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Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, North Chapel, Monument
Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, North Chapel, Monument
Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, North Chapel, Monument

"In the north chapel a small brass wall plaque to Mary Andrews d.1728 with Memento Mori in plain ashlar surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359681?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 September 2022

Addlethorpe, Saint Nicholas, Church, Image, Mary Andrews
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Milnes)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Milnes)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Milnes)

Memorial to Elizabeth the infant daughter of John L. & Frances Milnes died 5 January 1829.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868. 

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Milnes
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)

In memory of George Roberts Gent. who died 1st July 1760.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)

In memory of Winifred Roberts d.1907 and HDR Roberts d.1892 of Thorpe.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)

Memorial to Sidney Townsend "killed in action near Ypres, Belgium 13 May 1915"

His brother Walter Townsend a casualty of the Boxer Rebellion commemorated nearby.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Townsend
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)

Memorial to Walter Townsend "severely wounded during the siege of the Legations at Pekin, China".

"The Battle of Beijing, or historically the Relief of Peking, was the battle fought on 14-15 August 1900 in Beijing, in which the Eight-Nation Alliance relieved the siege of the Beijing Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion. From 20 June 1900, Boxers and Imperial Chinese Army troops had besieged foreign diplomats, citizens and soldiers within the legations of Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain and the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peking_(1900) 

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Walter Townsend, Boxer Rebellion
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorials
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorials
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorials

A group of three memorials on the south side of the nave towards the west end which seem to have been transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Monument (Mangles)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Monument (Mangles)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Monument (Mangles)

Memorial to Rev. Timothy Mangles a former Rector d.1803.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Timothy Mangles
Alford, St Wilfrid, Christopher Memorial
Alford, St Wilfrid, Christopher Memorial
Alford, St Wilfrid, Christopher Memorial

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

December 2014

Alford, St Wilfrid church, Sir Robert Christopher memorial
Allington, Holy Trinity, Monument (Clarke)
Allington, Holy Trinity, Monument (Clarke)
Allington, Holy Trinity, Monument (Clarke)

"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

Allington, Holy Trinity, Church, Monument
Allington, Holy Trinity, Nave
Allington, Holy Trinity, Nave
Allington, Holy Trinity, Nave

Welby family monuments.

DB 3 November 2018

Allington, Holy Trinity, Church, Monument
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Emeris)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Emeris)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Emeris)

"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

Alvingham, Saint Adelwold, church, John Emeris
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Yerburgh)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Yerburgh)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Yerburgh)

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

Alvingham, Saint Adelwold, church
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

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

Mark Acton, 2016

Ancaster, St Martin, Memorial, William Kent Allix, Crimean War
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

"C19 wall plaques to the Allix family of Sudbrook Hall in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422?section=official-list-entry 

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY SOPHIA THE WIFE OF F. W. ALLIX, J.P., D.L. OF WILLOUGHBY, BORN 15TH JANUARY 1820, DIED 16TH SEPTEMBER 1910."

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church image, ALLIX
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

"C19 wall plaques to the Allix family of Sudbrook Hall in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422?section=official-list-entry  

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES HAMMOND ALLIX LIEUT: IN THE GRENADIER GUARDS, AND ELDEST SON OF CHARLES AND MARY ELIZABETH ALLIX, WHO DIED 28TH. JANY. 1830. IN THE 21ST. YEAR OF HIS AGE. FROM THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH, HE WAS THE PRIDE, THE COMFORT, AND THE HAPPINESS OF HIS FAMILY.

"The Lord gave,& the Lord hath taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord""

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church image, CHARLES HAMMOND ALLIX
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

"In LOVING MEMORY OF FREDERICK WILLIAM ALLIX, J.P., D.L. OF WILLOUGHBY. BORN 11TH APRIL 1816. DIED 13TH OCTOBER 1894.

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD."

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Newton)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Newton)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Newton)

South wall of the chancel. 

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF WILLIAM G. T. NEWTON, (LATE OF RAUCEBY LODGE IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN) SON OF WILLIAM AND SARAH NEWTON, OF SUDBROOKE HEATH IN THIS PARISH, WHO DIED AT THE MANOR, OLDCOTES, NOTTS, NOVEMBER 12TH 1873, AGED 38 YEARS."

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, WILLIAM G. T. NEWTON
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Monument (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Monument (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Monument (Allix)

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY CATHERINE ELIZABETH ALLIX WHO DIED MARCH ?? 1842(?) WIFE OF COLONEL CHARLES ALLIX ?? GRENADIER GUARDS BY WHOM THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED ... "

DB 25 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, Allix
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

"Sacred to the Memory of Mr WILLM. BROWN GENT late of this Parish. He departed this Life Sepr, 1st, 1781 ... "

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, William Brown
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

"In Memory of THOMAS BROWN, GENT. late of Willoughby Cottage in this Parish, who died the 13th of August, 1822, in the 66th Year of His Age"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, THOMAS BROWN
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Towne)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Towne)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Towne)

"Sacred to the Memory of BENJ. TOWNE (?) late of Grantham who departed this life the 14th. of Sep 1759 Aged 78"

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, monument
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Monument (Long)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Monument (Long)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Monument (Long)

This tablet with fine trumpeting angel is on the wall of the north aisle and commemorates Elizabeth Long who died in 1743. She was wife of Edward Long.

April 2016

Ancaster, St Martin church, monument, Elizabeth Long, angel, Edward Long
Ancaster, St Martin, Porch, Grave Cover
Ancaster, St Martin, Porch, Grave Cover
Ancaster, St Martin, Porch, Grave Cover

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

May 2015

Ancaster, St Martin church, grave cover
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Blagg)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Blagg)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Blagg)

"Near this place lyeth the Body of JOHN BLAGG Gent. (who was Grandson to Mrs, MARY BLAGG, and Nephew to the late JOHN HERRING Esq.) who departed this life the 22 Day of March 1742 In the 21 year of his Age"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, JOHN BLAGG
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

West end of the south aisle.

Elizabeth Brown d.1764 and her husband John Brown "of Willoughby in this Parish Yeoman"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

In Memory of Thomas Brown d.1796 and Mary Brown d.1765

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, Thomas Brown
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Calcraft)

"IN MEMORY OF JOHN CHARLES LUCAS CALCRAFT ESQRE OF ANCASTER HALL, WHO DIED 29TH OF MARCH 1851, IN THE 81ST YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

AND ALSO OF HIS WIFE SOPHIA LUCAS CALCRAFT, WHO DIED 30TH OF MAY 1837, IN THE 69TH YEAR OF HER AGE"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, CALCRAFT
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Lucas-Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Lucas-Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Lucas-Calcraft)

East end of south aisle above the altar.

"In Memory of MRS CHRISTIAN LUCAS, the WIFE of ANTHONY LUCAS Esq. Of Ancaster-Hall: the Former of whom died 24 Jan, 1784 Aged 49: the Latter 29June 1789 Aged 63.

Also of their Sons, GEORGE and ANTHONY LUCAS-CALCRAFT, Esq. the Former of whom died the 29 Aug. 1789 Aged 23: the Latter, 25 April 1792 Aged 23.

And of JOHN the Son of Lieut General THOMAS CALCRAFT, who died 10 March 1767 Aged 1"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, Lucas-Calcraft
Anwick, St Edith, memorial
Anwick, St Edith, memorial
Anwick, St Edith, memorial

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

Anwick, St Edith, memorial, Henry Ashington
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Ashington)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Ashington)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Ashington)

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

Anwick, Ashington, HMS Captain
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Gardiner)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Gardiner)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Gardiner)

"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

Anwick, Saint Edith, monument, Gerard Gardiner
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THE REV. JAMES GARVEY, M.A. FOR 43 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED JUNE 2OTH 1893. AND OF MARY HIS BELOVED WIFE WHO DIED SEPT 26TH 1880. THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE BY THEIR CHILDREN"

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image, JAMES GARVEY
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

"Sacred to the Memory of The Revd JOHN GRANTHAM, Vicar of CADNEY,and WAYTHE in this COUNTY, and for nearly forty years Curate of this Parish. And of ELIZABETH, his Wife. She died July the 2nd 1819, Aged 61, He April the 14th1820, Aged 70. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths were not long divided"

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Monument (Drury)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Monument (Drury)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Monument (Drury)

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

Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Suzanna Drury
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM WRIGHT, KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE, APRIL 16th 1916. AGED 19 YEARS.

 https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53515

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image, WILLIAM WRIGHT, war memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, North Aisle, Monument (Wray)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, North Aisle, Monument (Wray)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, North Aisle, Monument (Wray)

"fine mid C17 standing ashlar monument bearing traces of painting to Sir William Wray (died 1616) and Lady Frances Wray (died 1647)"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346925?section=official-list-entry 

August 2014

Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Lady Frances Wray, Sir William Wray
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy

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

Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy

"in tower a good early C14 knight effigy with legs crossed and lion at feet"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346925?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image, knight effigy
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass

"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

Ashby Puerorum, Saint Andrew, Church, brass, Richard Lytleburye, Littlebury
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass

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

DB 9 September 2018

Ashby Puerorum, Saint Andrew, Church, brass
Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass memorial
Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass memorial
Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Aswarby, George Bass, memorial
Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass memorial
Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass memorial
Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass memorial

The inscription on the memorial to George Bass.

June 2017

Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass
Aswarby, St Denis, memorial
Aswarby, St Denis, memorial
Aswarby, St Denis, memorial

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

June 2017

* Thomas Campbell (1790-1858) renowned Scottish sculptor

Aswarby, St Denis, monument, Lady Whichcote, Thomas Campbell
Aubourn, St Peter (Old Church), Memorial
Aubourn, St Peter (Old Church), Memorial
Aubourn, St Peter (Old Church), Memorial

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

Aubourn, St Peter church, Frederick Ainslie, memorial
Authorpe, St Margaret, monument
Authorpe, St Margaret, monument
Authorpe, St Margaret, monument

Inscribed memorial in the north wall of the chancel of St Margaret's.

