St Nicholas, Grainsby

St Nicholas is a Grade II* village church on Grainsby Lane, Grainsby, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln, with Norman fabric and a thirteenth-century chalk tower.

Overview

Historic England dates the parish church to the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a restoration of 1834. Materials are squared and coursed chalk and limestone rubble, red brick, ashlar and red-brick surrounds, and slate roofs. The plan is a western tower, nave, chancel and south porch. The three-stage chalk tower has stepped clasping buttresses, a battlemented parapet with gargoyles, a vesica-shaped opening with a mullion on the south, paired thirteenth-century lancets to the belfry and a west lancet. The north nave wall was refaced in English-bond brick in 1834. The chancel is squared ironstone rubble; stones in the east wall, including a reset twelfth-century chevron moulding, are reddened, presumably by fire. The south porch is fifteenth-century; the south doorway is twelfth-century.

Fittings include a twelfth-century tapering tub font, a chancel screen with cusped lights, a panelled family pew and hatchment to the Haigh family, commandment boards and a mid-nineteenth-century stove. The fourteenth-century tower arch is double-chamfered. There are no regular opening times.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1063111
• Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: St Nicholas, Grainsby