St_Wulfram's_Church,_Grantham
St Wulfram's Church, Grantham
Parish church in Lincolnshire, England
St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, is the Anglican parish church of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. The church is a Grade I listed building and has the second tallest spire in Lincolnshire after St James' Church, Louth.[2]
In his book England's Thousand Best Churches, Simon Jenkins begins his description of St Wulfram's: "Here is the finest steeple in England",[4] and in 2020 an online contest run by poet Jay Hulme named it as the finest non-cathedral English church.[5]
The spire, at 274 feet (84 m), is the sixth highest in the country (Salisbury, Norwich and Old Coventry Cathedrals' are higher), and third highest of any parish church, after the Church of St Walburge, Preston, and St James' Church, Louth. It is the second highest of any Anglican parish church in the UK, after St James', and second highest in Lincolnshire, after St James'.[citation needed]
In 2013 an appeal was launched to save the spire.[6]