This monument in the chancel is to Sir Robert Christopher (died 1668) and his wife.

December 2014

"South side of chancel has ornate marble monument to Thomas and Car. Williamson, 1690"

"Plaque of 1656 to Robert Clarke"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062909 

Church Guide states that it was Rev'd Robert Clarke, Rector here from 1616 to 1656, who repaired the south wall with brick, at his own expense, the cost being £108.

Also during his time the Jacobean pulpit and the Jacobean front of the gallery were installed.

DB 3 November 2018

Welby family monuments.

DB 3 November 2018

"Grey and white marble monument with urn to John Emeris, died 1835"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063076 

DB 8 September 2019

Arthur Mee states :-

"For a hundred years St Adelwold's church was closed and neglected, but in 1933 it was beautifully restored in memory of Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, MP, who died in 1916.

DB 8 September 2019

Within the porch stand two 14th century grave covers depicting priests. This one has his hands clasped in prayer.

May 2015

Monument to Captain William Kent Allix, who fell at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War.

Mark Acton, 2016

Monuments and tablets honouring parish clergy are common in churches. This prominent memorial in the Anwick church commemorating Henry Ashington is unusual in that he died in France, presumably on holiday.

April 2018

Memorial to Midshipman Alfred Angelo Ashington, son of the Vicar of Anwick, who died along with some 480 other members of the crew of HMS Captain which sank on 7 September 1870. It is located in the north aisle.

Mark Acton, 2018

"In the south aisle a wall plaque to Gerard Gardiner, d.1742, debased Corinthian columns supporting a segmental pediment with fluted keyblock, cherub and flaming urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061829 

DB 21 December 2018

This effigy of a knight, lying cross-legged, dates from the early 14th century.

It is located on the south side of the church near the west end.

August 2014

The monument to Suzanna Drury, who died in 1606, is on the north wall of the chancel.

The details of the surround tally with the Jacobean date, but the effigy and also the hounds which support the sarcophagus lid and wreaths are considered to be replacements dating from c.1700 (Pevsner).

August 2014

The two reclining effigies in this impressive monument are of Sir Anthony Irby (d. 1623) and his wife Lady Frances Wray (d. c.1647).

August 2014

"On the south nave wall are brasses of a male and female figure with further C13 brasses of shields, smaller figures and inscription to Richard Lytleburye, his wife and family, 1521 and 1523"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147719

Kelley's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states

"Stainsby, which is a farm, now occupied by Mr. E. S. Clarke, was formerly a seat of the Littlebury family"

DB 9 September 2018

On the south nave wall C16 brass of a knight in armour.

DB 9 September 2018

A memorial to George Bass, explorer, who was baptised in the church in 1771.

Mark Acton, 2017

The inscription on the memorial to George Bass.

June 2017

This fine relief is a memorial to Lady Whichcote (d.1849) by Thomas Campbell*.

June 2017

* Thomas Campbell (1790-1858) renowned Scottish sculptor

Memorial to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Ainslie, killed at the Battle of Inkermann in the Crimean War.

His mother was from the Nevile family of Aubourn Hall.

Mark Acton, 2010

Stone figure mounted on north side of chancel. The inscription reads:

"The figure of St Laurence excavated at Bardney Abbey 1910 was restored and placed in this church in loving memory of Walter Thos French MA Vicar of this parish 1910-1930 R.I.P."

Benefactors' Board for Joseph and John Knowles.

Mark Acton, 2008

"DR THOMAS HURST HATH LYEING WITHIN THIS CHANCEL 7 CHILDREN NAMELY ANNE LEWIS MARY ELIZABETH CHARLES SARAYH & ANNA THIS IS TO THEIR MEMORY 1675"

"Dr Thomas Hurst became Rector of Barrowby and Leadenham in 1629, and a Doctor of Divinity in 1631

"Thomas later became chaplain to Charles I, and during the Civil War spent two years away from his parishes preaching to the Royalists.

He was sequestrated in 1645 and not restored until 1660, after paying a fine of £640"

See very interesting article in the Grantham Journal :-

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/grantham-civic-society-column-thomas-hurst-was-chaplain-to-charles-i-1-7015159/ 

DB 12 November 2018

This slab carries a dedication to John Eland and his two wives, dated 1463.

He lived in Raithby and was married again after his first wife died.

May 2013

The Church Guide states :-

"Sir John Cust, 3rd Bt of Stamford (1718-1770) by William Tyler, R.A. (d 1801).

The monument is descriptive of Sir John's office as Speaker of the House of Commons, with the Speaker's throne and mace, accompanied by a figure of Fidelity gesturing towards a volume of the Journal of the House of Commons which records Cust's re-election as Speaker in 1768"

DB 13 September 2018

"Monument to Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Richard Westmacott"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownlow_Cust,_1st_Baron_Brownlow

"In 1766 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ilchester in Somerset, a seat he held until 1774, and then represented Grantham between 1774 and 1776, in which year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Brownlow, "of Belton in the County of Lincoln".

The peerage was chiefly in recognition of his father's services, and the name of his title refers to his paternal grandmother Anne Brownlow (Lady Cust), sister and heiress in her issue of John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel (1690–1754), of Belton House, and wife of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet.

In 1776 he was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in 1783 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society"

DB 13 September 2018

Sculpted by Sir Henry Cheere who was a renowned English sculptor and monumental mason of the eighteenth century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cheere 

"Viscount Tyrconnel was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

It was created in 1718 for Sir John Brownlow, 5th Baronet, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Lincolnshire.

He was made Baron Charleville, in the County of Cork, at the same time, also in the Peerage of Ireland"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Tyrconnel#Viscounts_Tyrconnel_(1718) 

DB 26 September 2018

In the centre of the photo are the monuments to the first Earl Brownlow (d1853), and his wife Sophia (d1814).

The church is full of imposing family monuments – hence the quip
‘Belton church was built to the glory of the Brownlows, and in memory of God’.

Frank Robinson, March 2014

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN UNDYING MEMORY OF ARTHUR JOHN PUREY-CUST SUB LIEUT. ROYAL NAVY AND OF HIS GALLANT COMRADES OF HMS STRONGBOW KILLED IN ACTION ON 17TH OCTOBER 1917 IN DEFENCE OF A CONVOY IN THE NORTH SEA FIGHTING AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS UNTIL THEIR VESSEL SANK WITH COLOURS FLYING"

"HMS Strongbow was an M-class destroyer built for the British Royal Navy during the First World War.

The ship was launched in September 1916 and entered service in November that year.

Stongbow was sunk on 17 October 1917 by the German light cruisers SMS Bremse and Brummer in the North Sea, when escorting a convoy of merchant ships from Norway"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Strongbow_(1916) 

DB 17 July 2019

Marble effigy of her husband by Emmeline 'Nina' Cust (1867–1955).

"Emmeline 'Nina' Cust (1867–1955) was an English writer, editor, translator and sculptor.

She was a member of The Souls, an upper class circle that challenged the conventions and attitudes of their class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

On 11 October 1893, Cust married another member of The Souls, Henry John Cockayne-Cust.

She supported her husband in much of his work, including correspondence for the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations.

Cust was devoted to her husband, despite a reputedly unhappy marriage that lasted until his death in 1917.

Cust was a direct neighbour of sculptor Jacob Epstein when they both lived at Hyde Park Gate in London"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Cust 

DB 13 September 2018

"Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet (26 June 1659 – 16 July 1697) of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was an English Member of Parliament.

He built the grand mansion of Belton House, which survives today ...

As he died without surviving male issue, he was succeeded in his title and in most of his estates, including Belton, by his younger brother Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet (1665-1701), who received Belton House on condition that John's widow Alice Sherard should retain possession of it during her lifetime.

As she outlived Sir William, it therefore passed on her death in 1721 to William's son John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Brownlow,_3rd_Baronet 

DB 13 September 2018

The Church Guide states :- 

""Old" Sir John Brownlow, 1st Bt of Belton (1594-1679) and his wife Alice by William Stanton (see No 2).

This touching monument, for which he received £100 in 1681, is Stanton's first recorded work at Belton, and the first of a series of Brownlow monuments by him and his son Edward"

DB 17 September 2010

A prominent Elizabethan lawyer who founded the Brownlow family fortunes.

"Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, was a lawyer who served as Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brownlow 

This monument, by Joshua Marshall (1629-1678), was carved some time after Brownlow's death.

Richard Brownlow built the upper stage of the church tower. 

DB 13 September 2018

"Near this Place lieth the Body of Nicholas Doyle who Served this Noble Family as Chief Butler above five and twenty years. As long as Fidelity in service : Disinterested principles : a modest Obliging and Creditable Behaviour Shall be deemed reputable Qualifications, the Deceased's Name will be recorded with Praise. 

The Right Honble the Lord Viscount Tyrconnel out of his usual Regard to merit in all Stations ordered this marble to be Erected  in Memory of his most Valuable and much lamented Servant"

DB 26 September 2018

Memorial to Jack Harkness who died as a Japanese prisoner of war.

DB 9 September 2018

Memorial to Charles Lee the Rector's son killed at Ypres during the First World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Garrison_Artillery 

DB 9 September 2018

First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

"On the south wall of the chancel, a brass plate to the children of Sir John Wray of Wharton, d.1613 and 1615, in a square moulded stone surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

DB 12 May 2019

Holy Trinity's website states :- 

"It was a lightning strike in the early 1840s that gave a handful of worshipers the chance of having a parish church of their own.

Lightning destroyed Blades Mill and William Roy, the Rector of St Nicholas, Skirbeck, who had private means, seized the opportunity.

The Spilsby Road area was part of his parish.

In 1840 he had started things moving by having a room that was licensed for divine service.

