St Peter & St Paul, Scremby
St Peter & St Paul, Scremby
St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II* Georgian parish church on Cooks Lane, Scremby, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln.
- Location
- Scremby, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Scremby
- Address
- Scremby, Lincolnshire, PE23 5RP
- Postcode
- PE23 5RP
- Built
- 1733; restored 1884
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter and Paul
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Scremby
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Georgian
- Materials
- Red brick in Flemish bond with greenstone ashlar dressings; copper roofs
- Grid reference
- TF 443 677
- Opening hours
- Open by arrangement.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of 1733 in red brick laid in Flemish bond with greenstone ashlar dressings and copper roofs. The plan is a three-stage western tower, nave and facetted chancel. The tower has a plinth, three stone bands to the offset upper stages, and a parapet with corner pilasters. The west door of twelve panels sits in a Gibbsian surround with pulvinated frieze and pediment, with a semi-circular leaded light above in a rusticated ashlar surround. Nave side walls have ashlar quoins, a brick plinth, an ashlar band and two semi-circular headed leaded lights; the east end of the chancel has a Venetian window in a flat ashlar surround.
Inside, a western gallery has a panelled face and a nineteenth-century rail. Nave and chancel are undifferentiated under a continuous deeply moulded cornice. The facetted chancel walls each have two moulded plaster panels. Fittings include dado panelling throughout, a complete set of panelled pews and a matching pulpit with fluted Doric pilasters. A chair is made from two fifteenth-century poppy-head bench ends; the octagonal font on a moulded base is also fifteenth-century. The stained-glass east window is by O'Connor, 1861. Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer records a restoration of 1884.