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DELAPIDATION REPORT 1831
A report of delapidation in the chancel of the Prebendary church of Caistor and also the chancel of the Parochial chapels of Clixby and Holton le Moor, belonging to the Prebend of Caistor, made by order of His Grace the Duke of St Albans, lessee of the Prebendal estates.
CAISTOR CHURCH
The chancel is an antient fabric, built of rough stone, measuring withinside 17 feet in breadth, and 30 feet in length. The north and south aisle of the church extend along the sides of the chancel to about half its length, and open into it by two large arches. The roof is modern covered with Westmorland blue slate, and ridged with stone. The walls are plastered within, and the roof is closed up by a flat ceiling of plaster.
The east end has a large window, arched and mullioned with stone, containing five lights, the glass set in lead. There are two similar windows of less size in the side walls, each two lights in breadth. The floor is of red brick, with stone steps to the communion rail.
Delapidation - The inside is very clean and neat, and the fabric altogether in tolerable repair. The principal delapidations are these:- The south -east quion has given way, and there are several cracks in the east wall, owing to the sinking of the foundations, the hill on which the church is built sinking very abruptly beyond the end of the chancel; but none of these cracks are large or threaten any speedy ruin. The addition of one or two buttresses would be the best means of preventing any further sinking of the walls. The jambs of the south windows are mouldered on the outside, and the other windows are rather decayed in the stonework on the outside.
CLIXBY
The chapel is reduced to what was originally the chancel to which a small bell tower has been added, at the west end; but the foundations shew that there has been a nave, with north and south aisles, which are all now demolished. The tower is very rudely built with stone, and covered with tiles; the roof, and the gables to it, being much out of repair. The rest of the fabric has wall of antient and firm stonework with two arched windows, each of two lights in breadth, and one of a single light, on the south side. The east end has a window three lights wide, imperfect at the top and covered with a wooden lintle in place of the original arch and tracery. The roof is flat and covered with lead, and is in bad condition, the rain penetrating it in several places, and the timber and boards under the lead
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