By 1849 the new parish church of Holy Trinity, on the site where the mill used to stand, was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln"

https://www.holytrinityboston.org.uk/welcome/about-trinity/ 

DB 3 August 2019

The Australia Memorial in St Botolph’s church commemorates the Lincolnshire explorers such as George Bass, Joseph Banks and John Franklin who helped to shape modern Australia.

Funds are currently being sought for its restoration (2013).

Mark Acton, 2013

The memorial in St Botolph’s church to Thomas Fydell (1740-1812) and his wife Elizabeth.

Fydell was three times Mayor of Boston, MP for the town from 1790-1803 and 1806-1812 and commandant of the Boston Volunteers. He was a wine merchant and banker.

Mark Acton, 2013

A knight of St John of Jerusalem. A Maltese Cross indicating his order hangs round his neck.

The order became connected with Skirbeck in the 13th century, and maintained two hospitals and St John's church.

The last Prior of the order, which was dissolved in 1540, was Sir William Weston whose famly had been connected with Boston from the 14th century.

The church of St John was demolished in 1626.

November 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"In the chancel is a slab of Purbeck marble, with a cross and Norman-French inscription to Richard de Thistleton, rector 1293-1309"

DB 5 December 2018

Monument "1736 to Sir Cecil Wray by Thomas Carter"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360529 

Inscription states that the monument was erected some years before his death. 

DB 1 December 2018

"IN THE VAULT NEAR THIS MONUMENT IS DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD VERE BERTIE LATE OF BRANSTON IN THE COUNTY OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN ELDEST SON OF THE MOST NOBLE ROBERT THE FIRST DUKE OF ANCASTER AND KESTEVEN, MARQUIS AND EARL OF LINDSEY ...."

Monument erected by his widow in 1770.

DB 1 December 2018

"Semi-circular headed marble plaque with base and sunk circular heraldic panel commemorating late C18 members of the Lister family of Girsby Hall"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359948 

DB 9 September 2018

"In the tower is a wall monument with white marble base and grey sarcophagus, flanked by heraldic cartouches and supporting an obelisk bearing a pair of oval carved panels of Thomas Pindar d.1741 and his wife, Ann"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359948 

DB 9 September 2018

The porch contains two effigies of knights, both cross-legged and wearing chain mail and surcoats.They are early 14th century in date.

This knight has his hand at his sword.

May 2015

This effigy is of a knight is at prayer and lies underneath a canopy.

Like the other effigy in the porch, it dates from the early 14th century.

May 2015

This splendid life size effigy is of Sir John de Buslingthorpe who died c1340. He lies with his pillow supported by two angels and with a lion at his feet.

The remarkable state of preservation of this monument may in part be explained by the fact that it was discovered lying face downwards beneath the pulpit of the mediaeval church during Willson’s restoration.

Jean Howard, July 2020

This demi-figure of Sir Richard Boselyngthorpe dates from c1290 making it one of the oldest brasses in England.

Note that his head rests on two cushions, the lower with ogee detailed corners, the upper placed on the diagonal.

Between his fingers can be seen a heart shape, leading to speculation that he died abroad and only his heart was returned for burial at Buslingthorpe.

Jean Howard, July 2020

Commemorative plaque inside the church.

October 2016

"1611 brass wall plate W Robert Peterson"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360553 

Sacred to the memory of Robert Peterson and members of the Disney family.

Set in the north wall of the chancel and framed by a plaster frieze. 

DB 13 June 2018

Disney family memorial dated 1595 set in the north wall of the present vestry and framed by a plaster frieze. 

Disney family were major landowners in the parish prior to the English Civil War. 

Vestry was originally the north aisle lady chapel. 

DB 13 June 2018

"5 small brass wall plates to Eastland and Tonge families dated individually, 1712, 1725, 1739, 1764 and 1765"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360553

Set high up on south wall of present vestry. 

DB 13 June 2018

Memorial south chancel.

"In Memory of MR EDMUND WEAVER who by his own Industry from a low Education made very great Progress in the Liberal Arts and was justly Esteemed one of the best Astronomers of ye Age.

In Private Life a tender Husband an indulgent Father A quiet Neighbour A cheerful Companion A sincere Friend and a good Churchman. he Departed this Life in a faithful assurance of a better, Dec y 27, 1748 aged 65 years"

"an English astronomer, land surveyor, and friend to William Stukeley. Weaver's The British Telescope ephemerides (astronomical tables) is considered an important 18th-century publication on the movement of planets"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Weaver_(astronomer) 

Lincoln University, School of Mathematics and Physics, held the first annual Edmund Weaver Lecture in Astronomy on 11 October 2017.

DB 25 April 2018

The monument to Sir Charles Hussey who died in 1664.

It is signed by W Palmer and actually dates from 1730.

January 2018

"Monument; before the altar steps a fine ledger slab to Robert Blanchard, Priest, C14, with Latin inscription round the margin, engraved with a crossfleury and chalice"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359798 

DB 19 May 2019

In memory of Agnes Dennison Hutchinson d.1922.

DB 19 May 2019

The inscription under this figure reads: Here lyeth ye body of Brian Cooke of Doncaster in / the County of York Esq, who by Sara his wife / daughter and heire of Henry Riley Gent had issue / Brian / Alice who died young / William who died young / Susan / George / Sara / Henry / Margaret / he died upon the 27th of December 1653 / in the eightieth year of his age.

June 2013

A memorial slab stone of 1684 to William Walker, Vicar of Colsterworth & Master of Grantham School.

He wrote a book on grammar titled ‘A Treatise of English Particles’ & became known as ‘Particles’ Walker. The inscription translates as ‘Here lie the particles of William Walker’ and is attributed to his friend Isaac Newton.

Mark Acton, 2017

Located on the north wall behind the organ.

"NEWTON: AGED 9 YEARS: CUT WITH HIS PENKNIFE THIS DIAL: THE STONE WAS GIVEN BY C.TURNOR ESQ AND PLACED HERE AT THE COST OF THE RT HON SIR WILLIAM ERLE A COLLATERAL DESCENDENT OF NEWTON 1877"

DB 17 May 2018

"In the north chapel an oval monument with elaborate roccoco surround to Frances Wilcox d.1764"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309158 

DB 27 June 2018

"Small brass to Sir John Skipwith who died in 1400, showing the deceased in full plate armour with sword, misericord, feet resting on a lion.

This was removed from the church at Covenham St. Bartholomew"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063109 

DB 8 September 2019

"Fine C14 tomb recess with moulded ogee surround and pierced cusped tracery.

Attached to the rear wall of the recess is a small brass to Sir John Skipwith who died in 1400, showing the deceased in full plate armour with sword, misericord, feet resting on a lion. This was removed from the church at Covenham St. Bartholomew"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063109 

DB 8 September 2019

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

All Saints, Croft. Alabaster monument to Sir Valentine Brown (died 1600).

Mark Acton, 2016

Alabaster monument to John Brown (died 1614).

Mark Acton, 2016

"C14 figure of a priest, partly sunk into a slab, with ogee headed surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370 

DB 16 September 2018

"In the north aisle a marble wall monument to Richard Welby of 1714 by Thomas Green of Camberwell.

The fully wigged standing life sized figure of the deceased stands in an arched surround flanked by fluted pilasters with acanthus scrolls and broken segmental pediment contaning a cherub and putti leaning down from heaven holding a metal coronet, surmounted by an achievement.

Beneath is the inscription panel and to either side putti holding memento mori, and mourning, one with tears"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370 

DB 16 September 2018

"A large white marble wall plaque containing a long inscription recording the history of the Williams and Gregory families, by Susannah Gregory who died in 1755 aged 84.

By Thomas Taylor.

At the foot a skull, bats wings, eternal serpent, hour glass"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370

DB 16 September 2018

"In the south aisle a wall monument to Johannes Blyth, d.1602, in ashlar.

The latin raised letter inscription is set in an egg and dart surround, flanked by Ionic pilasters and free standing Composite fluted columns, supporting a pediment containing a pair of naked female figures holding hour glasses leaning on a skull.

The frieze is decorated with medallions.

The reclining figure of the deceased his prayer book in hand lies on a half rolled up mattress on a tomb chest on which are portrayed his wife and 6 children, all named in raised letter"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370 

DB 16 September 2018

More modern Welby memorial in the form of a comet.

DB 16 September 2018

Monument to Henry George Jarvis who died of fever in Grenada 1838.

Captain in the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70th_(Surrey)_Regiment_of_Foot 

The Regiment "returned to the West Indies in January 1838 and took up residence in Barbados".

DB 11 August 2018

"C17 memorial to Thomas Kent, poet"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063688 

"Both Chrysostome and Polycarpe in one

United lye interd beneath this stone

This one a Phoenix was all eminent

The learned prudent pious Thomas Kent

Late Rector of this church as whileome were

His good old father & his Brother deere

Fame hath his praise, ye world his life well spent

His spirit heaven, his bones this monument"

DB 9 September 2018

Flinders family wall tablets.

The larger tablet is in memory of Captain Matthew Flinders RN, navigator, who first circumnavigated Australia, born in Donington 1774. Text partly reads :-

"In memory of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. who died July 19th 1814 aged 40 years.

After having twice circumnavigated the globe, he was sent by the Admiralty in the year 1801, to make discoveries on the coast of Terra Australis.

Returning from this voyage he suffered shipwreck, and by the injustice of the French Government was imprisoned six years in the island of Mauritius.

In 1810, he was restored to his native land, and not long after was attacked by an excruciating disease. The anguish of which he bore until death with undeviating fortitude" 

30 April 2010

Brass wall plaque to Walter & William West killed in the  Matabele Rebellion of 1896.

"In March 1896, the Matabele revolted against the authority of the British South Africa Company.

