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St Giles, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Location
(53°14′34″N, 0°31′15″W)
Lincoln
SK 988 728
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Lincolnshire
now Lincolnshire
medieval St Peter
now St Giles
  • Thomas E. Russo
  • Thomas E. Russo
13 July 1996

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Feature Sets
Description

St Giles stands in Lamb Gardens to the NE of the city centre. The church was built in 1936 by W. G. Watson who reused material from St. Peter-at-Arches, which had been built by William Smith c.1720-24 and was demolished in 1930. Comparing Watson's church with Grimm's drawing of Smith's church shows that the 20thc architect produced a copy of the 18thc church in brick rather than stone. It may be that the medieval church of St Peter at Arches, which was certainly in existence by the late-12thc., also provided material used in St Giles. Watson's church is built of brick in a neo-classical style, with a W tower, aisled nave, a chancel with and apse and a vestry. The arch leading into the N chapel, L of the apse, and some reset voussoirs over the door leading into the sacristy are Romanesque.

History

There was certainly a medieval church of St Peter at Arches, which was in existence by the 12thc, and arguably in the 11thc. (see Hill, 131-32).

Features

Interior Features

Arches

Interior Decoration

Miscellaneous
Comments/Opinions

Given the reuse of material from the 18thc. church of St. Peter-at-Arches, which in turn had replaced the medieval church of the same name, it is most probable that both the chapel arch and the reset voussoirs above the sacristy door came from the destroyed medieval church. However, Pevsner (1964, 143) reports that they come from the old Hospital of St Giles. This seems unlikely as that was a 13thc foundation.

Bibliography
  1. F. Hill, Medieval Lincoln, Cambridge 1965, 131-32.

Historic England Listed Building. English Heritage Legacy ID: 486059

Lincolnshire Historic Environment Record MLI89659

  1. N. Pevsner and J. Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1964, 143.
  1. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1990, 497.