ST HELEN, THORNEY
St Helen, Thorney is a Grade II* listed building achieving the status on 16 January 1967.
The church was built in 1850 by L N Cottingham. The layout consists of a nave, chancel, vestry and west turret with two hemispherical bells.
The West end has a central round arched doorway with two banks of windows above, one shaped like a wheel. The bells are then above this window.
The nave has three bays and four buttresses with three paired round headed windows.
The vestry is single bayed with a coped gable.
The chancel has two bays with a single north window.
The font was built at the same time as the church but the remains of a C12th font from a previous church stood on this site can be seen to the south side of the existing font.
The pulpit and lecturn are elaborately carved from stone with polished granite at the centre.
The pews and choir stalls are simple oak designs with C20th wall memorial tablets close by.
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