The Mlimo (or M'limo, or Umlimo) the Matabele spiritual leader, is credited with fomenting much of the anger that led to this confrontation.

He convinced the Matabele and the Shona that the settlers (almost 4,000 strong by then) were responsible for the drought, locust plagues and the cattle disease rinderpest ravaging the country at the time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Matabele_War 

DB 23 March 2020

Memorial to Mary Carr (d. 1830) and her infant son.

North side of sanctuary. 

DB 23 March 2020

"In the chancel south wall is a monument to Robert Grantham d.1541, restored 1857.

The figure of the deceased is kneeling before a book, flanked by Doric columns supporting an entablature, above which is an inscription surmounted by oval armorial panels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064139 

DB 23 March 2020

C18 memorial to the Nixon family.

West tower, where it is located, survived a fire in 1873 which destroyed most of the original church.

DB 25 June 2018

A fragment of a late tenth century or eleventh century cross shaft with cable-moulded borders and interlaced patterning.

October 2016

Monument to Richard Bertie (c.1635-86). 3rd son of the 2nd Earl of Lindsey. MP for Woodstock.

Mark Acton, 2018

Monument to Robert Bertie (1582-1642), 1st Earl of Lindsey, killed at the Battle of Edgehill and his son Montague Bertie (1608-1666), 2nd Earl of Lindsey.

Mark Acton, 2018

Monument to the Hon. Frederick Burrell (1818-19), son of the 2nd Baron Gwydyr.

Mark Acton, 2018

Monument by Joseph Nollekens to Peter Burrell (1754-1820), 1st Baron Gwydyr. MP for Haslemere & Boston. Married Lady Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.

Mark Acton, 2018

Monument to Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1867-1951), 2nd Earl of Ancaster. MP for Horncastle. Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.

Mark Acton, 2018

Monument to Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1907-83), 3rd Earl of Ancaster. MP for Rutland & Stamford. Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.

Mark Acton, 2018

Monument by Henry Scheemakers & Henry Cheere to Robert Bertie (1660-1723), 1st Duke of Ancaster & Kesteven.

May 2018

Monument by Charles Harris to Peregrine Bertie (1714-78), 3rd Duke of Ancaster & Robert Bertie (1756-79), 4th Duke of Ancaster.

May 2018

Monument of 1738 to seven members of the Bertie family.

May 2018

Monument by Louis-Francois Roubiliac to Peregrine Bertie (1686-1742), 2nd Duke of Ancaster.

May 2018 

Monument to Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1830-1910), 1st Earl of Ancaster. MP for Boston and Rutland.

Mark Acton, 2018

Memorial to: Clementina Elizabeth, wife of the First Baron Aveland.  Baroness Willoughby de Eresby in her own right and Joint Hereditary Great Chamberlain of England, born September 2 1809, died 13 November 1888. After 40 years of married life she succeeded to the Willoughby and Drummond estates on the death of her brother in 1870.

May 2018

Memorial to Ann Hassard and other family members.

DB 6 February 2020

Memorial to Fitzhugh Hassard Short and John Hassard Short.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 reports that "John Hassard Short, Esq., is lord of the manor; but Poolam Hall, and many other farms, belong to various proprietors; and the governors of Oakham School are impropriators of the great tithes"

DB 6 February 2020

On the wall of the chancel of St Andrew's Fillingham is this marble tablet inscribed as follows:

In the center of this chancel/ are deposited the remains of/ DAME ESTHER WRAY/ and in the same vault with those/ of her consort/ Sir CECIL WRAY Bart./ She died at Summer Castle/ on the 1st day of Feby 1825 in the/ eighty ninth year of her age.

Sir Cecil Wray, 13th baronet and politician, built Fillingham (or Summer) Castle in 1760.  Dame Esther's maiden name was Summers.

May 2011

"A large slate monument with cherubs to George Sutton, died 1715, and family"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062733 

DB 5 May 2018

"Monuments in nave include one in inlaid marble and ashlar to John Rogeley, died 1780"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062733 

DB 5 May 2018

Colonel Charles Fane, son of Henry and Anne Fane of Fulbeck Hall, died of wounds received at the battle of Vittoria on 21 June 1813.

He served in the 2/59th Foot.

Mark Acton, 2008

One of many memorials to the Fane family this one commemorating seventeen members of the family starting with Nevil Fane d. 1807 through to modern times.

DB 3 April 2018

"Of the Fane memorials in the north aisle, the earliest is to Neville Fane (died 1680), being a curved-top slab with an urn on a plinth with painted heraldic shields"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Fulbeck 

DB 26 March 2018

"A slab memorial is dedicated to Thomas Ball, servant of Sir Francis Fane, inscribed:

In Memory of Thomas Ball Who dyed the 10th day of February, 1673 in the 74th year Of his Age.

His Wife Was Elizabeth daughter of M. Thomas West of Doncaster by Whom hee had six Sons, & left onely one daughter Elizabeth Survivinge

Hee was 50 years a faithfull servant to Sr Francis Fane Kt of the Bath Second Son of Francis Earle of Westmorland, & travelled with him into Holland, Denmark, Germany, Loraine, Switzerland, Naples, France & Flanders, where hee considered the Courts and Camps of most of the European Princes their splendor & mutabilitie, concluding with the Preacher, there was nothing new under the Sun, & that all was Vanity, and onely one thing neccisary to fear God & to keep his Commandments:

Soe doth;: F. F. who fixed this stone: 1674"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Fulbeck 

DB 3 April 2018

"Remains of C17 floor slab in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063663

"DEPOSITUM RICHARDI DU-GARD"

DB 18 February 2020

John Frewer was born and baptised in Fulletby in 1883. He was the son of Canon G. E. Frewer who was then Rector of Fulletby.

"He was ordained in 1909 and, after being a curate in Boston, he emigrated to Australia where he became domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Bunbury-eventually becoming a canon of the diocese.

A member of the Brotherhood of St Boniface, he was their warden from 1919 until his ordination to the episcopate.

He served as second bishop of North West Australia from 1929 to 1965"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frewer 

DB 18 February 2020

In the porch is this figure of a lady circa 1300 wearing a head-dress and a flowing gown.

Her head rests on a pillow, her feet on a lion.

A masonry paint has been applied in recent times.

June 2015

In the porch is this effigy circa 1300 of a cross-legged knight.

He wears mail and a surcoat and carries sword and shield.

His head rests on a pillow, his feet are on a lion.

June 2015

Tombstone re-positioned inside the entrance.

"Sacred

to the Memory of

RICHARD ROLLETT

formerly Master Sail Maker of

H.M.S. the Resolution

Capn James Cook in her 2nd Voyage

round the World

Died the 20th January 1824" 

DB 19 June 2018

Wall plaque north aisle. 

"A British officer, Lieutenant [Francis] Elliott commanding the local Constabulary at Serenli was brutally attacked and killed along with 35 African police, 7 others were wounded, 3 deserted and some 50 villagers were also murdered.

The local warlord Abdurraham Mursaal had tricked Lieutenant Elliott into disarming his constables when they were "off duty""

See also

http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/details.php?irn=239033  

DB 19 June 2018

Memorials in Gautby church include two stone figures, originally erected in 1673 in St Mary Woolnoth Church, London.  Seen here is Sir Thomas Vyner, displaying his chain of office as Lord Mayor of London.

Frank Robinson, May 2013

This reclining figure is the memorial to Thomas Viner, son of Sir Thomas.

Both monuments are attributed to Jasper Latham.

July 2017

"In the north aisle is a small inscribed brass plate to Ann Tourney, d.1641"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165045 

DB 12 May 2019

"In the floor of the vestry is a C16 brass to a lady, defaced"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165045 

DB 12 May 2019

The white marble monument to Elizabeth Saunderson was created by Edward Hurst.

The inscription reads:
Near this place lies the body of the Hon. / ELIZABETH SAUNDERSON widow of the Hon. Nicholas / Saunderson eldest son of the Rt. Hon. George Lord / Viscount Castleton of the Kingdom of Ireland / By whom she had only one son Wray Sounderson / who dyed without issue in her lifetime / She was the only Daughter and heire of St John WRAY / of Gentworth baronet / Who was great grandson of Sir Christopher / WRAY Lord Chief Justice of England / in the reigh of the renowned / QUEEN ELIZABETH.

(She died in York on 7 April 1714 in her 50th year)

May 2015

The monument to Sir Christopher Wray (1524-1592) and his wife is made of alabaster, presumably from nearby Nottinghamshire.

Wray was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

He married Anne, daughter of Nicholas Girlington.  They had a son and two daughters.  Two other daughters died in infancy.

May 2015

"In the south transept on a chest a pair of recumbent effigies, of a knight and lady.

He in a cusped ogee headed niche with crocketed pinnacles and censing angels in the spandrels, she on the floor beside him with mantle and cushion"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064425 

DB 6 May 2018 

Memorial to Edward Cawdron Cordeaux - High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1963.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Lincolnshire 

Cordeaux Academy in Louth was "named after Captain Edward Cawdron Cordeaux, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N., (born 24 July 1894, Caistor), a surgeon who lived at Goulceby House, Goulceby"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordeaux_Academy 

DB 9 September 2018

"In the chancel north wall a carved stone Gothic wall monument to the Crosland family d,1871"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308429 

DB 8 September 2019

Monument to Sir Dudley Ryder, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench who died 1756.

The sculptor was Henry Cheere.

March 2017

Monument to Elizabeth Middlemore on the wall.

Pevsner states "Mrs Middlemore d. 1701. Tablet with convex inscription plate, three putti above, and columns l. and r., attributed to the circle of William Stanton"

DB 21 January 2020

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village. Sydney Douglas died in Mesopotamia.