"In Memory of / Frances ye wife of Mr / Geo. White son of / Mr Richd White Re[ctor] / of this parish. She died / 7th October 1738 Age xx / Her two children / and Eliza (?) are interred / with her"

Naomi Field, 1984

Authorpe, St Margaret, Frances White, George White
Bardney, St Lawrence, Statue
Bardney, St Lawrence, Statue
Bardney, St Lawrence, Statue

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."

Bardney, St Lawrence, statue, monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument

Inscription difficult to understand but it seems to mention John Ekins of Ringstead, Northamptonshire with a date of 1671.

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument

Memorial to "MR ROGER STEEVENS" a former rector d. 1712 and other members of his family.

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Boer War Memorial
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Boer War Memorial
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Boer War Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF HENRY MASON WHINCUP ELDEST SON OF JOHN AND ELEANOR WHINCUP OF THIS PARISH WHO HAVING VOLUNTEERED FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR IN THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT FELL A VICTIM TO FEVER AND DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY AT PRETORIA JANUARY 25 1901 AGED 26 YEARS

IN THIS CHURCH WHERE HE WORSHIPPED AND SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS A MEMBER OF THE CHOIR THIS MEMORIAL IS PLACED BY THE PEOPLE OF BARKSTON AND OTHERS WHO HONOURED HIS GALLANTRY AND MOURN HIS LOSS.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE"

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image, boer war memorial
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monument

"In memory of MR. REUBEN CLEVELAND (GENT) who died 27th August 1850; Aged 81 Years and ELIZABETH his widow who died 31st December 1852; Aged 86 Years.

This Tablet is erected by their only child HENRY CLEVELAND A M, for 21 years Rector of this Parish, & afterwards Romaldkirk Yorkshire"

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image, Cleveland, Romaldkirk
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monuments
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monuments
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monuments

"Two fragments of C14 recumbent effigies are built into the blocking of the north door of the nave; one a priest in vestments, the other a laymen, each beneath trefoil heads, the latter having censing angels in the spandrels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Barrowby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Barrowby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Barrowby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

"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

Barrowby, All Saints, Church, MONUMENT, DR THOMAS HURST
Bassingham, St Michael, Monument
Bassingham, St Michael, Monument
Bassingham, St Michael, Monument

A monument to Poole Savage d.1828. 

Pevsner comments "A tablet in the Greek taste by Wray of Lincoln".

DB 20 April 2018

Bassingham, Saint Michael, Church, image, monument, Poole Savage
Baumber, St Swithin, Grave Slab
Baumber, St Swithin, Grave Slab
Baumber, St Swithin, Grave Slab

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

Baumber, St Swithin church, John Eland, monument
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, Memorial

"NEAR THIS PLACE LIES THE BODY OF MR ROBERT HACKET AM OF THE SOCIETY OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE IN OXFORD AND RECTOR OF THIS CHURCH. HE WAS A DECENDANT OF THAT WORTHY AND LEARNED PRELATE OF THE CHURCH DR JOHN HACKET BISHOP OF LITCHFIELD AND COVENTRY. HE DIED DECEMBER THE 19TH 1733 AGED 29"

DB 29 October 2022

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF C. F. ROGERS, AGED 35. ALSO OF S. B. ROGERS, AGED 33. WHO WERE KILLED IN FRANCE DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE"

DB 29 October 2022

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image, war memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorials
Beckingham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorials
Beckingham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorials

The upper memorial reads in part :- 

"In memory of Robert Whittaker, M.A.,of Edymead, Leamington, Honorary Canon of Manchester and Rector of Beckingham. For forty years he was vicar of Leesfield, and a long tme Rural Dean of Oldham. During his brief ministry the Church was thoroughly repaired, the Chancel, Clerestory and Porch restored, the whole interior decorated and the Schools refloored and beautified. Died January 8th 1894 aged 76 years ... "

The lower is a memorial to Thomas Williamson MDCXXXIX (1639). A Rector of Beckingham and Professor of Theology?

DB 29 October 2022

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image
Beckingham, All Saints, Tower, Effigy
Beckingham, All Saints, Tower, Effigy
Beckingham, All Saints, Tower, Effigy

Effigy located under tower - rather hidden by stacked tables and chairs.

"Monument, early C14, defaced effigy of a lady"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360525?section=official-list-entry 

Village history suggests this might be Christiana de Furnival.

http://beckinghamvillage.co.uk/pdfs/history/history.pdf 

DB 11 February 2023

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image, effigy
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial Speaker Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial Speaker Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial Speaker Cust

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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, Memorial Speaker Cust, William Tyler
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Brownlow Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Brownlow Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Brownlow Cust

"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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Brownlow Cust, Richard Westmacott
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel

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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel, Sir Henry Cheere
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel

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

Belton Kesteven, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Memorial HMS Strongbow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Memorial HMS Strongbow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Memorial HMS Strongbow

"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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, war memorial, HMS Strongbow,
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial Henry Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial Henry Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial Henry Cust

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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Emmeline Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John Brownlow

"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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Sir John Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John&Alice Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John&Alice Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John&Alice Brownlow

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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, John & Alice Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial, Richard Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial, Richard Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial, Richard Brownlow

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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Richard Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Nicholas Doyle (Chief Butler)
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Nicholas Doyle (Chief Butler)
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Nicholas Doyle (Chief Butler)

"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

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Nicholas Doyle, Chief Butler, Viscount Tyrconnel
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial

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

DB 9 September 2018

Benniworth, Saint Julian, Church, memorial, Jack Harkness, Japanese prisoner of war
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial Brass
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial Brass
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial Brass

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

Benniworth, Saint Julian, Church
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Boer War Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Boer War Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Boer War Monument

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF FARNDON GROOM MOUNTAIN CORPORAL IN THE 72ND COMPANY IMPERIAL YEOMANRY (ROUGH RIDERS) AND FOR MANY YEARS A CHORISTER OF THIS CHURCH WHO DIED AT PRETORIA IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 18TH DECEMBER 1900 AGED 19"

DB 1 September 2022

Bicker, Saint Swithun Church, image, Boer War Monument, FARNDON GROOM MOUNTAIN
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Monument

"Near the south door a wall monument in the form of an escutcheon with scrolled sides and shield to Rev. Hinckesman d.1744"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062014?section=official-list-entry 

DB 1 September 2022

Bicker, Saint Swithun Church, image, Monument Hinckesman
Billingborough, St Andrew, War Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, War Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, War Memorial

First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Billingborough, First World War
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Chapel
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Chapel
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Chapel

"THIS CHAPEL OF ST.GABRIEL IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF GEORGE FREDERICK SLEIGHT OF BINBROOK HALL. AT REST SEPTEMBER 17th 1954 . AGED 64. MAY HE REST IN PEACE"

DB 3 September 2023

Binbrook, St Mary and St Gabriel Church
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF Sqd/Ldr L.H. GLASSPOOL D.F.C. DIED IN ACTION 27TH APRIL 1944 AGED 24 YEARS. AND HIS BELOVED DAUGHTER JUDITH MAY DIED 27TH APRIL 1979 AGED 37 YEARS."

DB 3 September 2023

Binbrook, St Mary and St Gabriel Church, GLASSPOOL
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, South Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, South Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF MAJOR PETER HENRY WOODTHORPE CLARKE, M.C. THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. OF BINBROOK MANOR, KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMANY 3RD MARCH, 1945, AGED 23 YEARS. SO HE PASSED OVER, AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE."

See also

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53957 

DB 3 September 2023

Binbrook, St Mary and St Gabriel Church, MAJOR PETER HENRY WOODTHORPE
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Ledger Stone

In the Chancel floor an old tomb stone to the wife of Master John Woodruffe who died in 1685. Church guide notes state that this stone was formerly in the nave floor.

DB 3 June 2023

Bitchfield, Saint Mary Magdalen Church, Image, Ledgerstone Woodruffe
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial

"In the north aisle a respositioned brass plaque to Elizabeth Lack, d.l661, with engraved coat of arms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062863?section=official-list-entry 

Church guide notes state "Originally on a stone in the Chancel, this brass was found beneath an old timber floor in the Vestry when it was removed following outbreaks of dry rot in 1958"

DB 3 June 2023

Bitchfield, Saint Mary Magdalen Church, Image, monument, Elizabeth Lack
Blankney, St Oswald, Chancel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chancel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chancel, Memorial

"In loving memory of JOHN OTTER STEPHENS M.A. Priest Honorary Canon Southwark Cathedral Born 26th April 1832 Died 14th Aug. 1925 Rector of this Parish 1879-1903"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, JOHN OTTER STEPHENS
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

"Chantry chapel contains a large Gothick style monument with marble relief of mourning lady to Lady Florence Chaplin, 1851"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064285?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage has "This is a life size figure of Lady Florence kneeling at prayer carved in white marble with a gothic stone surround, by Sir Edgar Boehm. It was made in 1881 to commemorate her death" 

Lady Florence died in childbirth. 

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, Lady Florence Chaplin, Sir Edgar Boehm
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

Plaque below the life size figure of Lady Florence kneeling at prayer.

"LADY FLORENCE CHAPLIN DAUGHTER OF THE THIRD DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, BORN 1855, DIED 1881. ERECTED BY HER HUSBAND HENRY VISCOUNT CHAPLIN"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, LADY FLORENCE CHAPLIN
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

"Small mandala-shaped wall tablet to Caroline Chaplin"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064285?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, Caroline Chaplin
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

"Near this Place are deposited the Remains of Thomas and Jane Porter : The latter died suddenly on the 25th of Decr. 1789 Aged 64 ; The former, long afflicted, departed this Life, on the 14th of August 1800 Aged 76 - He was, 30 Years, Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell; and for forty Years, Rector of this Parish" 

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, Thomas Porter
Blankney, St Oswald, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY SEFTON WHO DIED OCTOBER 4TH 1890 - THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY THE CHAPLIN FAMILY WHOSE DEVOTED NURSE SHE WAS FOR MANY YEARS"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, MARY SEFTON
Blankney, St Oswald, North Aisle, War Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, North Aisle, War Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, North Aisle, War Memorial

A memorial bell was provided after the First World war. An inscription on the bell reads :-

"Thanks be to G0D who giveth us the Victory

A Thankoffering for Peace from the Farmers of Blankney 1919"

Additionally a tablet, pictured here, was provided in the church recording the names of the 12 fallen. A second tablet was added following the Second World War with 3 more names.

