St Swithin's Vestry - Free School Lane, Lincoln, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 53° 13.755 W 000° 32.270
30U E 664346 N 5900602
St Swithin's Vestry, built in Gothic Revival style in 1888, stands across Free School Lane to the west of St Swithin's church and adjacent to the church's former graveyard.
Waymark Code: WM11J4M
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/30/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member jhuoni
Views: 3

The vestry is Grade II listed with the entry at the Historic England website describing it thus:

Former vestry meeting room, now a social centre, and adjoining wall. 1888. Possibly by James Fowler of Louth. Paid for by the Shuttleworth family. Rockfaced ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Gothic Revival style. Chamfered plinth and sill band, impost band and hoodmould, coped east gable with kneelers and finials. Windows have hoodmoulds. Single storey plus attics, 2 bays. East gable has central ogee headed doorway flanked by single leaded windows. Above, an inscribed band and a single window. South side, double gabled, has a 3-light window with transom, and a pointed arched doorway.

INTERIOR not inspected. To left, a wall with slab coping, approx. 20m long, with a square corner pier and a pointed arched doorway to the left.

Public/Private: Private

Tours Available?: No

Year Built: 1888

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