Mark Acton, 2017

"A brass plaque to Frances Cawdron, d.1650"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767 

DB 28 July 2018 

A monument to Robert Cawdron, died 1665.

June 2017

"further alabaster wall plaque to Sir Robert Cawdron, d.1652, in the form of an aedicule with broken pediment with escutcheon and line carvings of weepers beneath"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767 

DB 28 July 2018 

Memorials to the fallen of Great Hale and Little Hale in both World Wars.

Mark Acton, 2017

Memorial next to the chancel arch.

William Settle was Vicar of the parish for 52 years.

DB 6 February 2020

Monument to Francis Willis, who treated King George III.

The inscription begins: Sacred to the memory of / Revd. FRANCIS WILLIS M.D. / who died on 5th December 1807 / in the 90th year of his age./ He was the third son of Revd. John Willis of Lincoln, a descendant of an ancient family of the same name that resided at Fenny Compton in Warwickshire.

September 2014

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / ALGERNON MASSINGBERD / WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN / SHOT AT FORT TABATINGA ON THE / AMAZON RIVER. / JULY 1855 IN THE 27TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. / THIS TABLET IS PLACED TO HIS MEMORY / BY HIS MOTHER, CAROLINE, WIFE OF / ALGERNON LANGTON MASSINGBERD" 

Hounded by creditors Algernon departed for America early in 1852 never to return.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/gunby-estate-hall-and-gardens/features/the-massingberd-family 

DB 20 July 2018

"In the nave a pair of fine brasses beneath a double canopy to Thomas Massinqberd of Gunby and Johanna his wife, d.c.1405"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359687 

DB 20 July 2018

"Judqe William Lodynton d,1420, feet on a doq, under a cusped oqee canopy"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359687 

Justiciary in the court of Common Pleas during the reign of Henry V.

DB 20 July 2018

"Monument on north wall of chancel to John Heneage, died 1530 and wives, Purbeck marble tomb chest with unusual, cusped decoration.

Back wall with brass effigies of Heneage and wives kneeling at prieu- dieu with inscriptions issuing from mouths.

Low arch and cresting above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298 

DB 19 May 2019

"Monument on south wall of north chapel to Sir William Heneage, died 1610 and 2 wives, Anne 1585 and Jane 1596, of pink streaked and grey marble. Figures kneel before prieu-dieu, opposite each other. 2 bearded sons and 2 daughters kneel below. Large crest above with flanking scenes of Adam and Eve, and Resurrection"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298

DB 19 May 2019

"North chapel with tomb on west wall to John Heneage, died 1559 and wife Anne, died 1587; of stone with table tomb with coats of arms below, and above kneeling figures face each other over prieu-dieu, he in armour, both wearing ruffs and flanked by fluted columns. Round headed arches with raised keystones, and rich cresting above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298

DB 19 May 2019

Free standing pink, yellow streaked and grey marble monument with alabaster recumbent effigy of Sir George Heneage, died 1595.

Ornate strapwork and coats of arms on tomb"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298 

DB 19 May 2019

Momument by Bertuccini on the south wall of the chapel.

George Heneage, died 1731, with busts of his wives Mary and Elizabeth below.

DB 19 May 2019

Monument to three George Heneages on the south wall of the chapel 

George Heneage died 1659

George Heneage died 1667

George Heneage died 1692

DB 19 May 2019

"A marble wall memorial on the north chapel north wall, erected 1742, comprises an engraved plaque, this below an entablature with floriate details topped by a cockerel.

Below the entablature, and either side, hangs gathered drapes.

Below the plaque is an apron with Baroque scrollwork decoration, and a centred scroll-edged coat of arms.

The arms contain three white cockerels on blue field to the left, and three gold lion heads on a black bar with five gold bars, on a red field to the right.

The memorial is dedicated to Daniel de Ligne (died 12 December 1730) and Cadwallader Glynne (died 1 January 1736), the nephew and heir of Daniel de Ligne.

The monument notes that Glynne had bequested a yearly amount of £5 to be distributed to the poor of Harlaxton parish in perpetuity.

Further dedications on this plaque are to Anna Maria Glynne (died 28 November 1729), only daughter of Cadwallader Glynne, and Dorothy (died 5 August 1747), wife of Glynne and daughter of Benjamin Burell of Pethall, Devon"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

"Memorials include a restored canopied niche in the north chapel with 2 alabaster figures, early C15"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1187962

Attributed to Sir Richard Rickhill and his wife, Elizabeth alternatively to William Rickhill, Justice of the Common Pleas, and his wife Elizabeth, c.1410.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

Memorial "dedicated to Daniel Gregory (died 9 June 1819, aged 72), the fourth son of George Gregory of Harlaxton and his wife, Anne.

The monument was provided by the deceased's brother George De Ligne Gregory"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

"In the south chapel there is a commemorative brass plaque to William Strood and his wife Agnes, both of whom died in 1448"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

"Here lyes the Body of Sir George Thorold Knt: & Bart: who built new this Church and Chancel in the year 1717. and was Lord Mayor of the City of London 1720 ...."

Located south chancel on the opposite side to his brother Samuel's monument.

DB 8 May 2018   

Memorial to Sir Samuel Thorold Bart. died 1738.

Located north chancel on the opposite side to his brother George's monument. 

DB 8 May 2018   

"On the north wall of the chancel is a fifteenth-century brass of John Whichcote in armour and his wife, Elizabeth Tyrwhit, in a complex butterfly headdress"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Chad%27s_Church,_Harpswell 

DB 25 September 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states  

"Recumbent stone effigy of a man in gown and hood worn over a tunic or cassock; on the head is a skull cap and at the feet a large grotesque head; below is an inscription to William de Harrington, rector here circ. 1346" 

DB 25 September 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The church was restored in 1890-91 by the late Sir Thomas Whichcote bart. and on taking down the east wall of the chancel there was found in the basement a large stone slab, 7 feet in length and 22 inches wide, bearing the figure of a priest in vestments, and round the margin an inscription in Norman-French, undated, to John Gere, parson, of Harppeswelle"

Church Guide suggests a date about 1300.

DB 25 September 2018

An alabaster monument to Francis Copledyck who died in 1599.

Mark Acton, 2017

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

"White marble monument on black marble field, to Mrs. Baker of Orsett Hall, Essex, died 1849"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307152 

"... SHE BEQUEATHED 1500 CONSOLS THE INTEREST TO BE DISTRIBUTED ANNUALLY IN COALS AMONG THE POOR OF THIS PARISH ..."

The first British Consols (perpetual bonds) were issued in 1751.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consol_(bond) 

DB 3 September 2018

"Grey and white marble monument with urn flanked by single globes, to the Reverend Joseph Carr, died 1768"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307152 

"... ABOVE 40 YEARS, THE MOST WORTHY RECTOR OF THIS PARISH"

DB 3 September 2018 

First World War memorial to the fallen of Hemswell.

Mark Acton 2014

Monument by Scheemakers to Sir Michael Newton (died 1746).

Mark Acton, 2016

"4 stone monuments with urns and aprons of various designs, to Thomas Ball, died 1805; Thomas Ball, died 1819: Thomas Ball, died 1835 and John Ball, died 1845"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062998 

Image shows the monument to Thomas Ball, died 1805 and Mary his wife.

DB 9 November 2018

The late 14th century monument to Sir Humphrey Littlebury in All Saints Church is thought to have been sculpted by Bristol craftsmen.

On the cresting of the recumbent figure's helmet is a head.

Ken Redmore, 2010

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Monument to Edward Payne situated behind the organ.

"2 large monuments in north arcade, both in white and grey marble with sarcophagus and obelisk, to Edward Payne, died 1710 and Thomas Payne, died 1742"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360316 

"To the memory of EDWARD PAYNE ESQ who early engaged in the Cause of Liberty and Religion. In a meeting of the Gentlemen and Clergy of the County He (being then High Sheriff) publicly declared He would stand or fall with the PRINCE of ORANGE ... "

DB 26 June 2018

Ashton family monuments, 

"Black and white marble monument on north wall of nave to Arabella Ashton died 1792"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360316 

DB 26 June 2018

"Marble wall plaque on south wall of chancel, still life of chalice and books to Rev. George Thorold, d.1832, by P. Rouw"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062889 

Viewed through an external window. 

DB 28 May 2020

The north chapel. A fourteenth-century monument slab with images of a lady and a child praying.

Mark Acton, 2017

In the north chapel, a monument to Sir Charles Dymoke, died 1602, and his wife.

Mark Acton, 2017

First World War memorial to the fallen of the parish.

Mark Acton, 2018

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the parish.

Mark Acton, 2018

"In the chancel a small mid C15 figure of a knight in full armour, inscription missing, possibly to Sir Geoffrey Hilton"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308771 

DB 27 June 2018 

"In the north chapel a handsome brass to Sir Andrew Luttrell, d.1390.

Depicting deceased life-sized beneath a cusped ogee canopy, wearing plate armour with feet on a lion and inscription at the base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308771 

He was the son of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, one of the most famous medieval manuscripts because of its rich illustrations of everyday life in the 14th century.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-luttrell-psalter 

DB 27 June 2018  

This memorial bust of Alice South is in the north aisle.  Hands clasped in prayer, she wears  a ruff and has a cowled head.

The Souths once held the manor of Keelby.

