St Peter, Raithby
St Peter, Raithby
St Peter’s is a Grade II parish church in Raithby cum Maltby, about a mile south-west of Louth in the Lincolnshire Wolds, in the Diocese of Lincoln. The address The Row and postcode LN11 9RR identify this Raithby, not Raithby by Spilsby.
- Location
- Raithby, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Raithby
- Address
- The Row, Raithby, Lincolnshire, LN11 9RR
- Postcode
- LN11 9RR
- Built
- Rebuilt 1839 reusing late C13 fragments; chancel restored 1883
- Architect
- W. A. Nicholson (1839); C. H. Fowler (1883 chancel)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Raithby cum Maltby
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Rendered brick with some green sandstone rubble; lead roofs behind parapets
- Grid reference
- TF 310 847
- Opening hours
- Open daily dawn to dusk.
- Access
- Level access throughout
Overview
Historic England dates the church to 1839 by W. A. Nicholson, reusing some late-thirteenth-century fragments. Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer notes a late-thirteenth-century north arcade retained from the medieval church, a sister rebuild to Haugham paid for by the Revd Henry Chaplin, and a chancel restoration of 1883 by C. H. Fowler. The fabric is rendered brick with some green sandstone rubble; lead roofs are hidden behind high parapets or battlements. The plan is a west tower, nave with north aisle and south porch, and a chancel with polygonal east end, with pinnacles and an ornate openwork parapet.
Wikipedia records a fifteenth-century font and some sixteenth-century imported glass. Heritage Explorer describes eleven stained-glass roundels, ten Netherlandish and one German, of the fifteenth century and late sixteenth to early seventeenth century. The parish is Raithby cum Maltby.