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Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas

View from the south-west.  When Pevsner described the church in the first edition of his Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1964) there was "a bell-turret of wood, projecting on a bracket beyond the west wall."

September 2013

Spanby, St Nicholas, bell turret
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas

The church is a red brick building of 1881 consisting of nave and apsaidal chancel.

An inner doorway has fragments of 14th century work from an earlier church.

Declared redundant in 1973.

September 2013

Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas

Church being converted into a private residence.

Kelly's Directory 1919 states "The church of St. Nicholas, rebuilt in 1882, at a cost of £765, is a small building of red brick with red Ancaster stone dressings in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, west porch and a bell turret containing one bell : there are 65 sittings"

DB 4 July 2022

Spanby, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas

White's Directory 1856, before the church was rebuilt in 1882, reported that :-

"The Church (St. Nicholas,) is a low small structure, which has been of larger dimensions. The rectory is united with the vicarage of Swaton. A yearly modus of about 4s. IOd. per acre is paid in lieu of tithes"

DB 4 July 2022

Spanby, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas
Spanby, St Nicholas

"Former parish church, now shed. C14 and 1882. Red brick in English bond, some limestone ashlar dressings, plain tiled roof with raised stone coped gables. Narthex, nave with bellcote and apsidal chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061737?section=official-list-entry 

Reported locally that the font was removed many years ago and is now doing duty as a garden ornament elsewhere.

DB 4 July 2022

Spanby, Saint Nicholas Church, image