The inscription below the bust reads:
Here lies Alice South whose life had weathered sixty winters when it ceased its lingering course.  Though wooed by the flower of youth and a troop of nobles, she remained for fourteen years in lonely widowhood, out of affection for her children, to whom, rejecting a second marriage, she made over ere death took her, her fortune unimpaired - all her fortune, that is, save what had been devoured by the parasite and wretched crowd of suitors who haunted her hospitable walls. Happy children to whom but for her request would have fallen sorrow and sighing in place of ease she bequeathed to them. 'Husband take and keep me in the tomb' were her dying words, then passed into the funeral urn the ashes of a thus dutiful wife. Died 3 May 1605

July 2014

A memorial in the nave of the church to two local women who lost their lives when the Lusitania sank.

July 2014

This early 14th century knight lies in the west corner of the south aisle. There are puppies by his pillow.

It is suggested that this is a memorial to a member of the Dykes family.

May 2016

Monument transferred from the previous church building commemorating 5 young children of Edmund Turnor who was lord of the manor.

DB 10 October 2018

"mutilated C13 crusader effigy in south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083025 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"in the church is the effigy of a cross-legged knight in chain mail, much dilapidated, with his feet upon a griffin"

DB 14 May 2019

Memorial to John & Katherine Holmes died 1788 & 1798.

DB 8 February 2020

Memorial plaque at the west end of the nave, possibly by Henry Wilson.

The inscription reads:"To the Glory of God and in Dear Memory of HALIBURTON FRANCIS DALLAS YORKE Lieutenant. Only Son of THOMAS DALLAS YORKE of Walmsgate. He died of Fever while serving his Regiment. Born xx 1875, died Dec 1899"

May 2016

Monument in St Helen’s church, Lea to Francis Foljambe Anderson who died in Grahamstown, South Africa on 15 September 1881 but was buried at sea on 8 October 1881 allegedly due to sharks following the ship.

Mark Acton, 2014

Monument in St Helen’s church, Lea to Sir Charles John Anderson, Bart., Rector of Lea from 1795-1846, and his wife Frances Mary.

Mark Acton, 2014

The tomb of Sir Ralph Trehampton dating from around 1300 in St Helen’s church, Lea.

Mark Acton, 2014

"In the chancel floor are 2 brasses to Elizabeth Beresford 1624"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147388 

DB 16 September 2018

Monument to Christopher Beresford d.1716 and his eldest son William Beresford d. 1729.

DB 16 September 2018

"Monument to Lady Jane Sherard 1856 on the south wall in low relief of a lady weeping over an urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147388 

DB 16 September 2018

Church Guide states :-

"marble memorial slab commemorating Charles Medlycot who was murdered by an absconding servant in 1737 on the eve of his wedding"

Partly hiddenby the organ. 

DB 16 July 2019

A memorial to two unfortunate members of the Allenby family – one (Frederick - 1800-1815) drowned whilst bathing at Mablethorpe, the other (Edmund - 1797-1819) died whilst climbing Mount Etna. Both were sons of Hinman and Ann Allenby of Kenwick House.

Mark Acton, 2016

Tomb of Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (died 1355) recessed in the north choir aisle wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_de_Burghersh,_1st_Baron_Burghersh 

Depicted in full armour he was a knight who took part in the Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346.

DB 20 December 2018

Tomb of Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (died 1355) recessed in the north choir aisle wall.

At the feet of the effigy stand a pair of angels holding Bartholomew's soul in a napkin.

One of the offices to which Bartholomew had been appointed was that of King's Warrener and below the napkin is a rabbit warren with tiny rabbit heads peeping out.

DB 20 December 2018

Chantry chapel built into the north wall of the Angel Choir for Bishop Richard Fleming 1420-1431.

The tomb chest is of the "cadavar" type and is one of the earliest in England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_tomb 

DB 27 August 2018

Table tombs of James Gardiner (49th Bishop of Lincoln 1694 - 1704) and his son also James Gardiner, Subdean of Lincoln d.1731.

DB 29 August 2019

"William John Butler (1818–1894) was an English churchman, Dean of Lincoln from 1885 until his death.

He was previously Vicar of the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wantage from 1847 to 1881, where he founded the Community of St Mary the Virgin"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Butler 

DB 28 March 2019

Monument to Christopher Wordsworth, a nephew of the famous poet, who was Bishop of Lincoln 1869 to 1885. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wordsworth 

The design by Thomas Garner is supposed to have been influenced by the nearby Burghersh tombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Garner 

Christopher Wordsworth is buried at Riseholme. 

DB 10 August 2019

Chantry chapel founded by John Russell, Bishop of Lincoln 1480-1494 and dedicated to Saint Blaise the patron saint of woolcombers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell_(bishop)

The only brasses, in the whole Cathedral, to escape destruction by Parliamentarian Troops during the English Civil War 1642–1651 are the two coats of arms on the side of John Russell's tomb.

On the left the Russell family arms and in the center his arms as Bishop surmounted by a mitre.

DB 4 October 2018

Prior to the Reformation Saint Hugh's head (which was separate from the body) was housed in a head reliquary kept under a movable cover on top of this stone shrine base.

Modern metal adornment 1986 to Saint Hugh's head shrine by David Poston the sculptor and jeweller - to mark the 800th anniversary of Saint Hugh's becoming Bishop of Lincoln.

Symbolically it stands as a sentinel holding aloft hugh spears to guard the once desecrated shrine.

It has the outline of a throne - the seat of a bishop.

It has the elegant curve of a swan's neck which iconographically identifies it with Saint Hugh.

DB 27 August 2018

Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290), wife of Edward I, died at Harby near Lincoln.

Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

The rest of her body was taken down to London in stages and Edward I ordered a stone cross to be erected at each stopping-place on the journey to London, ending at Charing Cross.

The "Eleanor crosses" stood at Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford, Geddington, Hardingstone near Northampton, Stony Stratford, Woburn, Dunstable, St Albans, Waltham, Westcheap, and Charing 

Her heart was buried in the Dominican priory at Blackfriars in London and her body in Westminster Abbey.

Lincoln tomb's original stone chest survives; its effigy was destroyed in the 17th century and has been replaced with a 19th-century copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Castile  

DB 13 September 2018

Brass of Bishop William Smith (1494-1513).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smyth 

Reproduction given to the Cathedral by the fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, because the Bishop was co-founder of their college.

With two small exceptions all the Cathedral's original brasses were destroyed by Parliamentarian Troops during the English Civil War 1642–1651.

DB 14 December 2018

Tournai marble burial slab on the north side of the nave.

Identified in C19 as belonging to Remigius the 1st Bishop of Lincoln 1072-1092 hence the surrounding  inscription.

It is now believed on stylistic grounds to belong to Alexander "the Magnificent" 3rd  Bishop of Lincoln 1123-1148.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Lincoln 

The slab depicts a carved Tree of Jesse.

DB 11 October 2018

Memorial Tomb of Bishop John Kaye 1827-1853 who is buried in the churchyard at Riseholme.

Carra marble effigy by Richard Westmacott (the younger) 1857.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Westmacott_(the_younger)

John Kaye was the first bishop, since the middle ages, to live near Lincoln and a Palace was built for him at Riseholme - his predecessors had mostly lived at Buckden half way towards London.

DB 10 January 2019

Monument at the west end of the nave to Elizabeth Hatton d.1724 and her son William Gylby d.1744.

DB 21 December 2019

Samuel Fuller Dean of Lincoln 1695 - 1700.

Received his appointment, according to Kennet, through the interest of the Lay Lords who loved him for his hospitality and wit.

Face used by Antonio Verrio as the model for Bacchus astride of a barrel.

DB 13 May 2019

Bronze statue 1913 by William Blake Richmond with lettering by Eric Gill.

The statue shows the bishop in the act of confirmation and was originally intended to stand in the open. 

DB 7 August 2020

Several bishops of Lincoln are buried in the southeast transept including Robert Grosseteste 1235-1253 the first Chancellor of Oxford University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste 

His tomb is marked by a raised ledger stone, designed by W.H.Randoll Blacking, and placed here in 1953. 

DB 18 October 2018

On the south side of the sanctuary is the tomb of  Katherine Swynford.

"Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (born Katherine de Roet, c. 1350 – 10 May 1403), also spelled Katharine or Catherine, was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, a son of King Edward III.

She had been the Duke's lover for many years before their marriage.

The couple's children, born before the marriage, were later legitimated during the reign of the Duke's nephew, Richard II"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Swynford 

DB 4 October 2018

A member of the Ellison family of Boultham Hall.

"An accomplished rose grower. He laid out 4 acres of garden at Bracebridge with thousands of roses. 

In 1905 He crossed a Cox's Orange Pippin to create Ellison's Orange"

http://www.itsaboutlincoln.co.uk/ellison.html 

"Ellison’s Orange is a connoisseur's mid-season eating apple, described as 'once tasted, never forgotten' on account of its rich flavour and unique aniseed undertones.

It's an Edwardian variety, dating back to 1904 when it was raised by Rev Charles Ellison of Bracebridge Manse, Lincoln and Mr Albert Wipf, head gardener to Rev Ellison’s brother-in-law, Joseph Shuttleworth, at Hartsholme Hall in nearby Skellingthorpe.

Charles Ellison was a renowned pomologist with more than 1,500 fruit trees in his gardens ...

Ellison’s Orange achieved an RHS Award of Merit in 1911 and RHS First Class Certificate in 1917"

https://www.waterfurlonggardens.com/single-post/2018/09/17/Our-Apple-for-September-Ellisons-Orange

DB 27 July 2019

"IN MEMORY OF MRS ANNE DAWSON RELICT OF MR WILLIAM DAWSON LATE OF THIS CITY AND DAUGHTER OF JOHN ATKINSON LATE OF BUSLINGTHORP HALL IN THIS COUN'Y GENT: SHE BECAME IMMORTAL JAN'Y 10, 1739 IN THE 63 YEAR OF HER AGE"

DB 12 April 2018

Memorial brass " ... JOHN BECKE CITIZEN AND ALDERMAN AND TWICE MAYOR OF THIS CITIE OF LINCOLNE AND MARIE HIS WIFE WHO HAD BY HER ISSUE 10 CHILDREN ... DEPARTED THE 9 OF DECEMBER 1617"

DB 31 May 2018

Memorial to the noted Lincoln architect William Adams Nicholson (1803–1853) who was a founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 

"Possibly Nicholson's most important contribution was in the design of Workhouses.

