Wood Enderby: St Benedict
Overview
Grid reference: TF 273 641
The tower and spire are of Ancaster stone, as are the dressings to the nave and chancel windows. The walls of nave and chancel are of Lincolnshire Greensand, and the roofs are slated.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
West tower with spire, three-bay nave with north aisle, chancel with north vestry. The entrance is in the ground floor of the tower.
Description of Archaeology and History
By George Hackford, whose only other church appears to have been in Boston. Wood Enderby was built in 1860, but incorporates substantial parts of an earlier, mediaeval building
Exterior Description
The tower and spire are of Ancaster stone, as are the dressings to the nave and chancel windows. The walls of nave and chancel are of Lincolnshire Greensand, and the roofs are slated.
The tower, of two stages, has angle buttresses with little gablets at the terminations just below the spire. In the south face is the doorway to the church, of Early English style with a moulded arch and attached nook shafts. The West face has a three-light window with geometric tracery of two trefoils and a cinquefoil, but the north face is blind.
The walls of the nave are still mainly mediaeval up to the eaves, with small buttresses dividing the bays and renewed plate-traceried windows of two lights with circlet in the head. The slate roofing is severe in colour and the greensand walls contrast with the pale grey of the nineteenth-century tower and spire.
The chancel evidently dates from a later period than the nave, as far as the windows are concerned. These have ogee-headed lights with pointed quatrefoils as tracery, the arch being virtually triangular rather than four-centred. The east window has three lights, but follows the pattern. On the gable above is a heavy foliated cross.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
The east window shows Christ with Mary Magdalene in the garden.
Stained Glass
The south and west windows have brightly coloured grisaille with texts on scrolls.
Interior
Interior Description
The length is emphasized in the low interior which, as a result of the small windows, is quite dark. The north arcade has round arches upon alternately quadripartite and octagonal piers with stylised stiff-leaf capitals of conventional pattern above the latter and moulded capitals above the former. The vestry door which opens from the east end of the north aisle has a Caernarvon head. The chancel arch dies into the walls each side without imposts. The nave roof is a kingpost type, rather thin, and the wide chancel roof has no braces or struts at all.
The windows internally have flattened triangular heads except for those in the north aisle which have rectangular reveals. All the furnishings are nineteenth-century, the pews with big unembellished poppyheads.
Fixtures and fittings
Pulpit
19th Century
The pulpit is a nineteenth-century design, of wood. The arcaded semi octagonal upper part rests upon a stone stiff-leaf capital.
Font (object)
19th Century
The font is a nondescript nineteenth-century design.
Piscina (object)
A Norman capital piscina upon a shaft is built into the south chancel wall within the Communion Rails.
Churchyard
Grid reference: TF 273 641
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 | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
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.
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