Church of St Mary and All the Saints

Heritage listing

Details TL 4070, 11/141 WILLINGHAM, CHURCH STREET (north side), Church of St. Mary and All Saints 31.08.62 GV I Parish church, mainly early C14, with South aisle and spire restored 1825 and general restoration of 1891. Coursed limestone, and limestone rubble with dressed stone to quoins. Some clunch. Tiled nave roof, and stone slates to sacristy roof; the roofs of the chancel and South aisle are obscured by parapets. West tower, nave, North and South aisles, south porch, chancel and sacristy. West tower with broach spire, early C14. Coursed limestone. Tower of three stages, embattled on double-splayed plinth with five-stage angle buttressing. Restored fenestration. Main cornice with frieze of boss ornament and corner turrets with pinnacles surmounted by finials. C14, three-stage broach spire; also of limestone ashlar, each with gabled lucerne to each side and buttressed from the corner turrets. The buttresses have running ornament to the upper edge and pierced tracery in the spandrels. Nave of coursed rubblestone, with dressed limestone to the quoins. Each side of clerestory has three windows, each with two cinquefoil lights in square head. Parapetted south aisle of similar date to nave, early C14, with restored reticulated tracery, except for C13 window possibly surviving from an earlier church in the west wall. Large grotesque gargoyles to main cornice. The South porch is of similar date, rebuilt 1896 with gabled parapetted roof and mutilated corner pinnacles with finials and niche of clunch. Below is outer two centred arch, restored at base. Half-round engaged columns to responds, with moulded capitals, the shafts of the columns having a large fillet. Inner arch also early C14 of continuous hollow and roll-moulded orders. The walls of the porch incorporate fragments

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.