His pioneering Southwell Workhouse (1824) was important forerunner of the radially planned workhouses of the New Poor Law ...

As well as working in the Gothic revival style of architecture, Nicholson could also work very effectively in classical styles.

He designed the Mansfield Town Hall in a Grecian style portico with Doric columns.

More striking is the Corn Exchange of 1847 in the Cornhill Lincoln. Here he has a projecting portico with Corinthian columns at Piano nobile level ... "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_Nicholson  

DB 20 October 2018

Memorials to Tyrwhht Smith d. 1826 and family.

"one of the Aldermen of this CITY" 

DB 27 September 2018

This wall tablet from the former Saint Martin's church has been relocated to the Fleming Chantry in Lincoln Cathedral.

In memory of George Davies Kent vicar for more than 50 years who died 1849.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin%27s_Church,_Lincoln 

DB 11 October 2018 

Church timeline states :-

"Altar used by 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment in Sumatra moved from St. Matthias Chapel of Ease to St. Nicholas Church North Aisle.

Also brass tablet Commemorating men who died in action at Poona, Dinapore and Lucknow 1919-1928"

DB 8 November 2018

"At the west end of the north aisle are 2 fine early C15 brasses"

"On the south is a merchant and his wife, John and Alice Lynwode, d.1419, with beneath a panel containing 7 figures under cusped arcades"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166212  

One of the 7 children depicted is William Lynwode otherwise spelt Lyndwood who had a distinguished ecclesiastical career.

"English bishop of St. David's, diplomat and canonist, most notable for the publication of the Provinciale"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyndwood  

DB 12 May 2018

"At the west end of the north aisle are 2 fine early C15 brasses.

On the north is a merchant, John Lyndewode, d.1421, with his feet resting on a woolsack on which is his woolmark"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166212 

DB 12 May 2018

First World War memorial to Sergeant John Holmes.

Mark Acton, 2017

Memorial to Charles Bucknall, a First World War casualty, incorporating the insignia of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

The Regiment inherited the unique privilege in the British Army of wearing a badge on the back of its headdress as well as the front, an honour won by the 28th Regiment when it fought in two ranks back to back at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire_Regiment 

DB 8 September 2019

This recumbent effigy, dating from c.1300, is of a knight in chain-mail and surcoat. There are two angels by his pillow and two lions at his feet.

Naomi Field, 1995

"James Roberts / who in the years 1768-1771 sailed round the world / with the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks / on His Majesty's ship The Endeavour, / Lieutenant James Cook, commander. / In the year 1772 he again made a voyage with / Sir J. Banks to Iceland and ascended the summit / of that wonderful burning mountain, Hecla. / Having returned in safety to England, / he retired in 1795 to Mareham House / and died on the 8th July 1826, aged 74 years."

Plaque in north aisle of the church.

June 2013

"To the Memory of WILLIAM GOODALE, who died April ye 9th 1716, aged 110.

At the age of 50 He married HANNAH his Wife, who was then 25 Years of Age and had issue by her 15 Children.

At his death, having been married 60 years his youngest Son was 30 Years of Age.

Also of Hannah his Widow who died April ye 21st, 1723 aged 92"

DB 7 September 2019

"JOHN PERKINS MERCHANT OF THIS PLACE WHO DIED 4 FEB. 1879, LEFT £800 TO THE FEOFFEES OF MARKET DEEPING;

TEN GUINEAS OF THE YEARLY INTEREST TO BE SUBSCRIBED TO THE PETERBOROUGH INFIRMARY,TO ENABLE THE FEOFFEES TO NOMINATE PATIENTS PROM MARKET DEEPING,

AND THE REMAINING INTEREST TO BE GIVEN YEARLY AT CHRISTMAS, IN COALS, TO THE DESERVING POOR OF THE PARISH"

DB 7 September 2019

Monument to Revd. Ayscough Floyer (1821-1872) in the chancel.

The Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire 1868 states :-

"The living is a perpetual curacy, of the yearly value of £220, in the gift of, and held by, the Rev. Ayscoghe Floyer, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford"

DB 8 September 2019

Alabaster tablet on the chancel wall, reading:

To the sacred memorie of / Walter Harpham Gent. & Ann his wife, whoe lived & / died in Gods feare & favour, he March the 23 1607 aged / 60 years, she March 15 1617 aged 76 & had issue / Alice married to Tho. Phillips Gent. who by him had / issue Willoughby whoe died childlese, and Eliz. / married to William Wesled Gent. & by him had issue / 7 sons & 3 daughters, and by Chr. Broxholme Gent. / her 2d husband had issue one sone , and died / July the 20 1628 aged 53 years.

June 2015

Alabaster monument to Sir Anthony Thorold, d 1594.

March 2016

Detail of the monument to Sir Anthony Thorold - the recumbent effigy on a rolled-up mat.

March 2016

Tomb-chest monument for William Thorold, d.1569, made of Purbeck marble.

March 2016

Memorial to Ernest Hayford Thorold.

He was Assistant Chaplain-General, Western Command from 1924 and an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1926 – 1935.

He was then from 1935 – 1939 successively Chaplain to Kings George V, Edward VIII and George VI.

After further commands with the Southern Command and the Aldershot Command he was Chaplain-General to the British Armed Forces (and also Chaplain of the Tower of London) from 1931 to 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thorold 

DB 23 July 2018 

"Marble wall plaque to John Oldham d.1818, topped by an urn, with poignant inscription"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146950 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MR JOHN OLDHAM, WHO, TO THE INEXPRESSIBLE GRIEF OF HIS FAMILY, AND SINCERE REGRET OF HIS FRIENDS, ON THE 19TH OF FEBRUARY 1818, WAS MOST  AWFULLY SNATCHED FROM HEALTH AND LIFE BY A BRAIN FEVER; IN THE 37TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

ALSO OF A SON, COLBY GRAVES, WHO DIED IN HIS INFANCY"

DB 24 August 2019

An early fourteenth century effigy of a priest.

December 2017

Monument to the 1st Earl of Ripon carved by Matthew Noble.

"Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, PC (1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859) ...

He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between August 1827 and January 1828"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._J._Robinson,_1st_Viscount_Goderich

DB 7 December 2019

A second view of the Earl of Ripon's monument with the Mortuary Chapel beyond.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The chancel is separated from the adjoining chapel by a beautifully carved arcade, and beneath one of its arches is placed the fine altar tomb erected to Frederick John, 1st Earl of Ripon, who died 28 Jan. I859; it was designed by the late Sir G. G. Scott R.A. and bears a recumbent figure of the earl, in white marble, by the late Mr. Matthew Noble; the sides are relieved with shields of arms and inscriptions on diapered work" 

DB 7 December 2019

"Monument to Dean Henry Hobart, which portrays his wife and daughter"

https://nocton-church.blogspot.com/p/test-2.html 

"In 1816, Hobart reached the pinnacle of his success as a clergyman with his appointment as Dean of Windsor.

This made him spiritual head of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a chapel royal and royal peculiar, essentially the monarch's private chapel.

He was to hold this deanery until his death in 1848, serving four monarchs: George III, George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria.

The deanery carried with it the post of Register of the Order of the Garter, which is based at the chapel".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hobart_(priest) 

DB 7 December 2019

Pevsner comments :-

"Alabaster effigy of a knight, later c 14, sadly mutilated.

No head, no legs, but the lion with a wondrous long tail survives"

DB 8 September 2019

This coffin lid with its foliated cross, which lies in the chancel of the church, probably dates from the mid thirteenth century.

May 2016

Interesting brass plate hanging in the Disney Chantry (now used as the vestry).

Church walk around guide states :-

"The brass plate is in two pieces the second piece being in West Lavington Church Wiltshire.

The reverse of the brass has an inscription commemorating the founding of a chantry in Holland in 1518.

The face has been used to commemorate two generations of the Disney family"

Monumental Brass Society has an excellent description.

http://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/page97.html 

DB 26 May 2018

The higher tomb effigy is Sir William Disney from the late thirteenth-century. The lower effigy is of Joan, wife of Sir William Disney.

Mark Acton, 2016

Norton Disney, St Peter's. Fourteenth-century tomb effigy of Hautacia, daughter of William Disney, Lord of Norton.

Mark Acton, 2016

Memorial to the fourth Viscount St Vincent, mortally wounded at the battle of Abu Klea in 1885.

Mark Acton, 2016

First World War memorial.

Mark Acton, 2016

Effigy of knight - one of the Disney (d'Isigny) family - dating from the late thirteenth century.

October 2016

Inscribed slab to John Pindar of 1776.

DB 2 September 2018

Matthew Flinders, who was born in Donington near Spalding (30 miles distant), married in this church in 1801.

He is one of the most notable men of Lincolnshire.

September 2015

Memorial to Rev. William Blandy who died 1865.

DB 2 March 2020

Looking east towards the Pinchbeck Tomb next to the altar.

DB 28 April 2019

Pinchbeck Tomb in the south aisle viewed from the chancel.

"In the south aisle a tomb in the form of an altar with Purbeck marble ledger slab, panelled sides with crocketed ogee pinnacles and armorial shields"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064433 

"15th Century table tomb of Thomas Pynchbecke, whose family links with the village can be traced to 1275.

The tomb contains recesses which once held brass inserts.

