Church of St Hybald, Scawby

Heritage listing

Details SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY CHURCH STREET (north side, off) 19/81 Church of St Hybald 6.11.67 GV II * Parish church. C13-C15 tower; west tower entrance, nave, aisles and chancel of 1842-43 by W A Nicholson, with alterations of 1870s by James Fowler of Louth. 1842-43 rebuilding in C13 style. Tower of squared limestone and rubble with galleted joints, ashlar dressings and parapet; remainder in dressed limestone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. West tower with west entrance, 5-bay aisled nave with 3-bay arcades and south porch, 3-bay chancel. 2-stage tower: quoins, moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets. Tall first stage has inserted pointed shafted door with hood-mould and shafted lancet above, original round-headed single-light west and south windows with monolithic heads, moulded string course. Stepped-in second stage: 4-centred arch 2-light cinquefoiled belfry openings with hood-moulds. Moulded string course with pairs of gargoyles to north and south sides, coped embattled parapet. Chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses and corbel- table to nave, aisles and chancel. Lancets to clerestory; shafted lancets with hood-moulds to aisles; pointed shafted south door and shafted twin east lancet with hood-mould to chancel. Porch: pointed chamfered outer arch with hood-mould and headstops, pointed chamfered inner arch. Interior. Nave arcades of pointed double-chamfered arches with hood-moulds on octagonal piers and keeled responds with engaged shafts and moulded capitals, (bases obscured by flooring). Tower open to nave, with panelled organ-gallery front bearing good C19 painted cast metal coat of arms. Double-chamfered chancel arch of filleted responds with engaged shafts. Shafted east window with hood-mould and headstops. 3-bay single hammer-beam chancel roof; 5-ba

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.