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, war memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, East Window, Plaque
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, East Window, Plaque
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, East Window, Plaque

Plaque beneath the east window of the south aisle.

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF EDWARD CHAPLIN * BORN 28TH MARCH 1842 * AT REST 23RD DECEMBER 1883 + THIS WINDOW IS PLACED HERE BY MARY SEFTON HIS FORMER NURSE"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, Memorial

Plaque on the south wall. 

"TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF FRANCIS - 2ND EARL OF LONDESBOROUGH WHO DIED OCTOBER 30TH 1917 AND OF HIS SON GEORGE FRANCIS WHO SUCCEEDED HIM AS 3RD EARL OF LONDESBOROUGH AND WHO DIED AT BLANKNEY - SEPT. 12TH. 1920"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, EARL OF LONDESBOROUGH
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, Font
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, Font
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, Font

"This Font was erected to the Glory of God by Gerald Ward Martin Lieut Bengal Saff Corps in loving memory of his darling wife SUSAN ANNE MARIA MARTIN ...."

Gerald Ward Martin's promotion to Captain was reported in the The London Gazette, September 12, 1879 so the font was presumably installed prior to that date.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24761/page/5456/data.pdf 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Gerald Ward Martin
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial

War memorial tablet on the south wall of the nave. 

"Within the church there is a marble tablet that was unveiled inside the church in 1921 in order to list those who had fallen in the First World War along with a similar tablet to commemorate four members of the Luard family who also died"

https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-alkmund-blyborough 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, war memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial

War memorial tablet on the south wall of the nave. 

"Within the church there is a marble tablet that was unveiled inside the church in 1921 in order to list those who had fallen in the First World War along with a similar tablet to commemorate four members of the Luard family who also died"

https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-alkmund-blyborough 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, war memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Aisle, West Window
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Aisle, West Window
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Aisle, West Window

"At the restoration of this Church AD 1877 the 5 surviving children of JOHN and ELIZABETH LUARD erected the above window in loving memory of their parents and of the uncle who was their father's comrade in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo ... "

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Luard
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF SUSANNAH, SECOND DAUGHTER OF CHARLES DALBIAC ESQ:RE, WHO DIED SEPR: 4TH: 1842, AGED 80 YEARS"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR BELOVED DAUGHTERS, LOUISA & MARIA JANE LUARD, WHO DIED OF SCARLET FEVER, LOUISA ON THE 18TH OF APRIL 1845 AGED 19, AND MARIA JANE, ON THE 27TH OF THE SAME MONTH AGED 16, THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED, BY THE AFFLICTED PARENTS, CHARLES BOURRYAU & HENRIETTA LUARD, OF BLYBOROUGH HALL"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial

"IN THIS VAULT ARE DEPOSITED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF PETER JOHN LUARD, OF BLYBOROUGH (FORMERLY CAPTAIN IN THE 4TH DRAGOONS) WHO DIED MAY 23RD 1830, IN THE 76TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

AND OF HIS WIFE LOUISA LUARD, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CHARLES DALBIAC ESQUIRE, SHE DIED JANUARY 4TH 1831, IN THE 70TH YEAR OF HER AGE.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE BEST OF PARENTS THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED BY THEIR GRATEFUL CHILDREN"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North chapel, Memorial

"To the memory of Charles Bourryan Luard, Esq. of Blyborough Hall, eldest son of Peter John Luard, Esq. and Louisa his Wife, who was born on the 16th day of April 1785 ... died on the 26th day of May 1855 at Torquay, and was buried in the cemetry of that place.

The East window of this Church was errected by subscription from his family, Friends and Tenants"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Luard
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Monument
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Monument
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Monument

"Freestanding tomb in north chapel restored in C19 with effigy of Robert Conyng, priest, died 1434, with damaged angels at pillowed head and griffin at feet"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063375?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage states "The tomb of Robert Conyng, died 1434. His head is supported on a cushion by angels, with a hound at his feet. He is wearing his Mass vestments decorated with water bougets. The inscription reads "Here lies Robert Conyng, sometime rector of this church, who died 3 May 1434. On whose soul God have mercy" 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Robert Conyng
Blyton, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Blyton, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Blyton, St Martin, Chancel, Monument

"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

Blyton, Saint Martin, church
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE REVEREND PENISTON LA TOUR, M.A. RECTOR OF BOOTHBY GRAFFOE IN THIS COUNTY, AND OF SCARBOROUGH IN THE COUNTY OF YORK: AND THE ELDEST SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF MR THOMAS MASON, FORMERLY OF THIS PARISH.

SHE DIED ON THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH 1851, IN THE 61ST YEAR OF HER AGE"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image, PENISTON LA TOUR
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE REVEREND PENISTON LA TOUR, M.A. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, AND OF SCARBOROUGH, IN THE COUNTY OF YORK

SHE DIED ON THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH 1851, IN THE 61ST YEAR OF HER AGE.

SHE WAS A WOMAN OF ENLARGED AND REFINED UNDERSTANDING OF AMIABLE AND BENEVOLENT DISPOSITION, AND OF TRUE PIETY.

THE REBUILDING OF THIS CHURCH WAS ACCOMPLISHED CHIEFLY THROUGH HER ZEAL AND EXERTIONS, AND SHE LAID THE FIRST STONE OF THE PRESENT EDIFICE, ON THE 23RD DAY OF JUNE 1841"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image,PENISTON LA TOUR
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD. PENISTON LA TOUR, M.A. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, AND OF SCORBOROUGH N THE COUNTY OF YORK.

HE WAS BORN ON THE 18TH OF JUNE 1769: WAS INDUCTED TO THE RECTORY OF BOOTHBY GRAFFOE ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE PENISTON, FIRST VISCOUNT MELBOURNE, IN SEPTEMBER 1800, AND DIED ON THE 10TH NOVEMBER 1851"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BLACKWALL, LATE OF WIRKSWORTH,IN THE COUNTY OF DERBY; WHO DIED ON THE 16TH DAY OF OCT. 1838, AGED 79 "BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD""

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image, ROBERT BLACKWALL
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial

Church guide notes state :- 

"An interesting remainder of the earlier churches is under the Tower Window, which bears the following inscription:

INTERRED HERE LIES CHRISTIAN BERESFORDE A VERTUOUS MATRON ONE THAT FEARD THE LORD O DEATH UNCERTAINE THUS FOR TO DECEAVE US AND OF A CHRISTIAN DEARE THUS TO BEREAVE US YET MOURNE NOT CHRISTIANS CHRISTIAN IS NOT DEADE BUT LIKE A CHRISTIAN GONE TO CHRIST HER HEADE

OBIIT ANNO DOMINI 1626 AETATIS VICE SSIMO QUARTO"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image, CHRISTIAN BERESFORDE
Boston, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Founder's Plaque
Boston, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Founder's Plaque
Boston, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Founder's Plaque

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

Boston, Holy Trinity, Church
Boston, St Botolph, Chancel, Choir Stalls, Herbert Ingram
Boston, St Botolph, Chancel, Choir Stalls, Herbert Ingram
Boston, St Botolph, Chancel, Choir Stalls, Herbert Ingram

"Herbert Ingram (27 May 1811 – 8 September 1860) was a British journalist and politician. He is considered the father of pictorial journalism through his founding of The Illustrated London News, the first illustrated magazine. He was a Liberal politician who favoured social reform and represented Boston for four years until his early death in the shipwreck of the Lady Elgin"

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

DB 14 March 2022

Boston, St Botolph church Herbert Ingram
Boston, St Botolph, North Aisle, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, North Aisle, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, North Aisle, Memorial

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

Boston, St Botolph church, Thomas Fydell, Elizabeth, Boston Volunteers
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument

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

Boston, St Botolph, monument, St John of Jersusalem, Maltese cross, William Weston
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument

"This figure is believed to represent Dame Margaret Tilney "who layid the first stone of the goodly steple of the Paroche Church of Boston in 1309. The central shield on the black marble tomb had the arms of Tilney carved upon it in 1852, for which there was no warrant". 

DB 6 November 2019

Boston, St Botolph Church Monument, Dame Margaret Tilney
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, John Taverner
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, John Taverner
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, John Taverner

Memorial in the tower floor of St Botolph's Church, Boston.

"John Taverner (c. 1490 – 18 October 1545) was an English composer and organist, regarded as one of the most important English composers of his era. He is best-known for Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas and The Western Wynde Mass, and Missa Corona Spinea is also often viewed as a masterwork ... 

He is buried with his wife under the belltower at Boston Parish Church"

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

DB 17 March 2022

Boston, St Botolph, Church, John Taverner, composer organist musician
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, Memorial

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

Boston, St Botolph, Australia, Banks, Bass, Franklin
Branston, All Saints, Grave Slab (de Thistleton)
Branston, All Saints, Grave Slab (de Thistleton)
Branston, All Saints, Grave Slab (de Thistleton)

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

Branston, All Saints, Church, monument, Purbeck marble, Richard de Thistleton
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Bertie)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Bertie)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Bertie)

"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 in the north aisle erected by his widow in 1770.

DB 1 December 2018

Branston, All Saints, Church, monument, LORD VERE BERTIE
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Wray)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Wray)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Wray)

Monument "1736 to Sir Cecil Wray by Thomas Carter" in the north aisle

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

Branston, All Saints, Church, Monument, Sir Cecil Wray, Thomas Carter
Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial

In memory of Rev. Charles George Ridley, Rector of Bratoft with Irby d.1897.

His eldest son Nicholas Charles Ridley was a prominent ophthalmologist " a founder and Past President (1915-1917) of the Midland Ophthalmological Society"

http://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/21/8/460.full.pdf 

DB 11 September 2022

Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul Church, Image, Charles George Ridley
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD WRIGHT ESQUIRE, OF BRATTLEBY, AND OF NORTH KELSEY, IN THIS COUNTY, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND DEPUTY LIEUTENANT OF LINCOLNSHIRE, WHO DIED AT BRATLEBY, JUSTLY ESTEEMED AND REGRETTED IN HIS 73RD YEAR, AUG: 9TH 1857. 

