St Mary, Hogsthorpe
St Mary, Hogsthorpe
St Mary’s is a Grade I parish church on the south side of High Street, Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln, a medieval marshland church of limestone, chalk, greenstone and later brick.
- Location
- Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Hogsthorpe
- Address
- High Street, Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, PE24 5PP
- Postcode
- PE24 5PP
- Built
- C12, early C13, late C15, 1607; chancel rebuilt 1870
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Hogsthorpe
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman, Early English and Perpendicular, with C19 restoration
- Materials
- Limestone and chalk ashlar; limestone and greenstone rubble; red brick with ashlar dressings; slate and lead roofs
- Grid reference
- TF 534 722
- Opening hours
- We are open every day of the year between 10am and 4pm, sometimes longer in the summer.
- Access
- Non-accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of the twelfth century, with work of the early thirteenth and late fifteenth centuries, a south aisle and porch partly rebuilt in 1607, and nineteenth-century restoration. The three-stage twelfth-century west tower is of limestone with greenstone banding and chalk and brick patching; a fifteenth-century belfry stage has triple traceried lights. Early thirteenth-century fabric includes tall west lancets and blocked openings. The north aisle mixes brick and greenstone under a lead roof; the south aisle and porch began as fifteenth-century greenstone and ashlar and were partly rebuilt in brick in 1607, with a parapet dated 1607. The limestone ashlar chancel was rebuilt in 1870 in a fourteenth-century reticulated style, after restorations recorded in 1853 and 1910. Roofs are slate and lead.
Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer notes Early English work in the west tower and a five-bay arcade, with Decorated and Perpendicular features, and an inscription associated with the Guild of St Mary. The church stands on High Street in the civil parish of Hogsthorpe, East Lindsey.