Early English west tower and a late Anglo-Saxon grave-cover fragment.
- Location
- North Thoresby, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- North Thoresby
- Address
- Church Lane, North Thoresby, Lincolnshire, DN36 5QG
- Postcode
- DN36 5QG
- Built
- 13th–16th century; work of 1732; restored 1903
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Helen
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- North Thoresby
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Early English with Decorated and Perpendicular work
- Materials
- Squared limestone rubble, chalk and limestone coursed rubble, with slate roofs
- Grid reference
- TF 289 987
- Opening hours
- Normally open during daylight hours. If found closed, please phone 01472 840674.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England dates the church to the thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with work of 1732 and a restoration of 1903. Materials are squared limestone rubble and chalk and limestone coursed rubble with slate roofs. The plan comprises a western tower, nave, chancel, north aisle and south porch. The three-stage tower has stepped clasping buttresses, an embattled parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles, a thirteenth-century lancet on the south middle stage and paired pointed belfry lights. The separately roofed north aisle has a late-thirteenth-century west window with Y-tracery, fourteenth-century three-light north windows with mouchettes, and a sixteenth-century embossed terracotta tile above the west window. The chancel south wall retains thirteenth-century lancets and a doorway with brickwork of 1732.
Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer notes an Early English west tower and south arcade, Decorated north-aisle windows, bench ends of 1530–35 with initials and poppyheads, a late Anglo-Saxon interlace slab in a figure-of-eight in the west nave, and stained glass of about 1350–75. The circular tub font is twelfth-century. The church is normally open in daylight hours.