HE WAS FORMERLY A CAPTAIN OF MILITIA, BUT PASSED HIS LATER YEARS CHIEFLY IN IMPROVING HIS ESTATES, AS WELL AS THE CONDITION OF ALL AROUND HIM ... "

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial

"TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF PHILIP CHETWOOD WRIGHT OF BRATTLEBY BORN 10 MAY 1866 DIED 22 AUG 1939 GREATLY LOVED HE WAS A DEPUTY LIEUTENANT & JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR LINDSEY & WAS MAJOR IN THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT AND A CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH"

Kelly's Directory 1905 has an entry "Brattleby Hall is the residence of Maj. Philip Chetwood Wright B.A., D.L., J.P., F.S.I. who is lord of the manor and landowner" 

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image, PHILIP CHETWOOD WRIGHT
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Nave, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Nave, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY ANNE, ONLY SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF THE REV. THOMAS DAWSON, SOME TIME INCUMBENT OF HARPSWELL IN THIS COUNTY, WHO DIED ON THE 15TH DAY OF MAY 1851 , AGED 69 YEARS"

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image, memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, North Aisle, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, North Aisle, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, North Aisle, Memorial

"In the Aisle OF THIS CHURCH ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF JOHN SEXTY ESQR. WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 1ST 1820 AGED 61 YEARS TO WHOSE MEMORY HIS WIDOW ERECTS THIS TABLET AS A TOKEN OF HER AFFECTION"

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image, Sexty
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument

"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

Burgh on Bain, Saint Helen, Church
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument

"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

Burgh on Bain, Saint Helen, Church, monument, Thomas Pindar
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy

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

Burton Coggles, St Thomas a Becket
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy

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

Burton Coggles, St Thomas a Becket
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ ELIZABETH CATHERINE YORKE/ RELICT OF THE LATE JAMES WHITING YORKE ESQ/ OF WALMSGATE IN THIS COUNTY/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 26TH DAY OF/ APRIL 1845 IN THE 73RD YEAR OF HER AGE/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED/ AS A LAST THO' INADEQUATE MEMORIAL OF ONE/ WHOSE MATERNAL KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY/ CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BY HER GRATEFUL AND/ AFFECTIONATE SON JAMES WHITING YORKE.

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Hugh Alington
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Hugh Alington
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Hugh Alington

An alabaster tablet with black columns either side and garlands at the foot.   Sadly the inscription is almost illegible but says:

Under this monument lieth interred the body of Hugh Alington of Stenigot in the County Lincoln. Ye son and heir of Henry Allington, Esq. Descended from the family of Alingtons of Horsett in the County of Cambridge who had to wife in second marriage Jane, the daughter of Sir Martin Lister, late of this place Kt. By who he had Issue Hugh and Barbara. Hugh died young in the life time of his father and lieth here also interred. Obijt Junij 3 1674. AETATIS SUAE 39

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Hugh Alington
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister

Matthew Bancroft Lister was born in 1766 and served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. He married Sophia Brinton.   The tablet reads:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ MATTHEW BANCROFT LISTER/ OF BURWELL PARK IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN/WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 14TH OCTOBER 1842/IN THE 77TH YEAR OF HIS AGE/ THIS TABLET IS INSCRIBED/ BY HIS AFFECTIONATE AND GRATEFUL FAMILY/ THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED.

By Bishop of London

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister

An unusual tablet shaped like a sarcophagus surmounted by a draped urn before an obelisk.  

By Whitelaw of New Road, London.

IN MEMORY OF/MATTHEW DYMOKE LISTER ESQR/ WHO DIED FEBRUARY THE 9TH 1772 AGED 39 YEARS/ AND OF LYDIA/ ONLY CHILD OF JOSEPH BANCROFT MERCHANT OF MANCHESTER/ AND WIDOW OF THE ABOVE MATTHEW DYMOKE LISTER,/ (BY WHOM SHE HAD ISSUE, MATTHEW BANCROFT, JOHN JOSEPH, AND LYDIA BOUGHTON/ WHO DIED APRIL THE 28TH 1792 AGED 19 YEARS/ ALSO OF GRACE/ WIDOW OF SIR EDWARD BOUGHTON BART OF LAWFORD IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICK/ WIFE OF MATTHEW LISTER ESQR/ AND MOTHER OF THE ABOVE MATTHEW DYMOKE LISTER/ WHO DIED IN FEBRUARY 1779 AGED 77 YEARS/ THE ABOVE WERE BURIED IN THE VAULT UNDERNEATH/ ALSO IN MEMORY OF MATTHEW LISTER ESQR/ WHO DIED JANUARY THE 15TH 1786 AGED 79 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS/ AND WAS BURIED AT BRANT BROUGHTON, IN THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM/ THIS MARBLE IS ERECTED BY THEIR DESCENDANT/ NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRAWING FORTH THEIR MERITS OR OF RECORDING/ THEIR VIRTUES BUT AS AN HUMBLE AND GRATEFUL TRIBUTE OF/ AFFECTION TO THEIR MEMORY

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Effigy
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Effigy
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Effigy

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

Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Sir John de Buslingthorpe, effigy, Willson
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Memorial Brass
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Memorial Brass
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Memorial Brass

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


Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Sir Richard Boselyngthorpe, brass
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, Nave, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, Nave, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, Nave, Memorial

Located near the chancel arch on the wall of the south arcade. 

"IN MEMORY OF SARAH MARIA WIFE OF GEORGE SILLS OF HONINGTON SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 27TH OF AUGUST 1841 AT THE AGE OF 31 AND HER REMAINS WERE DEPOSITED IN THIS CHURCH YARD."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Memorial

"Marble wall plaque on north wall of north aisle to John Peachell, Gent., d. 1727, with open pediment, urns and floriated cartouche containing painted arms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry  

"HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF JN. PEACHELL GENT AND SUSANNA HIS WIFE, HE DIED JAN: 17, 1727. ÆTAT: SUA 03. SHE QUITTED THIS MORTAL LIFE APRIL 13, 1782. AT THE AGE OF NINETY.

HERE ALSO LIES THE BODY OF LEWIS PEACHELL GENT: THEIR SON, WHO DIED NOV: 30. 1770. AGED 54.

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED TO THEIR MEMORY BY THE PIETY OF ANNE HERON, DAUGR. OF THE ABOVE JOHN & SUSANNA, WHO DIED NOV: 22, 1786. AGED 68 AND WAS INTERR'D AT WESTBORO IN THIS COUNTY."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF HAROLD FOOTITT. LANCE CORPORAL SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY WHO LOST HIS LIFE ON THE 26TH OCTOBER 1945, WHILST SERVING WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN GERMANY. GIVEN BY THE PARISHIONERS."

For further information see  

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54190 

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"three spirited though barbarous early C18 wall tablets with an urn, Death's Head, Cherubs and pyramidal pinnacles, all in the south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry  

The inscription appears to read :-

"In This Me Lyes three Children of Thomas Hurst GENT, & Anne his Wife Viz. CHARLES ANNE & WILLIAM who all Dyed in their infancy William the Last Interr,d ye 17th of January 1720

THOMAS HURST Esqr Father of these Children who departed this Life Feb.r ye 5. 1737 And lies Buried by them In this ile."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"three spirited though barbarous early C18 wall tablets with an urn, Death's Head, Cherubs and pyramidal pinnacles, all in the south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry 

"Near This place lyes Interred ye body of Lewis Hurst Esq who Departed this life May ye 24th 1714 & in ye 59th year of his Age"

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church, Lewis Hurst
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"three spirited though barbarous early C18 wall tablets with an urn, Death's Head, Cherubs and pyramidal pinnacles, all in the south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry 

"Under this place lies ye body of Mrs Alice Hurst Wife of Lewis Hurst Gent, who Departed this life July ye 21st, 1700. & in ye 34th year of her Age."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church, Alice Hurst
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Plaque
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Plaque
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Plaque

Commemorative plaque inside the church.

October 2016

 

Carlton le Moorland, St Mary
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate

"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

Carlton le Moorland, Saint Mary, church, brass, Robert Peterson, Disney
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate

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

Carlton le Moorland, Saint Mary, church, brass
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plates
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plates
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plates

"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

Carlton le Moorland, Saint Mary, church, brass, Eastland, Tonge
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Chancel, Edmund Weaver Memorial
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Chancel, Edmund Weaver Memorial
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Chancel, Edmund Weaver Memorial

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

Caythorpe, Saint Vincent, Church, Edmund Weaver, astronomer, land surveyor, Stukeley, ephemerides
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Nave, Hussey Monument
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Nave, Hussey Monument
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Nave, Hussey Monument

The monument to Sir Charles Hussey who died in 1664.

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

January 2018

Caythorpe, St Vincent, Sir Charles Hussey, W Palmer
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to Robert Featherby, died 1834, of ashlar with inner 4 centred arch and angel brackets below"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM FEATHRBY, LATE ALDERMAN OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN, WHO TWICE SERVED THE OFFICE OF MAYOR HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH THE 26TH 1829, AGED 63 YEARS. 

ALSO OF SUSANNA,WIFE OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM FEATHERBY, WHO DIED NOVR. THE 30TH 1846, AGED 82 YEARS"

DB 14 May 2022

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to John Harrowsmith, died 1840. Limestone ashlar with ornate crocketed and finialled gable, inner pointed cusped arch with nook shafts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image, John Harrowsmith
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to Henry Hutton, died 1836, with grey marble shaped ground, white marble tomb chest with beribboned palms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022 

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, Henry Hutton
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REVD. GEORGE RIGG, VICAR OF THIS PARISH FOR TWENTY YEARS,WHO DIED IN THE COUNTY OF KENT ON GOOD FRIDAY THE 10TH APRIL 1868, AGED 63 YEARS, AND WAS INTERRED AT KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY LONDON. 

