---
title: "St Nicholas, Grainsby"
description: "Located in Grainsby, Lincolnshire. Built 12th–16th century; restored 1834. Diocese of Lincoln. Grade II*. Norman and Early English with later restorations style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Lincolnshire","Grainsby","Grade II*","Norman","Chalk","Diocese of Lincoln"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-nicholas-grainsby"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:44:12.292Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:33:50.853Z"
location: "Grainsby, Lincolnshire"
country: "England"
county: "Lincolnshire"
town: "Grainsby"
address: "Grainsby Lane, Grainsby, Lincolnshire, DN36 5PT"
postcode: "DN36 5PT"
built: "12th–16th century; restored 1834"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Nicholas"]
diocese: "Lincoln"
grade: "II*"
style: "Norman and Early English with later restorations"
materials: "Squared and coursed chalk and limestone rubble, red brick, ashlar dressings and slate roofs"
openingHours: "Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church."
parish: "Grainsby"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063111"
gridReference: "TF 278 994"
accessNotes: "Level access throughout"
---

# 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](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063111)
- [Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: St Nicholas, Grainsby](https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI41214)