Church of St Guthlac

Heritage listing

Details TF 34 SE FISHTOFT CLAMP GATE ROAD (east side) 12/23 Church of St. Guthlac 26.1.67 G.V. I Parish church. C12, late C13, C14, C15, 1853 restoration and vestry addition. Limestone ashlar, some render, lead and decorative tiled roofs. Clerestoried nave, aisles, western tower, chancel, south porch, vestry. 3 stage C15 tower with moulded plinth, 2 string courses, embattled parapet and stepped corner buttresses with blank shields. Belfry stage has single louvred openings with hollow chamfered surrounds. Middle stage single 2 light windows with quatrefoils and trefoil heads. On the south side a grotesque pig mask on a common wall stone. to the west a continuously moulded door surround with hood having human head stops. Above a 4 light window with brattished transom and hollow chamfered surround. Above again is a niche containing a carving of a saint beneath a crocketed canopy. C15 north aisle having large 3 light windows, triangular headed to the west, all with panel tracery, also a continuously moulded triangular headed doorway. Clerestory of 5 matching 3 light windows. To the north east angle of the nave is a stair turret with short spire and crocket. C12 rendered chancel with pilaster buttresses, now with C15 parapet. In the north wall a single round headed C12 light is flanked by single C15 3 light windows with panel tracery. In the east wall of the C19 vestry is a further reset C12 window. Splendid late C13 east window of 5 lights having 3 geometric circular panels to the head. On the south side are 2 C15 windows and a C12 shafted doorway with scalloped capitals and chamfered reveals, with immediately above a tall late C13 lancet with moulded hood. In the parapet a section of C12 carving with 3 small round heads. In the east wall of the south aisle can be seen a bl

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.