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Summary

Church of Holy Ascension. Built in 1867, on the site of at least two earlier churches.

Monument Types

• ANGLICAN CHURCH (PM:C19:1867, Post Medieval to Modern - 1867 AD to 2050 AD)

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1204679: CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION

Associated Finds - None

Associated Events

• Desk based assessment in advance of quarrying proposals at Melton Ross Quarries (Ref: MRQ 03)

Full description

MELTON ROSS A 18 HUMBERSIDE GLANFORD 5264 TA 01 SE (north side) 6/29 Church of the Holy 6/11/67 Ascension - II Parish church. 1867 by Ewan Christian, incorporating masonry from earlier medieval and C18 churches. Chancel decorated in 1890 by Messrs W O Powell of London and Lincoln; nave decorated in 1895. Limestone and ironstone ashlar. Westmorland slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 3-bay nave with south porch and west bell-cote, single-bay apsidal chancel with vestry adjoining north side. Nave: plinth, buttresses; 2-light and 3-light segmental pointed traceried windows; west side has single traceried lancets either side of a central buttress supporting a projecting bell-cote with twin shouldered-arch opening and pierced roundel above, coped gable and ashlar cross finial. Chancel: stepped plinth, sill stringcourse; single and twin trefoiled lancets with hood-moulds. Porch: angle buttresses, pointed shafted outer arch of 2 orders. Interior. Pointed moulded chancel arch on shafted responds with foliate capitals. Collared scissor-beam nave roof, ribbed vaulted chancel roof. Chancel arch, roofs and frieze at top of nave wall all have rich polychrome painted decoration. Late C18 and early C19 marble wall tablets to Holgate family at west end of nave. Ornate C19 font. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, p 315; Stamford Mercury, 9 January 1891, p3.
Listing NGR: TA0714710748 [1]

The church contains a framed and glazed Roll Of Honour commemmorating those who served, 1914-18. [2]

Research by Geoff Bryant on the earlier churches on the same site :

'At Melton Ross a new church was built in 1773 because, we are told, the existing one was too big for the remaining parishioners and was so 'decayed in the Walls & Roof, it can't by any means be supported or repaired but must be entirely taken down & rebuilt'. One would like to know whether this latter statement was strictly true or whether the statement, 'the existing church is old-fashioned' would have been nearer the mark. A faculty was granted and the pleasant Georgian building drawn by Claude Nattes in 1795 was completed. However, by 1867 fashions had changed and that building was variously described as 'modern ... but mean, and far too small, or an 'unecclesiastical structure', 'in some respects unfit for the performance of divine worship'. In the last reference one suspects that 'unfit' was a euphemism for classical, and therefore pagan. So it was pulled down and replaced with the present Gothic building designed by Ewan Christian - 'a larger and more appropriate successor'. Was it really necessary to pull down either of these churches? Probably not. But in their day they were both out of fashion and so were swept away and replaced with buildings more 'prestigious' to the parish.' [3]

<1> English Heritage/NMR, 2005, Listed building system data in MIDAS XML format, 165932 (COMPUTER DISK/TAPE). SLS2963.

<2> UK National Inventory of War Memorials, 34850 (WEBSITE). SLS4370.

<3> Tyszka, D, Miller, K, & Bryant, G, 1991, Land, People and Landscapes, 24, Fig 7 (BOOK). SLS4232.

Sources and further reading

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