The 22 heraldic shields of the de Pynchbecke family, under arches on the Tomb sides, were originally painted"

https://www.glengroup.org.uk/churchbuilding.htm  

DB 1 May 2010

White's Directory of 1856 states :-

"CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, or BLUE COAT SCHOOL, was founded in the year 1602, by Richard Smith, M.D., who bequeathed the manor, and certain lands, at Potter Hanworth, for the erection and endowment of a school, for the maintenance and education of twelve poor boys.

But, the estates having increased considerably in value, since that time, and the charity being augmented by a number of munificent bequests, the governors in 1815, were enabled to increase the number of scholars to fifty, and they have since been augmented by five or ten at a time, till they now amount to 124, who are lodged, maintained, clothed, and educated till they arrive at the age or fourteen or fifteen years, when each is apprenticed, with a premium of £16.

They are admitted between the ages of seven and eight; and are selected from the poorest and most deserving natives of Lincoln, Potter Hanworth, and Welton.

They were formerly dressed like the boys of Christ's Hospital in London, but they now wear more modern clothing.

They are now taught music as well as reading, writing, and arithmetic"

DB 14 February 2019

The Church History by Christopher J. Micklethwaite 2017 states :- :-

"The monument to the Reverend Romaine Hervey (1763 — 1837) is by J. J. Sanders of London who carved a beautiful draped urn in white marble.

Romaine's father, also a clergyman, may have been fathered by Lord Bristol.

Romaine wrote a diary in shorthand of which there is a copy in the parish chest.

He was a friend of the Wesleys and named after a famous 18th century evangelical preacher"

DB 18 November 2019

Memorial to Sir Joseph Banks in St Lawrence's church.

Banks owned an estate in mid-Lincolnshire of which Revesby Abbey was the principal house.

Rod Callow, 2008

Closer view of the Carrera bust of Sir Joseph Banks by John Nost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nost 

"Banks made his name on the 1766 natural history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador.

He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and, after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame.

He held the position of President of the Royal Society for over 41 years.

He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending botanists around the world to collect plants, he made Kew the world's leading botanical gardens.

He is credited for bringing 30,000 plant specimens home with him; amongst them he discovered 1,400"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Banks  

DB 19 April 2019 

"There is one monument in the south aisle under a recess, a C14 lady with her head resting on 2 cushions beneath an ogee canopy on which are carved further small figures, probably of her children"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261821 

DB 6 August 2018

The First World War memorial.

Mark Acton, 2014

"Circular slate plaque to Rev. Arthur Rockcliffe d.1798"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308751 

DB 24 August 2019

Alabaster wall plaque to Norreys Fynes d.1735.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308751 

DB 24 August 2019

"In the nave is a marble plaque to Charles Pilkington d.1798"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308751 

DB 24 August 2019

Part of an eleventh-century coffin lid with foliated cross.

Mark Acton, 2017

"Chancel, carved stone tablet to Robert Cranwell 1776, signed by J Hall of Sleaford"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261375 

DB 21 August 2019

"In the north chapel is the Daubeny tomb of 1370:

alabaster effigy of knight and lady on an elaborately panelled tomb chest, the knight in plate armour with feet on a lion and she in a long dress, cloak and head dress with her feet on a dog"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

"Ornate vesica shaped panel on rectangular field, of orange streaked marble, with trefoiled arch supported on columns and flower and foliate motifs, to Reading Grantham, died 1859, sculpted by P. Belton"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205227 

DB 9 September 2018

"Marble monument with orange streaks, rectangular with eared and shouldered corners containing flower heads, to Margaret Henry, death undated, but probably mid C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205227 

DB 9 September 2018

This small wall-mounted brass memorial at Scampton reads:

Here lies the body of Dame / Catherine Bolles the / only wife of Sr John Bolles / of Scampton Baronet eldest / daughter of Thomas Conyers / of Brodham in the county / of Nottingham Esquire / she departed this life the / 20 day of September at / the age of 55 and was buried / September the 21 / 1644.

May 2015

This small wall-mounted brass memorial at Scampton reads:

Here lies the body of S / John Bolles of Scampton / Baronet who departed / this life the 8 day of March / at the age of 67 and was / buried March the / 9 1648

May 2015

Monument to Richard Nelthorpe, died 1640.

August 2011

Wall tablet in north aisle: to Amaziah Empson, vicar, of 1798, by Fisher of York, with obelisk base, foliate frieze, draped urn and arms.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083718 

DB 14 June 2019

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Monument to Thomas Wyke, a fourteenth century priest, under a crocketed gable.

June 2017

A memorial to an aircraft which crashed during a training flight. The church holds an annual service in memory of those killed.

Mark Acton, 2017

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Memorial to Charles Brackenbury and wife. Charles Brackenbury (d.1816) was the owner of nearby Scremby Hall and the surrounding estate.

He was succeeded by his son and grandson. The Hall was finally demolished in the 1970s.

September 2015

"Marble benefactions tablet, 1717"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236949 

DB 6 February 2019 

The grave slab in the south chapel is to Dorothy Markham (died 1494).

Mark Acton, 2014

This exceptionally long grave cover is mounted on the north wall of the chancel.

March 2017

This monument for Sir Edward Carre (d.1618) and family is close to the south side of the chancel arch.

It was created by Maximilian Colt.

June 2015

One of the fine painted alabaster monuments for members of the St Pol family in Snarford church.

This depicts Robert Lord Rich, Earl of Warwick (d.1619) [He married the widow of Sir George St Pol].

Ken Redmore 2010

Detail of the monument for Robert Lord Rich.

May 2018

Detail of the coat of arms above the monument for Robert Lord Rich, Earl of Warwick (d.1619).

May 2018

The monument to Sir George St Pol (d,1613) and his wife.

May 2018

One of the fine painted alabaster monuments for members of the St Pol family in Snarford church.

This monument is of the wife of Sir George St Pol (d.1613).

Ken Redmore, May 2018

One of the fine painted alabaster monuments for members of the St Pol family in Snarford church.

This one commemorates Sir Thomas St Pol and wife (d.1582)

Ken Redmore, 2010

The north chapel contains this substantial monument by Nicholas Stone of Sir John and Lady Monson, dated 1625.

October 2016

The Cust family memorial.

T R Leach Collection, undated

"A female brass, half life size, with dog"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168707 

DB 14 August 2018 

"On a panel in the south aisle wall a brass to Sir William Skipwith, d.1482 showing the deceased and wife beneath crocketed and pinnacled canopies with children beneath"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168707 

DB 14 August 2018 

"In the south chapel a white marble wall plaque in the Greek Taste to William Burrell Massingberd d.1802, and other members of the family"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168707 

DB 14 August 2018

Memorial plaque, marble and slate, to Revd George Henry Curtois.

July 2012

The memorial window recently fitted in the west wall above the porch entrance. Those shown are:

Trooper George Hemingway, d.1916

Private George Booth, d.1916
Private John Reynolds, d.1914
Lance-Corporal Ben Tate, d.2011
Private Alick Ware, d. 1916
Sapper Harry Amos, d.1917
Private Jim Ellis, d.1917
Flying Officer Reginald Wallace, d,1942

September 2015

A brass plaque on the organ casing is in memory of a choir boy.

It reads: In loving memory / of /  George Cooper Blackbourn / a member of this choir / Drowned in the Welland December 6th 1910 / found January 5th and buried January 7th 1911 / aged 11 years / This memorial is dedicated by the choir / and a few friends

August 2016

The grandiose memorial to Richard Bertie (d 1582) and his wife Catherine (nee Willoughby d 1580).

Catherine had Lincolnshire houses at nearby Eresby and at Grimsthorpe Castle, and was Duchess of Suffolk through her previous marriage to Charles Brandon, the prominent Tudor magnate.

September 2011

See other images of monuments in this church

The (much restored) alabaster monument to Robert, 3rd baron Willoughby (d ?1396) and his wife.  The 3rd lord is said to have fought in France with the Black Prince.

Frank Robinson, 2011

Monument to John, third Baron Willoughby, died 1372.

He distinguished himself in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.

September 2011

The grandiose memorial to Richard Bertie (d 1582) and his wife Catherine (nee Willoughby d 1580).

Catherine had Lincolnshire houses at nearby Eresby and at Grimsthorpe Castle, and was Duchess of Suffolk through her previous marriage to Charles Brandon, the prominent Tudor magnate.

September 2011

Memorial in memory of Captain Sir John Franklin, born in Spilsby 16 April 1786, died in the Arctic seas 11 June 1847, while in command of the expedition which first discovered the north-west passage.

September 2011

Cast bronze portrait plaque in memory of Michael Strich Hutton killed in action 1941 and buried in Libya.

DB 20 May 2018

This board with gilt lettering carries the names of all the local men who served in the First World War.

September 2015

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Coffin lid perhaps from Stixwould Priory.

Mark Acton, 2008

Monument to Sir Edmund Turnor (1619-1707) and his wife Margaret (nee Harrison) (1627-1679).

Formerly of Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, he was the first of the Turnors to occupy Stoke Rochford Hall.

July 2011

Monument to Henry Cholmeley, 1641.

July 2011

In the north chapel, the effigies of a couple under a blanket, dated early 14th century.

July 2011

Memorial to Richard Earle died 1697 aged 24 by Thomas Green of Camberwell.

DB 14 April 2018

"In the vestry is a side wall tomb to William Blyth of Stroxton, d.1648, having shields of arms on the front of and a panel to rear with achievement of arms, cornice and scrolled brackets"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360365 

DB 24 April 2019

Monument to Wiilam Ballett who died in 1648 aged 99. Two wives face him across a prayer desk.

