Church of St Wulfram Grantham, United Kingdom
Listed Building Data
Church of St Wulfram has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1062501
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 8 May 1950
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST WULFRAM
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST WULFRAM
- District
- South Kesteven
- County
- Lincolnshire
- Grid Reference
- SK 91498 36145
- Easting
- 491498.0000
- Northing
- 336145.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SK 9136 SW GRANTHAM
607/7/1 Church of St Wulfram
08.05.1950 I
196 x 75 feet. Probable Salisbury influence. North aisle arcades, except for the 2 west bays, date from before 1180. North aisle rebuilt circa 1250. 1550 South aisle lengthened and Lady Chapel built, 1450 North aisle extended. St. Katherine's Chapel added after 1496 by the Hall family, Church restored by Sir G G Scott 1866-75. Of special interest are window frames of various periods, use of ballflower ornament, crypt chapel. North porch built to house saints' relics, and chaired library (circa 1598) over South porch formerly a priests' living room. Chief feature is the slender crocketed spire which stands 282 feet 6 inches from the ground to top of cross. Tabernacles with statues of cherubims above small broaches, are distinct from 4 lower lucarres with ballflower, second tier of lucarres open in diagonals, blank in main directions, reversed in top tier. Photograph in N.M.R.
Listing NGR: SK9149836145
