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Summary

The Church of All Saints has an 11th century tower and nave. Grade 1 listed.

Monument Types

• ANGLICAN CHURCH (EMED:AS:C11/MED:C13,C14/PM, Early Medieval/Dark Age to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1399 AD)

Protected Status

• Listed Building (I) 1117004: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

Associated Finds

• HUMAN REMAINS (Unknown date)
• HUMAN REMAINS (Unknown date)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Early Medieval/Dark Age to Post Medieval - 970 AD to 1900 AD)
• ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
• FLOOR TILE (Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 2050 AD)
• WINDOW GLASS (Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 2050 AD)
• UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1801 AD to 1899 AD)
• CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1840 AD to 1880 AD)
• MEDICINE BOTTLE (Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1880 AD to 1920 AD)

Associated Events

• All Saints Church, Winterton
• Geotechnical pits, All Saint's Church, Winterton
• Heritage Assessment, Land Off North Street, Winterton (Ref: WINS 14)
• Archaeological Excavation, All Saints Church, Winterton
• Watching Brief, Archaeological Observation and Recording, All Saints Church, Winterton 2014 - 2018
• Laser Survey and Rectified Photography, All Saints Church, Winterton 2014 & 2016
• Photogrammetric Survey of Tower, All Saints Church, Winterton 2018

Full description

All Saints Church, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Early English, 13th-15th cent., some 19th and early 20th cent. restoration (Pevsner 1964, 424-5 Taylor and Taylor 1965, ii, 674-5, fig. 344). Three med. floor tiles and fragments of two others from church in SM, WNT CH. [1]

SE 9218-9318 WINTERTON CHURCH SIDE (north side)
9/48 Church of All Saints
6.11.67
GV II
Church. Mid Cll tower and nave, early-mid C13 nave aisles, transepts and upper stage to tower, later C13 chancel, C14 south door and windows to aisles and transepts. Mid C17 restorations, C18 north porch. C19 vestry. Restorations 1903-4 by C. Hodgeson Fowler included addition of nave clerestory and tower parapet, rebuilding chancel gable and re-roofing and re-flooring throughout. Engaged west tower flanked by aisles, 3-bay aisled nave with north and south porches, 2-bay north and south transepts, 3-bay chancel with 2-bay vestry adjoining north side. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. 4-stage tower: plinth, quoins and chamfered string courses to first 3 stages. Tall first stage has west door with low arched lintel and later lancet above. Stepped-in second stage has twin round-headed belfry openings with cylindrical mid-wall shafts and cushion capitals. Circular sound-holes to 3rd stage, obscured on south by C19 clockface. 4th stage has tall twin pointed belfry openings with nook shafts and central chamfered shaft. C20 corbel table, spouts and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. West ends of aisles flanking tower have chamfered plinth, buttresses, moulded cillband and pointed 3-light windows with intersecting tracery. South aisle: chamfered plinth, buttresses, square-headed windows of 2 and 3 trefoiled lights, North aisle: blocked square opening, C18 lancet, 3-light pointed window with intersecting tracery. Transepts: plinth, quoins, moulded cillband; 2 east lancets, those to north and south with hoodmoulds; 4-light north and south windows with Curvilinear tracery and hoodmoulds. Chancel: chamfered plinth, angle and mid buttresses; 2 lancets to north and south, plate-traceried south window with 2-lights and circle above, pointed chamfered priest's door, all with hoodmoulds and carved stops; C20 pointed 3-light east window and pinnacled gable. Vestry has lancets and pointed north door with oval light above. North porch has blocked pointed door, pedimented gable and pointed interior vault. South porch: pointed outer arch with inner shafted order, flanked by pair of trefoiled niches with a third in C20 rebuilt gable above. Pointed inner door of 2 shafted orders with roll-moulded arch: ogee-headed niche above with ornate carved base and crocketed canopy flanked by pinnacled buttresses. Original door with ornate strap hinges. Interior. Narrow round-headed windows to north and south sides of tower; round-headed tower arch with a narrow flat-headed doorway above. Nave arcades of double- chamfered pointed arches with hoodmoulds and carved headstops on octagonal piers with moulded bases, finely-carved foliate capitals (one C19) and bold mid-shaft collars, keeled to north, dog-tooth moulded to south. Keeled and triple-shafted west responds; broad filleted responds to east, with a plain moulded capital to south and a re-used Romanesque capital to north with animal carving. South transept: dog-tooth hoodmould to one lancet; rectangular aumbry and pointed chamfered piscina. Similar piscina to north transept. Pointed chamfered chancel arch of 3 orders on filleted responds; plain moulded capital to north, foliate capital to south. Restored piscina to chancel. Mutilated brass in chancel floor to John Rudd and two wives, of 1504; carved stone tablet on south wall to Peter Gering 1590, with arms and full achievement. Late C18-early C19 marble wall tablets in chancel and south aisle. Present font C19; earlier font in south transept has octagonal bowl on re-used foliate capital with nailhead moulding to abacus. N. Pevsner and J. Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 424-5; H. & J. Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, Volume 2, 1965, 674-5. Drawing by C Nattes, 1794, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.
Listing NGR: SE9282718589 [2]

