St Helen, Willingham by Stow
St Helen, Willingham by Stow
St Helen’s is the Grade II parish church of Willingham by Stow, Lincolnshire, a mid-twelfth-century church largely rebuilt in 1880, in the Diocese of Lincoln.
- Location
- Willingham by Stow, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Willingham by Stow
- Address
- High Street, Willingham by Stow, Lincolnshire, DN21 5JY
- Postcode
- DN21 5JY
- Built
- Mid-12th-century tower and north doorway; largely rebuilt 1880
- Architect
- Brodrick and Smith (1880 rebuild)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Helen
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Willingham by Stow
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Norman fabric; Decorated Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Coursed limestone rubble and limestone ashlar; plain-tiled roofs
- Grid reference
- SK 874 845
- Opening hours
- Open dawn to dusk in the summer months.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of mid-twelfth-century origin, with late seventeenth-century work and a rebuild of 1880 by Brodrick and Smith. The plan is west tower, nave with south porch, and a rectangular chancel with north vestry. The unbuttressed west tower retains a small Norman west window; a blocked twelfth-century north doorway survives. The 1880 work remodelled the tower with Decorated-style bell openings, battlements and pinnacles, and rebuilt nave and chancel in coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with plain-tiled roofs.
Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer notes a Transitional drum font with pointed arches on coupled shafts, some Perpendicular bench ends, east glass by Burlison and Grylls, and south-chancel glass by Clayton and Bell. The church was listed Grade II on 16 December 1964 (NHLE 1146826).