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE BROTHER AND SISTER" 

DB 14 May 2022 

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, Ggeorge Rigg
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to Thomas Becke, died 1757, founder and patron of the church who made a fortune in law 'without the sordid means of avaricious parsimony'. Ornate broken pediment with central cartouche with coat-of-arms. Flanking fluted ionic pilasters with central round headed niche with ornate keystone. Large moulded apron"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022 

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, Thomas Becke
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Ledger Slab
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Ledger Slab
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Ledger Slab

"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

Clixby, All Hallows, Church, ledger slab, Robert Blanchard
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Monument
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Monument
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Monument

In memory of Agnes Dennison Hutchinson d.1922.

DB 19 May 2019

Clixby, All Hallows, Church
Coates by Stow, St Edith, memorial
Coates by Stow, St Edith, memorial
Coates by Stow, St Edith, memorial

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

Coates By Stow, St Edith church monument, Brian Cooke, Henry Riley
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

Monument to Mary Lister d.1734.

Coleby Hall was built by the Listers in 1628. Kelly's Directory 1919 states "The Listers of Coleby filled the office of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in the years 1624, 1625, 1644, 1669 and 1696, and Thomas Lister was in 1651 and 1653 a member of Cromwell's Council of State"

DB 9 May 2018 

Coleby, Kesteven, Church, All Saints, Image, Monument, Mary Lister
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Restoration
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Restoration
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Restoration

Brass plaque recording restoration of the chancel "SET IN ORDER ANEW AD 1864".

"Church restored carefully by F C Penrose in 1864"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1164829 

Kelly's Directory 1930 states " further improvements, including a restoration of the chancel, were carried out in 1864, under the direction of F. C. Penrose esq. architect, mainly as a memorial to the Rev. T. T. Penrose, for 33 years vicar of the parish, and the circumstances of this restoration are set forth in an inscription on brass from the pen of the late Right Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge kt. chief justice of the Queen's Bench"

DB 9 May 2018 

Coleby, Kesteven, Church, All Saints, Image
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, grave slab
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, grave slab
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, grave slab

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

Colsterworth, William Walker
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, Isaac Newton's Sundial
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, Isaac Newton's Sundial
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, Isaac Newton's Sundial

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

Colsterworth, St John baptist, church, Isaac Newton, Sundial, C.TURNOR, WILLIAM ERLE
Coningsby, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Coningsby, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Coningsby, St Michael, Chancel, Monument

"Marble wall plaque in chancel, in Greek taste to Mary and John Burnham, d.1841"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215652?section=official-list-entry 

DB 23 March 2022

Coningsby, St Michael, Church, monument, Burnham
Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Monument
Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Monument
Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Monument

"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

Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Church, monument
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"A marble wall tablet in Greek taste to Sir John Beckett d.1847 is grouped with 3 other C19 Beckett memorials in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064162?section=official-list-entry  

"THE RIGHT HONBLE SIR JOHN BECKETT, BART. OF SOMERBY PARK. IN THIS COUNTY; A BENCHER OF THE INNER TEMPLE, AND FORMERLY A FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. HE WAS BORN MAY 17TH 1775, DIED MAY 31ST 1847, AGED 72 YEARS . 

EMINENT AS A SCHOLAR, A LAWYER, AND A POLITICIAN. HE FILLED VARIOUS OFFICES IN THE STATE WITH FIDELITY AND HONOR, AND WAS A PRIVY COUNCELLOR FOR THE LONG PERIOD OF THIRTY YEARS. 

HE WAS HONORED BY THE REGARD AND FRIENDSHIP OF TWO SUCCESSIVE SOVEREIGNS, AND LIVED ON TERMS OF CLOSE INTIMACY, WITH THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS CHARACTERS OF HIS DAY. 

HIS VARIOUS KNOWLEDGE AND DISCERNING JUDGMENT MADE HIM MOST VALUABLE IN COUNCIL. HE WAS ALIKE DISTINGUISHED FOR THE INFLEXIBILITY OF HIS PRINCIPLE. HIS EARNEST ZEAL IN SUPPORT OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH HIS UPRIGHTNESS AND INTEGRITY AS A PUBLIC MAN, AS FOR THE UNVARYING COURTESY AND KINDNESS WITH WHICH HE FULFILLED ALL THE DUTIES OF PRIVATE LIFE 

HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE VAULT OF HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER, EDMUND, LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, AT FULHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, AND THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW, THE LADY ANNE BECKETT; FOURTH DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF LONSDALE, K.G." 

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, Sir John Beckett
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD GEORGE BECKETT, M.A. LATE OF TRIN. COLL. CAMBRIDGE. YOUNGEST SON OF SIR JOHN BECKETT BART. OF LEEDS, AND OF SOMERBY PARK, IN THIS PARISH. HE WAS PREBENDARY OF CORRINGHAM CUM STOW, RECTOR OF EPWORTH, AND VICAR OF GAINSBOROUGH.

HE WAS A LEARNED DIVINE AND AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND WAS MUCH LOVED IN PRIVATE LIFE FROM THE BENEVOLENCE OF HIS DISPOSITION.

HE DIED IN LONDON, AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS, ON THE 13TH OF APRIL 1843, IN THE 51ST YEAR OF HIS AGE. HIS REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED AT FULHAM, IN MIDDLESEX, IN THE VAULT OF HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER, EDMUND, LORD BISHOP OF LONDON"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, GEORGE BECKETT
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR JOHN BECKETT BART, OF SOMERBY PARK IN THIS PARISH AND OF LEEDS IN THE COUNTY OF YORK, HE DIED SEPR 18TH 1826, IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF DAME MARY BECKETT, RELICT OF THE ABOVE NAMED SIR JOHN BECKETT, SHE DIED FEBRY 21ST 1833 IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HER AGE.

THEIR REMAIN ARE DEPOSITED IN THE CHOIR OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF LEEDS

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, SIR JOHN BECKETT
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"To the glory of God and in memory of Sir Thomas Beckett Bart. of Somerby in this Parish. Born 1st January 1779 Died 17th Novr 1872. The east window in the chancel of this Church is erected by his daughters Mary Beckett + Dame Elizabeth Bacon"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, Sir Thomas Beckett
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"In the north wall is a C17 brass to Clifford"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064162?section=official-list-entry 

White's Directory 1856 notes "One of the monuments, dated 1628, has kneeling figures of the Rev. Henry Clifford, his wife, and three sons"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, brass Clifford
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"In the north wall is ... an unusual painted metal panel dated 1631 with decorated borders and shield"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064162?section=official-list-entry

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, War Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, War Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, War Memorial

"SACRED to the Memory of RICHARD BECKETT of the Coldstream Regiment of Guards who fell at the Battle of Talavera de la Reyna in SPAIN, on the 28th of July 1809, aged 27 Years.

He was killed by a Musket Shot while actively discharging his Duty as Brigade Major to the Brigade of Guard, which formed Part of the British Army in that memorable Engagement. 

"Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori",

This Tablet is erected by the afflicted Father of a dutiful and dearly beloved Son" 

Google Translate renders the Latin phrase as "It is sweet and glorious to die for the fatherland".

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, RICHARD BECKETT, Battle of Talavera
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF SIR THOMAS BECKETT BARONET, OF SOMERBY PARK IN THIS COUNTY. HE WAS BORN JANUARY 1ST 1779 AND DIED NOVEMBER 17TH 1872. HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN A VAULT IN THE CHANCEL OF THIS CHURCH. 

HE SUCCEEDED HIS BROTHER THE RIGHT HONBLE SIR JOHN BECKETT BARONET, IN 1847; HE COMMENCED THE INCLOSURE OF HIS ESTATES IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD IN 1848: THIS WORK HE LIVED TO SEE COMPLETED.

THIS TABLET WAS, ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY, BY THE TENANTS OF HIS CORRINGHAM AND SPRINGTHORPE ESTATES, AS A TOKEN OF THE HIGH ESTEEM IN WHICH HE WAS HELD BY THEM AS A LANDLORD.

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, SIR THOMAS BECKETT
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Reredos
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Reredos
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Reredos

Plaque attached to the wooden reredos. 

"TO THE MEMORY OF THE AIRCREW WHO DIED ON A TRAINING FLIGHT OVER CORRINGHAM ON 16 DECEMBER 1943"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, war memorial
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"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


Covenham St Mary, Church
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Tomb Recess
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Tomb Recess
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Tomb Recess

"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

Covenham St Mary, Church
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, First World War memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial

Flying Officer Rene Jean Charles Alfred Dupraz was on a training exercise flying from RAF Kirton in Lindsey. He lost control flying in bad weather and the Spitfire dived into the ground. He was 23.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, war memorial plaque, Rene Jean Charles Alfred Dupraz
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial

Croft All Saints John Searby tablet.

A simple marble plaque with gold lettering which reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JOHN SEARBY OF CROFT/ BORN JANUARY 24TH 1854,/ DIED JULY 22ND 1934/ CHURCHWARDEN 1889-1916

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, John Searby
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass

Late thirteenth or early fourteenth century brass of a knight wearing chain mail. Only the head, shoulders and arms are preserved from what at one time was probably a complete figure.

This is said to be one of the four or five earliest surviving brasses in England.

May 2016

Croft, All Saints, brass, chain mail
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass

The brass inscription from a memorial to the vicar's wife from the early seventeenth century.

May 2016

Croft, All Saints, brass, Agnes Worship, William Worship
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)

Alabaster monument to John Browne (died 1614).

Mark Acton, 2016

Croft, All Saints, monument, John Browne
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)

An alabaster monument to John Browne, one of the seven sons of Valentine Browne, who died in 1614 and his wife Cicely. Unlike the other similar monument to his parents no children are depicted below the adult figures. Sad to say, the crack in the wall to the left of the monument has still not been repaired since being photographed in 2016.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, John Browne Monument
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)

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

Mark Acton, 2016

Croft, All Saints, Monument, Sir Valentine Brown
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)

Croft All Saints Valentine Browne monument

Within the sanctuary to the north of the altar is the alabaster monument to Valentine Browne who died in 1600, and his wife Elizabeth with a seemingly tall family of eight sons and seven daughters depicted in the lower panels.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, Valentine Browne monument
Croft, All Saints, Monument (William Bonde)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (William Bonde)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (William Bonde)

Rather squeezed into the junction of the south chapel and the chancel arch is this relatively plain monument to William Bonde who died in 1559.

It consists of a high plinth with geometric shallow moulding, a text panel between two columns and above, a skull and a coat of arms.

The inscription reads: HERE LYETH WILLYAM BONDE GENTLMAN,/ WHOE DYED ANO DOM 1559 LEAVING TWO/ SONNES, NICHOLAS DOCTOR IN DIVINITIE,/ AND GEORGE DOCTOR IN PHYSICKE, THE/ ELDER SONNE, WHO DYED THE ……………./ ……. ET ETATIS … AND HERE IS BURYED./ WHICH IN REMEBRANCE OF HIS MOST KYND/ FATHER HATH ERECTED THIS LYTLE MONIMENT.

Nicholas Bonde was President of Magdalen College Oxford 1590-1608.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, William Bonde monument
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King
A memorial of 1631 to Julyan Llandon
Dalby,
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Memorial (Llanden)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Memorial (Llanden)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Memorial (Llanden)

This monument is in memory of William Llanden, who died in 1621, and his wife.

September 2021 

Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King
Denton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument

"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

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument

"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

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, Richard Welby, Monument, Thomas Green
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument

"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

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, Monument, Susannah Gregory, Thomas Taylor
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument

"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

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, monument, Johannes Blyth
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument

More modern Welby memorial in the form of a comet.

DB 16 September 2018

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, Welby, memorial
Doddington,&nbspSt&nbspPeter, Monument
Doddington, St Peter, Monument
Doddington, St Peter, Monument

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

Doddington, St Peter, Church, Monument, 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
Donington on Bain, St Andrew, Memorial
Donington on Bain, St Andrew, Memorial
Donington on Bain, St Andrew, Memorial

"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

Donington On Bain, Saint Andrew, church, Thomas Kent, Poet, memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Matthew Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Matthew Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Matthew Flinders

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

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Captain Matthew Flinders RN, Australia, Mauritius
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial

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

Dunholme, Saint Chad, church, Matabeleland Rebellion
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial

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

North side of sanctuary. 

DB 23 March 2020

Dunholme, Saint Chad, church
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Monument

"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

Dunholme, Saint Chad, church, Robert Grantham, monument
Dunston, St Peter, Nixon Memorial Tablet
Dunston, St Peter, Nixon Memorial Tablet
Dunston, St Peter, Nixon Memorial Tablet

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

Dunston, Saint Peter, Church, Nixon
Eagle, All Saints, norman masonry
Eagle, All Saints, norman masonry
Eagle, All Saints, norman masonry

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

October 2016

Eagle, All Saints, norman masonry
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Bertie, Lindsey
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Edenham, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Burrell
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Edenham, Burrell, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, Monument
Edenham, St Michael, Monument
Edenham, St Michael, Monument

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

May 2018

Edenham, Bertie, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

May 2018

Edenham, Bertie, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument of 1738 to seven members of the Bertie family.

May 2018

Edenham, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

May 2018 

Edenham, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

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

Edenham, St Michael, monument, Elizabeth Aveland, Willoughby de Eresby, Great Chamberlain, Drummond
Edlington, St Helen, Chancel, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, Chancel, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial to Ann Hassard and other family members.

DB 6 February 2020

Edlington, Saint Helen, Church, Ann Hassard
Edlington, St Helen, South Aisle, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, South Aisle, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, South Aisle, Memorial

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

Edlington, Saint Helen, Church, Memorial, John Hassard Short
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument

"In the chancel the early C14 founder's tomb recess has a continuously moulded arched head, pinnacles and gablet.

It now contains an effigy to the 12th Earl of Winchelsea, d.1898, clad in state robes"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360562 

DB 25 April 2021

Ewerby, Saint Andrew Church Image, Monument 12th Earl of Winchelsea
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monuments
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monuments
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monuments

"In the chancel are various rectangular brass panels with raised letter inscriptions to members of the Finch Hatton family, Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360562 

DB 25 April 2021

Ewerby, Saint Andrew Church Image, Finch Hatton, Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham
Ewerby, St Andrew, North Chapel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, North Chapel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, North Chapel, Monument

"In the recess an elevated carving of a recumbent knight in plate armour with surcoat, feet resting on a lion, pot helmet, hands and sword missing, though the sword belt bears a lion buckle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360562 

Kelly's Directory 1919 has "fine arched tomb, with the recumbent effigy of a knight in chain mail, said to represent Sir Alexander Aunsell"

Pevsner comments "monument to Sir Alexander Aunsell who died in 1360. Effigy under a low, finely moulded arch. The date may refer to the church as a whole".

DB 25 April 2021

Ewerby, Saint Andrew Church Image, Monument Sir Alexander Aunsell
Farforth, St Peter, Ledger
Farforth, St Peter, Ledger
Farforth, St Peter, Ledger

Also saved from the earlier church is this ledger for Ann Mosley "who departed this life Feb ye 17th 1742 Aged 17". 

In an engraved circle are the cross and three nails of Christ's crucifixion and the letters "IHS", the first three letters of Jesus in Greek.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, Mosley
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet

G H Browne was the tenant of Maidenwell farm from c 1860, when the Allenby family moved from Maidenwell to Cadwell Hall. 

The Brownes remained at Maidenwell into the 20th century when the Clarke family began their tenancy.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, G H Browne
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet

This small tablet is in memory of a baby.  It reads;

Here/ lyeth the/ Body of Jho/ Son of Geo:/ Dunham &/ Mary his W/ife Enterd/ Feb ye 29 1725/ Aged 6/ Months/ Momento Mori.

It has an attractive border of tulips, daisies and thistles.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, Dunham
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet

William John Oslear and his wife Frances lived at Farforth House, just below the church, and the rebuilding of St Peter's in 1861 was partly funded by their executors.  The text is becoming difficult to read, but it says:

To/ the glory of/ GOD/ and in memory of/ William Oslear/ who died April XXIXth MDCCCLVIII/ and/ Frances Oslear/ his wife/ who died May XIXth MDCCCLVIII/ each aged/ LXX years

It is said that the family name had been Osley and that the family had been associated with Farforth for over 150 years.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, Oslear
Fillingham, St Andrew, memorial
Fillingham, St Andrew, memorial
Fillingham, St Andrew, memorial

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

Fillingham, St Andrew church
Folkingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Folkingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Folkingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument

"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

Folkingham, Saint Andrew, Church, Sutton
Folkingham, St Andrew, South Aisle, John Rogeley
Folkingham, St Andrew, South Aisle, John Rogeley
Folkingham, St Andrew, South Aisle, John Rogeley

"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

Folkingham, Saint Andrew, Church, John Rogeley
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Thomas Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Thomas Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Thomas Allenby)

In memory of Thomas Allenby d.1832 and family.

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, Thomas Allenby
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (William Everitt Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (William Everitt Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (William Everitt Allenby)

In memory of William Everitt Allenby d.1824 and family. 

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, William Everitt Allenby
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial (Robert Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial (Robert Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial (Robert Uvedale)

Beneath the Uvedale cross the Latin inscription records ‘Here lies the body of Robert Uvedale A.M. for 38 years vicar of this parish. He died on the 28th day in the month of July in the year of our Lord 1856 aged 75. May his soul be with God. Also Agnes Diana Ashton great niece of the above aged 5 months. This tablet is erected by his affectionate sister Diana West

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Robert Uvedale
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial Ernest Haddon Owen)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial Ernest Haddon Owen)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial Ernest Haddon Owen)

In dear memory of/ Ernest Haddon Owen, Lieut./ 3rd Lincolns, attd 1st South Wales Borderers./ Born Feb. 4. 1886. Fell in action at Festubert/ Dec 21st 1914./ Sursum Corda. 

Sursum corda, literally ‘Up hearts’ is the opening of the eucharistic prayer and is translated into English as ‘Lift up your hearts’.

Ernest is recorded on a CWG in the Louth town cemetery and an image of the stone can be seen at: 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/96228

His photograph can be found at:

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/3351589

He was a solicitor and partner in the Louth practice of Haddon Owen.

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Ernest Haddon Owen, war memorial
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Charlotte Mitchell)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Charlotte Mitchell)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Charlotte Mitchell)

The arms at the top are divided to show the Mitchell arms to the left and the Uvedale arms to the right.

The text reads: Sacred/ to the Memory of/ Mrs Charlotte Mitchell/ relict of Mr John Mitchell/ of Boston, Merchant,/ and daughter of the/ Rev. Robert Uvedale DD/ Rector of Langton near Spilsby/ and Vicar of Swineshead,/ by Diana his wife, Daughter of/ Bennet Langton, of Langton,/ Esquire./ She died at Louth,/ August 29, 1826, aged 55,/ and is buried here./ This Tablet was erected/ by her Affectionate Brothers,/ the Rev. Robert Uvedale M.A./ Vicar of this Parish & of Hogsthorpe,/ and the Rev. Washbourne Uvedale B.A./ Vicar of Kirmond and of Markby/ in this County.

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Charlotte Mitchell
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Thomas Jacob Freeth)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Thomas Jacob Freeth)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Thomas Jacob Freeth)

This memorial documents the career of Revd Thomas Jacob Freeth who was vicar of the parish for 47 years. It records that: "This church was rebuilt and the vicarage house erected through his exertions. He also greatly improved and extended the churchyard where his remains are interred.”

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Thomas Jacob Freeth
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Edward Cordeaux)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Edward Cordeaux)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Edward Cordeaux)

"IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF EDWARD KYME CORDEAUX, C.B.E., D.L. OF BRACKENBOROUGH LAWN, COLONEL, THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT, HIGH SHERIFF OF LINCOLNSHIRE 1925, BORN 7TH DECEMBER 1866, DIED 16TH JULY1946, AND OF HIS WIFE HILDA ELIZA AGAR CORDEAUX, M.B.E. BORN 27TH OCTOBER 1870, DIED 3RD APRIL 1946. 

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, EDWARD KYME CORDEAUX
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Sophia Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Sophia Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Sophia Uvedale)

Miss SOPHIA UVEDALE Died at Fotherby Feby, 18th, 1813 AGED 63.

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, Sophia Uvedale
Friesthorpe, St Peter, Beechey Memorial
Friesthorpe, St Peter, Beechey Memorial
Friesthorpe, St Peter, Beechey Memorial

All eight sons of Revd P W T Beechey and his wife Amy served in World War I.

The five who died in service - ranging in age from 26 to 39 - are commemorated in this plaque on the south wall of the chancel.

August 2020
Friesthorpe, Beechey boys brothers
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Charles Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Charles Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Charles Fane

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

Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial, Colonel Charles Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Fane Family
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Fane Family
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Fane Family

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

Fulbeck, Saint Nicholas, Church, Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Neville Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Neville Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Neville Fane

"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

Fulbeck, Saint Nicholas, Church, Neville Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Thomas Ball
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Thomas Ball
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Thomas Ball

"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

Fulbeck, Saint Nicholas, Church, Sir Francis Fane, Thomas Ball
Fulletby, St Andrew, Floor Slab
Fulletby, St Andrew, Floor Slab
Fulletby, St Andrew, Floor Slab

"Remains of seventeenth-century floor slab in the chancel"

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

"DEPOSITUM RICHARDI DU-GARD"

DB 18 February 2020

Fulletby, Saint Andrew, Church, Floor Slab, RICHARDI DU-GARD
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial (Frewer)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial (Frewer)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial (Frewer)

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

Fulletby, Saint Andrew, Church, John Frewer, Bishop North West Australia
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial Plaque (Winn)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial Plaque (Winn)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial Plaque (Winn)

Henry Winn (1816-1914) lived his whole life in Fulletby where he worked as Sunday School teacher, churchwarden, parish constable and Overseer of the Poor. 

Most notably he served as Parish Clerk from the age of 14 until he was 94.

He wrote prose and poetry about the Lincolnshire countryside, some of which was published in local newspapers.

August 2019

Fulletby, Henry Winn
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy

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

Fulstow, St Lawrence church, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy

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

Fulstow, St Lawrence church, effigy
Gainsborough, All Saints, Headstone
Gainsborough, All Saints, Headstone
Gainsborough, All Saints, Headstone

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

Gainsborough, All Saints, church, Richard Rollett, Sail Maker, HMS Resolution, Captain James Cook
Gainsborough, All Saints, Memorial Tablet
Gainsborough, All Saints, Memorial Tablet
Gainsborough, All Saints, Memorial Tablet

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

Gainsborough, All Saints, church, Francis Elliott, DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, JUBALAND, SERENLI, BARDERA
Gautby, All Saints, memorial
Gautby, All Saints, memorial
Gautby, All Saints, memorial

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

Gautby, All Saints church, memorial, Thomas Vyner, Lord Mayor of London, St Mary Woolnoth church
Gautby, All Saints, monument
Gautby, All Saints, monument
Gautby, All Saints, monument

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

Both monuments are attributed to Jasper Latham.

July 2017

 

Gautby, All Saints, monument, Jasper Latham
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monument

"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

Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Church, Ann Tourney
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Vestry, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Vestry, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Vestry, Monument

"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

Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Church, brass
Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson Memorial

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

Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Wray Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Wray Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Wray Memorial

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

Glentworth, St Michael church, Wray memorial
Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, South Transept, Effigies
Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, South Transept, Effigies
Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, South Transept, Effigies

"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 

Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, Church
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial

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

Goulceby, All Saints, church, Edward Cawdron Cordeaux, High Sheriff, Cordeaux Academy
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial

A simple framed metal plaque on the north wall of the nave in memory of a former churchwarden.

Now rather hard to decipher, it reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ and in loving memory of/ Henry Broughton/ many years/ Churchwarden of the Parish/ Called into rest 7th January 1890,/ aged 90

Jean Howard, October 2023

Goulceby, All Saints, church, Henry Broughton
Grainthorpe, St Clement, Chancel, Monument
Grainthorpe, St Clement, Chancel, Monument
Grainthorpe, St Clement, Chancel, Monument

"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

Grainthorpe, Saint Clement, church
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Middlemore Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Middlemore Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Middlemore Monument

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

Grantham, Saint Wulfram Church, Elizabeth Middlemore, monument, William Stanton
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Ryder Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Ryder Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Ryder Monument

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

The sculptor was Henry Cheere.

March 2017

Grantham, St Wulfram church, memorial, Sir Dudley Ryder, Henry Cheere
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, Saint Radegund Church, Image
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument

"IN MEMORY OF EDWARD ADRIAN WOOORUFFE PEACOCK, PRIEST, RECTOR OF GRAYINGHAM 1919-1922"

DB 15 May 2022

Grayingham, Saint Radegund Church, Image
Grayingham, St Radegund, War Memorial
Grayingham, St Radegund, War Memorial
Grayingham, St Radegund, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Grayingham, St Radegunda, First World War Memorial, Sydney Douglas
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque

This handsome corbel is on the north of the chancel arch close to the organ and is thought to depict Revd Frederic Pretyman. The plaque is in memory of Edith Smith who was organist for 40 years.

Jean Howard, June 2021

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, corbel, Pretyman, Edith Smith
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Monument to Frederic Pretyman.
 
On the north wall of the chancel are two monuments to Frederic Pretyman and his wife. Frederic Pretyman was a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, grandson of Bishop George Pretyman Tomline and father of Rt Hon Ernest George Pretyman who developed the port of Felixstowe.
 
This is a very lovely memorial to an industrious cleric, the text now becoming quite hard to decipher. It reads :-
 
"IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ FREDERIC PRETYMAN BD/ BORN OCT 21st 1819 DIED FEB 14th 1905/ DURING HIS 35 YEARS RESIDENCE/ IN GREAT CARLTON HE EVER STROVE TO ACT/ UP TO HIS HIGH IDEAL OF DUTY, AND WAS/ BELOVED AND REVERED BY ALL THOSE AMONGST/ WHOM HE LIVED AND WORKED./ THE LINCOLNSHIRE CONVALESCENT HOME/ AT MABLETHORPE, THE ‘WELCOME’ AT LOUTH/ AND THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN AT FELIXSTOWE/ REMAIN WITH OTHER GOOD WORKS AS LASTING/ MEMORIALS OF HIS WISE AND EARNEST EFFORTS/ FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS./ THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HIS ONLY SURVIVING SON ERNEST GEORGE PRETYMAN"
 
A full-length portrait of Canon Pretyman is in the collection at the Usher Gallery and can be viewed at:
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/reverend-canon-frederic-pretyman-18201905-81965
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, monument, Frederic Pretyman
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
On the north wall of the chancel are two monuments to Frederic Pretyman and his wife. This is the  more ornate monument for Frederic Pretyman’s wife.
 
‘To the beloved memory of Georgina Elizabeth Pretyman wife of the Revd Frederic Pretyman BD/ Rector of Great Carlton and/ daughter of Edward Knight Esq/ of Chawton House Hampshire./ To the same fatherly hand that dealt the blow/ her bereaved husband would ascribe the gift of that/ gentle happy holy disposition which so won the/ hearts of all who knew her, and made her such an/ inestimable treasure to himself./ But in the wreck of his own earthly joys he has this/ assured consolation, that for her to depart and to be/ with Christ is far better./ She died May 26th 1864 after giving birth/ to a son who lived only a few hours.’
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, monument, Georgina Elizabeth Pretyman
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Brass Plaque
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Brass Plaque
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Brass Plaque

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

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

DB 28 July 2018 

Great Hale, St John Baptist church, brass plaque, Frances Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

A monument to Robert Cawdron, died 1665.

June 2017

Great Hale, St John Baptist church, monument, Robert Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

"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 

Great Hale, St John Baptist church, monument, Robert Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

"On the south wall is a wall plaque with scrolls and acanthus leaves to the wife of Robert Cawdron, d.1733"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

"An ashlar wall plaque to Robert Cawdron, d.1714, Doric columns support a broken segmental pediment with paterae and flaming urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, Robert Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, North Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, North Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, North Aisle, Monument

Memorial to Rev. Ernest Julius Turckheim a former vicar. Erected by the parishioners 1908.

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, Turckheim
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument

Monument in the vestry at the east end of the south aisle. 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD JOHN DAWSON, A NATIVE OF THIS PLACE, ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM THOMPSON, AND PENELOPE DAWSON, DIED THE 31ST OF JANUARY 1853, IN THE 49TH YEAR OF HIS AGE"

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, EDWARD JOHN DAWSON
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument

Monument in the vestry at the east end of the south aisle.  

"IN A VAULT IN THE ADJOINING CHURCH YARD, REST THE REMAINS OF WILLIAM THOMPSON DAWSON. LATE OF LEVERTON IN THIS COUNTY. HE WAS A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH, AND WAS BORN ON THE 10TH OF JUNE 1775 AND DIED ON THE 15TH OF JUNE 1844. 

ALSO PENELOPE HIS WIFE BORN ON THE 8TH OF APRIL 1783. DIED ON THE 7TH OF APRIL 1821. 

THE CHILDREN OF THESE BELOVED PARENTS HAVE RAISED THIS TABLET TO THEIR MEMORY AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE. 

CATHERINE ANN THEIR DAUGHTER DIED IN INFANCY"

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, WILLIAM THOMPSON DAWSON
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Great Hale, Little Hale, St John Baptist, War memorial
Great Sturton, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Great Sturton, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Great Sturton, All Saints, Nave, Memorial

Memorial next to the chancel arch.

William Settle was Vicar of the parish for 52 years.