The church contains two plaques commemorating the war dead of the parish. The plaque for 1914-18 is an ornate carved wooden board, inscribed with 21 names. The plaque for 1939-45 is plain oak, and has 16 names. [3]

Gazetteer entry c. 1986. [4]

Archaeological observation and recording of a 2m wide inspection pit within the churchyard was carried out in April 2012. The pit was dug to investigate a leaking lead water pipe. No archaeological deposits of significance were encountered. [5]

Archaeological assessment report, produced by Prospect Archaeology Ltd in order to assess the impact of proposed internal reordering and construction of an extension. A brief summary of the historical background of the church was included, together with the itemised proposals and an assessment of the potential impacts on the fabric and archaeology of the church, based on the results of the geotechnical investigations undertaken in July 2012 and May 2013. [6]

Heritage Statement, submitted as part of the planning application for internal re-ordering and new extension, 2014. [7]

Statement of Significance, compiled by the architects and submitted as part of the planning application for internal re-ordering and new extension, 2014. [8]

Archaeological mitigations strategy, prepared by Prospect Archaeology Ltd on behalf of the Winterton Parochial Church Council, 2014. [9]

A short report on the archaeological monitoring carried out within the church, 2014. Substantial foundations were recorded within the aisle walls, probably a pre-13th century phase. [10, 11]

A document compiled in 1566 includes a list of church furniture and other items that were deliberately destroyed at this church during the reformation. [12]

All Saints Church has an example of a ‘Lincolnshire Tower’, a distinct class of bell tower constructed during the 40 years after the Norman conquest. The church and tower is much discussed by Stocker and Everson in their survey of the 51 Lincolnshire churches with these Romanesque towers. The tower at Winterton is one of only three Lincolnshire Towers which had double bell chambers, the other two being at Alkborough and St Peter. [13]

Fieldwork for an archaeological excavation comprised the excavation in the nave, aisles, transepts and tower of the church in advance of replacement of pews and the insertion of underfloor heating. Three broad phases of activity were recorded during the archaeological works including nave walls, likely to be of late 11th century date, findings suggesting an earlier church was present on site prior to the 13th century and earlier walls likely of similar date to the Saxon/Norman Romanesque part of the tower. Human remains post-dating the earliest use of the church were encountered within a disturbed grave in the tower and a potential grave in the north aisle. Much of the early archaeology was disturbed by later 19th or early 20th century heating systems and a box pew platform. [14]

A laser survey of the church exterior, except for the tower, was carried out in 2014. The interior was surveyed in 2016 except for the interior of the tower. Both the north porch and the chancel were excluded from the current phase of refurbishment as they were not part of the programme of works. [15]

Field, N., 2019, All Saints Church, Winterton, N. Lincs Appendix 1: Archaeological Observation and Recording 2014-2016 (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS7886.

<1> Loughlin, N and Miller, KR, 1979, A Survey of Archaeological Sites in Humberside, 223 (BOOK). SLS523.

<2> English Heritage/NMR, 2005, Listed building system data in MIDAS XML format, 442397 (COMPUTER DISK/TAPE). SLS2963.

<3> UK National Inventory of War Memorials, 51845, 51846 (WEBSITE). SLS4370.

<4> John Wood, 1986, A Gazetteer of Norman Architecture (GAZETTEER). SLS5102.

<5> E. Dennison, 2012, All Saints Church, Winterton, North Lincolnshire - report on archaeological watching brief (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS5335.

<6> Field, N., 2013, All Saints Church, Winterton, North Lincolnshire Proposals for Improved Facilities, Archaeological Assessment (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS6530.

<7> Brian Foxley, 2014, Heritage Statement Faculty Design Summary (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS6531.

<8> Brian Foxley, 2014, Statement of Significance: Winterton All Saints (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS6532.

<9> Field, N., 2013, All Saints Church, Winterton North Lincolnshire, Proposals for Improved Facilities Archaeological Mitigation (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS6533.

<10> Winterton PCC, 2014, Surprising finds at All Saints' Church (EXTRACT - CUTTING OR COPY FROM PUBLISHED WORK). SLS6918.

<11> Helen Fry, 2014, Photographs of archaeological excavation 2014 , All Saints, Winterton (PHOTOGRAPH - DIGITAL). SLS6919.

<12> Edward Peacock, Ed, 1866, English Church Furniture at the Period of the Reformation, 164-165 (BOOK). SLS7105.

<13> Stocker, D and Everson, P, 2006, Summoning St Michael: Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire, 286-293, Index 315 (BOOK). SLS6553.

<14> Stockdale, M. & Johnson, F., 2019, Archaeological Scheme of Works Report: All Saints Church, Winterton, North Lincolnshire (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS7885.

<15> Field, N., 2019, All Saints Church, Winterton, N. Lincs Appendix 1: Archaeological Observation and Recording 2014-2016 (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS7886.

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