Description

LINCOLN

SK9871NW SEWELL ROAD
1941-1/10/330 (North side)
02/10/69 Chapel at St Anne's Bedehouses

GV II

Bedehouse chapel. c1853. By W Butterfield for R W Sibthorp.
Brick with stone dressings and plain tile roof. Early English
style.
PLAN: nave and chancel under continuous roof topped with a
fleche, vestry, south porch.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and sill band, cogged eaves, coped
east gable and porch.
Nave and chancel, 4 bays, has on either side 2 chamfered
pointed arched recesses with 3-light and 4-light pointed
arched windows. To east, a diaper work cross. East end has a
3-light pointed arched window with hoodmould. Each gable has a
truncated lancet in the peak. Octagonal wooden fleche has an
arcaded bell stage and leaded spire with weathercock.
Lean-to vestry has 2 single lancets to east and a large side
wall stack.
South porch has single flanking buttresses and chamfered
doorway with roll mould, with shafts and hoodmould with stops.
Above it, a figure panel. Inside, stone benches and common
rafter roof with collars. Double roll moulded inner doorway
with hoodmould and corbels. Above it, a segment headed recess
containing a cross with Latin inscription.
INTERIOR, rendered, has original polychromatic decoration, now
painted over. All-over waggon roof with corbels at east end.
Moulded sill band, with trefoil band in chancel. Nave windows
have fragments of stained glass in the heads. Chancel north
side has a stained glass window, C19, and to its right, a
doorway and a segmental pointed recess with figure. East
window 1954, by Comper. Small aumbry to south-east.
FITTINGS include traceried oak stalls and desks with
bookstands and candlesticks. Organ in panelled case. Benches
with shaped ends.
MEMORIALS include 8 brasses in tiled surrounds, late C19, by
Waller, mainly to members of the Sibthorp family.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 511).

Listing NGR: SK9849071765

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668223

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas