Nominal: 1641 Hz Weight: 214 lbs Diameter: 21" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1910
Dove Bell ID: 52457 Tower ID: 19218 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Cleethorpes: St Aidan
Overview
Grid reference: TA 293 98
This is a large straightforward building in the Perpendicular style. The west wall has a big window of six transomed lights with panel tracery with intersecting ribs which group the lights three and three. Below it is a central buttress incorporating the foundation stone. Buttresses also divided the aisles from the nave, and the aisles have two-light west windows.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Nave of five and a half bays with aisles and clerestory, north and south porches at the west end; chancel of three bays with north Lady Chapel and south organ chamber under their own gables; low clergy vestry to the east under the east window.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church was designed by Charles Hodgson Fowler and the foundation stone was laid on 4 May 1905 by Bishop Edward King of Lincoln. It was one of the churches built in deprived areas of the Diocese under the aegis of Bishop King, and one of several erected within the old parish of Grimsby. Fowler (1840-1910) was the son of the Vicar of Rollaston, Nottinghamshire, and a pupil of Gilbert Scott with whom he worked on the restoration of Durham Cathedral in 1874-6. He was throughout his life an active church builder and ecclesiologist, becoming architect to Rochester Cathedral and later Lincoln Minster and acting also as diocesan architect in York and Durham. His long list of works includes churches in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and County Durham and numerous designs for screens, reredoses and other furnishings.
Exterior Description
This is a large straightforward building in the Perpendicular style. The west wall has a big window of six transomed lights with panel tracery with intersecting ribs which group the lights three and three. Below it is a central buttress incorporating the foundation stone. Buttresses also divided the aisles from the nave, and the aisles have two-light west windows. The flanking walls have three light windows with straight heads in each bay and the clerestory windows are similar. The porches have gables banded with stone and brick open arches which have mouldings dying into the responds. There is another doorway in the east bay of the north aisle.
Nave and chancel are under one long roof with the division marked externally by a fleche on the ridge. The clerestory to the chancel is similar to that of the nave, but is hidden by the separately gabled roofs of the north Lady Chapel and south organ chamber and choir vestry. Both these run further east than the chancel wall and between them, below the east window, the clergy vestry is covered by a pent roof with a small polygonal apse in the middle capped by a hipped roof. The choir vestry has two two-light rectangular windows in the east wall, perhaps to suggest its semi-secular nature, and the Lady Chapel has a three-light east window with a two-centred moulded arch. The east window of the chancel has five lights with ogee cusped heads, the middle one slightly taller than the others, and panel tracery with intersecting ribs which divide the lights two-one-two.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
1918
One light in the south aisle of St. Aidan, possibly with the features of Bishop King, by Jones and Willis.
Stained Glass
c.1922
Two lights in the Lady Chapel representing St. Luke and St. Damian by A.K. Nicholson.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior is equally austere and dignified, with walls of exposed brickwork and details executed in stone. The arcades have octagonal pillars with embattled capitals and double-chamfered arches. The arcades between the chancel and its north and south subsidiary spaces are of a different, earlier, type with semi-circular shafts attached to chamfered responds. The floor in the nave is of wood blocks and the stone paving in the chancel is two steps higher. Apart from this and the light iron screen there is no apparent division between the two vessels. The ceilings are boarded with pine boards, the nave being divided into rectangular panels by moulded ribs but the chancel having parallel ribs following the profile of the roof. The nave has tie-beams at each bay with arch braces above, except for the west bay which, to avoid breaking the tracery design of the window, has an iron tie between hammerbeams. Below the west window a relieving arch in the wall frames the font.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
c.1905
The altar is a long panelled oak table with minimal foliate decoration, probably c.1905 by Hodgson Fowler.
Pulpit
The pulpit is a yellow oak hexagon; an oak relief of The Resurrection seventeenth century and probably Continental, is fixed to the front panel.
Lectern
The lectern is an oak pedestal
Font (object)
1920
The font has an octagonal stone bowl on a drum and four marble colonettes.
Organ (object)
The organ is a two-manual instrument.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: TA 293 98
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
Further information
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