September 2018

Memorial to members of the Tupholme family including Benjamin Tupholme D.D. who for 36 years was Vicar of St Stephens, Ealing died 1912.

DB 28 April 2019

Recently moved into the chancel from the south transept.

"This is said to be an effigy of Alice, wife of Geoffrey Bonewart whose effigy lies to the north. 

An effigy of their son John who was priest here, lies within the altar rail. John died in 1400"

Kelly's Directory 1919 states :-

"in the south transept are three stone monuments, formerly in the churchyard; these consist in each case of a coped tomb, the first of which bears the recumbent effigy of a man in gown and hood, and on the margin is an inscription to John, son of William Bonewort, of Sotton, ob. 1382:

the next tomb supports a recumbent effigy of Alice, wife of the above-named John; the third tomb has the figure of a priest in eucharistic vestments, and is inscribed to John, son of the preceding John Bonewort, and chaplain of Sotton ob. July, 1400"

DB 28 April 2019

Recently moved into the chancel from the south transept.

"This is said to be an effigy of Geoffrey Bonewart, husband of Alice, whose effigy lies to the south. 

An effigy of their son John who was priest here, lies within the altar rail. John died in 1400" 

Kelly's Directory 1919 states :-

"in the south transept are three stone monuments, formerly in the churchyard; these consist in each case of a coped tomb, the first of which bears the recumbent effigy of a man in gown and hood, and on the margin is an inscription to John, son of William Bonewort, of Sotton, ob. 1382:

the next tomb supports a recumbent effigy of Alice, wife of the above-named John; the third tomb has the figure of a priest in eucharistic vestments, and is inscribed to John, son of the preceding John Bonewort, and chaplain of Sotton ob. July, 1400"

DB 28 April 2019

Recently moved into the chancel from the south transept.

An effigy of John Bonewart ,who was priest here, lies within the altar rail. John died in 1400.

Effigies of his parents Geoffrey and Alice are also in the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1919 states :-

"in the south transept are three stone monuments, formerly in the churchyard; these consist in each case of a coped tomb, the first of which bears the recumbent effigy of a man in gown and hood, and on the margin is an inscription to John, son of William Bonewort, of Sotton, ob. 1382:

the next tomb supports a recumbent effigy of Alice, wife of the above-named John; the third tomb has the figure of a priest in eucharistic vestments, and is inscribed to John, son of the preceding John Bonewort, and chaplain of Sotton ob. July, 1400"

DB 28 April 2019

DB 28 April 2019

This thirteenth century statue of Christ at the east end of the north aisle is very fine.

Unfortunately the head has been knocked off.

September 2013

Monument on the north wall of the chancel to Frances Alington, d 1828, and her cousin Revd Henry Alington d 1826.

(E Gaffin made the monument.)

June 2014

This cross-legged knight in chain mail at the west end of the nave dates from the late thirteenth century.

March 2017

Commemorating Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie, Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, sister of the fourth Duke of Ancaster. She died in 1828.

It is the work of James Forsyth in 1883.

March 2017

Monument to the fifth Duke of Ancaster (Brownlow Bertie), who died 1809, by Richard Westmacott the elder.

March 2017

"Grey and white marble monument to Thomas Chaplin, died 1747, by Hoare of Bath, with woman mourning over an urn with a winged hourglass above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359666 

DB 26 May 2019

Tom Thumb, a character from English folklore, has a tiny house in Tattershall Market Place (on the roof ridge).

This is his supposed grave, bearing the inscription: "T Thumb / aged 101 / Died 1620"

September 2010

One of several Tennyson d'Eyncourt memorials in the church - this in memory of Admiral Edwin Tennyson d'Eyncourt & his wife.

"The second son of Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, and a first cousin of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, he entered naval college in 1826 and became a lieutenant in 1837.

He served in the South American, East Indies and China Stations during the 1840s.

In 1854, he served in the Baltic campaign under Sir Charles Napier as captain of the gunboat HMS Desperate, and returned to that theatre in 1855 under Rear-Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas, as captain of the steam frigate HMS Pylades.

From 1859 to 1862 he was captain of the blockship HMS Edinburgh as the guardship at Leith.

He attained the rank of rear-admiral in 1866 and retired in 1870, continuing to rise to the rank of admiral by 1878. He was made a Companion of the Bath in 1873"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Tennyson_d%27Eyncourt 

DB 22 December 2019

Brass plaque, beneath the east window of the south aisle, in memory of Admiral Edwin Clayton Tennyson D'Eyncourt and his wife Lady Henrietta.

There is also a monument to the Admiral and his wife in the chancel. 

DB 22 December 2019

Memorial in black marble to Rev. John Dymoke, died 1821.

Another two similar memorials to Elizabeth Scaman, died 1839 and Thomas Dymoke, died 1837.

All with serpentine heads and aprons.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205243 

DB 18 January 2020

"A grey and white marble monument to Charles Thorpe, died 1845"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205243 

DB 18 January 2020

"Black and white monument with sepulchre and urns, to Rev. John Emeris, died 1819"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205243 

DB 18 January 2020

"Memorials include: one to Edward Dymoke, died 1739, of black marble with seprentine head and coat of armour above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205243 

"to the Memory of Capt'n EDWARD DYMOKE, Cousin of LEWIS DYMOKE of SCRIVELSBY, Champion to KING GEORGE 2nd. Interred March 5th 1739.

Also JOHN DYMOKE Gent, nephew to the above, Interred July 23rd 1748.

Also of Mrs JANE DYMOKE his wife, Interred July 27th. 1745"

A display in the church states "Roundhead helmet, breast and back plates. Perhaps associated with site of the Battle of Winceby 1643 in which Cromwell nearly lost his life. Winceby 6 miles south of Tetford" 

DB 18 January 2020

The figures of a knight, Lambert de Threekingham, and his lady, c.1310.

At his feet are two lions; at hers two puppies.

September 2013

The figures of a knight, Lambert de Threekingham, and his lady, c.1310.

They are larger than life-size: he is 7 feet 6 inches in height.

September 2013

Memorial to those who died in the First World War:

Charles W Blades, Arthur Bradley, Joseph Bradley, Joseph Cordell, William Lamming, Arthur Lawrence, George A Thornley.

'This tablet is erected by their fellow parishioners'

Mark Acton, 2016

In the north aisle is this limestone ledger stone with a sunk relief of a priest wearing vestments and with hands clasped in prayer.

The inscription identifies him as Gilbert de Cumberworth, d 1373.

April 2015

Memorial to Mr Harold Bedson 3rd Officer of the Honourable East India Company's ship Appollo who died at sea November 28th 1819 aged 25 years.

"The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company ... 

The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company.

It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies, and later with Qing China.

The company ended up seizing control over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia, and colonised Hong Kong after a war with Qing China"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company 

DB 8 September 2019

Grave of Edward Dymoke, grandson of the King's Champion, died 1729, aged 73.

Also interred in the grave is his daughter Abigail, died 1708, aged 17.

The slab (of Purbeck Marble) is in the centre of the nave.

August 2011

The coat of arms of the Dymoke family, King's Champions, on the graveslab of Edward Dymoke at Waddingworth.

August 2011

"REMOVED FROM THE SITE OF CATELY ABBEY IN THIS PARISH 1912"

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"About half a mile south-west of the hamlet is the site of Catley Abbey, founded in the time of Stephen, for monks and nuns of the Gilbertine order, by Peter de Belingley, and dedicated to St. Mary; the revenues at the Dissolution were valued at £33; no remains of the buildings, which covered about 5 acres of ground, are now extant, but fragments of stone, exquisitely carved, as well as an ancient key, have been discovered on the spot, and are preserved by the family of the late Mr. E.G. Allen, of Highfield, Metheringham"

DB 10 July 2019

"East wall of chancel has marble memorial to Mary Davenport, died 1737"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063484 

DB 22 December 2019

Sir William Robertson, who was born in Welbourn, was the first and only British Army soldier to rise from Private to Field Marshal. 

He served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Robertson,_1st_Baronet

DB 24 March 2018

This unusual monument at the base of the tower dates from the fourteenth century.

April 2016

"The north chapel contains an important tomb to Sir Richard de Buslingthorpe. c1435, the tomb-chest has 3 shields and quatrefoil panelling between, and is topped with reclining alabaster figures of a knight and his lady"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308424 

DB 29 May 2018

"SACRED to the Memory of, RICHARD CALTHROP an Officer of the ROYAL NAVY who gallantly fought and fell in defence of CHRISTIAN LIBERTY on the dreadful but ever memorable attack upon ALGIERS on the 27th day of August 1816 Aged 25 Years ... "

"The Bombardment of Algiers (27 August 1816) was an attempt by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers.

An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Exmouth bombarded ships and the harbour defences of Algiers.

There was a continuing campaign by various European navies and the American navy to suppress the piracy against Europeans by the North African Barbary states.

The specific aim of this expedition, however, was to free Christian slaves and to stop the practice of enslaving Europeans"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Algiers_(1816) 

DB 31 August 2019

"Monument of white and grey marble to Thomas Rockcliffe, died 1783"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252247 

DB 31 August 2019

Monument to Richard Figg d.1729. 

"In south aisle are 4 wall plaques to the Figg family, 1729, 1762, 1792, 1827.

2 have open pediments with escutcheons, one has scagliola columns and the last an obelisk plus urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165761 

DB 31 August 2020

"In the east wall of the south aisle is set a brass to Henry Millner d,1635, showing a corpse in a winding sheet with arms above and surrounded by an elaborate frame bearing guilloche decoration with cornice"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359477 

DB 19 May 2019

Memorial plaque to John Smith.

Mark Acton, August 2013

This thirteenth century monument of a cross-legged knight lies under a segmental arch.

There two angels by his pillow.

April 2015