DB 6 February 2020

Great Sturton, All Saints, Church, memorial, William Settle
Greatford, St Thomas Becket, monument
Greatford, St Thomas Becket, monument
Greatford, St Thomas Becket, monument

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

Greatford, St Thomas Becket monument, Francis Willis
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass Tablet, Algernon Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass Tablet, Algernon Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass Tablet, Algernon Massingberd

"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

Gunby, St Peter church, Brass Plaque, Algernon Massingberd, Fort Tabatinga, Amazon, Shot
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, Sir Thomas & Johanna Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, Sir Thomas & Johanna Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, Sir Thomas & Johanna Massingberd

"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

Gunby, St Peter church, Brass, Sir Thomas Massingberd, Johanna
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, William De Lodyington
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, William De Lodyington
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, William De Lodyington

"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

Gunby, St Peter church, brass, William De Lodyington, Justiciary, Common Pleas
Hainton, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"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

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, John Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

"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

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, Sir William Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

"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

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, John Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

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

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, Sir George Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

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

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

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

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, George Heneage
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial

"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

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, memorial, Daniel de Ligne
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial

"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

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, Sir Richard Rickhill
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial

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

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, memorial, Daniel Gregory
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial Brass
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial Brass
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial Brass

"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

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, memorial brass, William Strood, Agnes Strood
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

"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   

Harmston, Church, All Saints, Memorial, George Thorold
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

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   

Harmston, Church, All Saints, Memorial, Samuel Thorold
Harpswell, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, Chancel, Monument

"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

Harpswell, Saint Chad, Church, John Whichcote, Elizabeth Tyrwhit, brass, monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument

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

Harpswell, Saint Chad, Church, monument, William de Harrington
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument

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

Harpswell, Saint Chad, Church, monument, John Gere
Harrington, St Mary, memorial
Harrington, St Mary, memorial
Harrington, St Mary, memorial

An alabaster monument to Francis Copledyck who died in 1599.

Mark Acton, 2017

Harrington, St Mary, memorial, Francis Copledyck
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Chaplin)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Chaplin)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Chaplin)

It was the appointment of Revd G A Chaplin to the living that prompted the 1840 rebuilding of the church which had previously been described as a "mean barn-like structure", clearly unsuitable for an incumbent who was part of the land-owning family.

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

Haugham All Saints church monument, Revd G A Chaplin
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Pearson)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Pearson)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Pearson)

William Hyde Pearson (1783-1849) was born at xxx. He qualified as a doctor and ran a successful London practice.
 
He acquired influential friends and patrons and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826.
 
In 1838, in the Queen Victoria's Coronation honours, Pearson was knighted for his services in the collection of medical and statistical information in Europe and the East.
 
He died in Welton, Northamptonshire, and was buried at St Martin's Church in that village.

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

Haugham All Saints church monument, William Hyde Pearson
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"Within these Rails lieth the Body of The Revd JOHN PARKINSON Formerly of Queens College Cambridge, And Rector of this Parish 40 Years, Who died January the 17th 1793, Aged 81.

Also FRANCES his Daughter Who died August the 29th 1779, Aged 24.

Also JAMES GREEN his Son, who died August the 9th 1786,Aged 22.

Also FRANCES the Wife of the above, Rev JOHN PARKINSON, Who died May 29th1807, Aged79 She was Daughter of the Revd JAMES GREEN and MARGARET his Wife, Who Also Lie Within these Rails." 

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN A VAULT OUT SIDE ARE INTERRED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF ELIZA THE BELOVED WIFE OF JOHN ILES OF BINBROOK HILL FORMERLY OF THIS PLACE  AND ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE I WILSON M D OF SPALDING WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE MDCCCXXXIX AGED 40 YEARS.

AS A DAUGHTER AS A WIFE AS A MOTHER SHE WAS AFFECTIONATE EXEMPLARY AND TENDER AS A FRIEND SHE WAS CONSTANT AND SINCERE IN HER ATTACHMENTS AS A CHRISTIAN SHE WALKED HUMBLY WITH HER GOD.

IN THE SAME VAULT LIES THE BODY OF JOHN ILES, WHO SURVIVING HIS WIFE 45 YEARS, BROUGHT UP THEIR NINE CHILDREN TO LIVE AND CALL HIM BLESSED, MUCH HONORED BY HIS NEIGHBOURS AND IN A GOOD OLD AGE, HE DIED AT ABBEY PARK, LOUTH, ON THE 12TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1884, AGED 91 YEARS" 

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT PARKINSON, LATE OF BARNOLDBY-LE-BECK IN THIS COUNTY SECOND SON OF THE REVD JOHN PARKINSON AND FRANCES HIS WIFE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 6TH 1822, IN THE 63RD YEAR OF HIS AGE

ALSO IN DUTIFUL REMEMBRANCE OF RACHEL ANN ILES, SISTER OF THE ABOVE NAMED ROBERT PARKINSON WHOSE REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN A VAULT WITHOUT THESE WALLS. SHE WAS CHARACTERIZED HY GREAT STRENGTH OF MIND A WARM AND AFFECTIONATE DISPOSITION, AND BY CONSISTENT UNAFFECTED PIETY SUCH SHALL BE HAD IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF AMELIA SURMAN, THE DEARLY BELOVED MOTHER OF REV. J. G. SURMAN, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPT. 22ND 1910, AGED 74 YEARS. INTERRED AT NUNHEAD CEMETERY. "HER CHILDREN ARISE UP, AND CALL HER BLESSED."

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN GILBERT SURMAN.M.A. SON OF THE ABOVE RECTOR OF HEALING 1888 TO 1917. DIED DEC.20 TH 1917. LORD I HAVE LOVED THE HABITATION OF THY HOUSE AND THE PLACE WHERE THY HONOUR DWELLETH."

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

The inscription appears to read :- 

"SM.

VIRI REVERENDI JOIIANNIS PARKINSON AM. S.T.P HUJUS ECCLESLAE PER ANNOS QTATUOR ET QUADRAGINTA RECTORIS ECCLESIA APUD IMMINGHAM PER ANNOS QUATUOR ET QUINQUAGINTA VICARII E. COLL: BALIOL APUD OXONIENSES OLIM ALUMNI. DIEM OBIIT SUPREMUM JANUARII  XI MDCCCXXXVII AETATIS SUAE LXXIX. HOC MARMOR PIETATIS CAUSA LOCANDUM CURAVIT FILIUS UNICUS GULIELMUS GRANTHAM PARKINSON"

Google Translate renders this as :-

"THE REVEREND JOHN PARKINSON AM. S.T.P OF THIS CHURCH FOR FOUR AND FORTY YEARS THE RECTOR OF THE CHURCH AT IMMINGHAM FOR FOUR AND FIFTY YEARS THE VICAR OF E. COLL: BALIOL AT OXONIANS FORMER STUDENT. He died on January 11, 1837, aged 79. THE ONLY SON OF WILLIAM GRANTHAM PARKINSON MANAGED TO LOCATE THIS MARBLE CAUSE OF PIETY"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF GILBERT FARR ESQ. WHO DIED 11TH JANY 1827. AGED 78 YEARS.

THIS MONUMENT WAS PLACED HERE BY HIS GRANDSON ALFRED A WALLIS AS A GRATEFULL TRIBUTE TO A KIND BENEFACTOR"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF GERALD BERKELEY 7th VISCOUNT PORTMAN WHO DIED 3rd SEPTEMBER 1948 IN HIS 74th YEAR. RESIDENT IN THIS PARISH FOR 45 YEARS. A LOVER AND GENEROUS BENEFACTOR OF THIS CHURCH"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church, GERALD BERKELEY 7th VISCOUNT PORTMAN
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF DOROTHY MARIE ISOLDE VISCOUNTESS PORTMAN WIFE OF THE 7TH VISCOUNT AND DAUGHTER OF SIR ROBERT SHEFFIELD, BARONET, NORMANBY PARK, LINCOLNSHIRE, WHO DIED 21ST MAY 1964 IN HER 87TH YEAR MUCH LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUT THOMAS CAPEL LOFT, OF H.M. 92ND HIGHLANDERS WHO DIED ON THE 7TH OF APRIL 1831, AGED 25 YEARS.

ALSO OF MARGARET BOSWELL LOFT, WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED ON THE 19TH OF APRIL 1860, AGED 50 YEARS.

ALSO OF LIEUT JOHN HENRY CAPEL LOFT, OF H. M. 64TH REGIMENT WHO WAS INVALIDED HOME FROM INDIA AND DIED IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL ON THE 12TH OF JANUARY 1850, AGED 20 YEARS."

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"... in grateful memory of Henry Godson by whose munificent bequest this Chancel was restored A.D. 1887, being the year of the Queens jubilee ..."

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, Henry Godson
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THE REVD. CHARLES DE LA COUR, TWENTY EIGHT YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED MARCH 15TH 1861 ... "

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, CHARLES DE LA COUR
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Richard de Potesgrave
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Richard de Potesgrave
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Richard de Potesgrave

"The tomb of Richard de Potesgrave, builder of the chancel. It is a broad moulded and pointed tomb recess with elaborate ogee cusping to the underside. The effigy is clad in full vestments, but the face has been despoiled. The edge of the slab supporting the effigy has a hollow chamfer containing ballflowers with brattishing"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360590?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage states "The founder's tomb of Richard de Potesgrave depicted in his priestly vestments. He died at the age of about 75 in 1349, possibly of the Black Death. In the case above his mutilated effigy is his communion chalice, found when the tomb was opened in 1800".

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, Tomb of Richard de Potesgrave
Heckington, St Andrew, Memorial Brasses
Heckington, St Andrew, Memorial Brasses
Heckington, St Andrew, Memorial Brasses

Memorial brasses for John Cadron d.1488 and William Cawdron sometime Bailiff of Heckington.

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, brass
Heckington, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

At the west end of the nave adjacent to the tower arch. 

"NEAR THIS PLACE ARE DEPOSITED THE EARTHLY REMAINS OF GEORGE (SON OF THE LATE GEORGE AND ELIZABETH,) STRUGGLES. HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY THE 24TH. 1844 AGED 51 YEARS" 

DB 25 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, George Struggles
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to Mrs Faith Ovens at the west end of the south aisle.

Above a modern kitchen area. 

DB 25 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, Faith Ovens
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

Monument to William Durance d.1845.

Located next to the war memorial hence the hanging banner. 

DB 8 July 2022

Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, William Durance
Heckington, St Andrew, South Transept, Monument
Heckington, St Andrew, South Transept, Monument
Heckington, St Andrew, South Transept, Monument

"C14 effigy to a civilian ... the figure appears as a praying bust in a quatrefoil surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360590?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage has "This 14th century effigy in the transept floor may represent Potesgrave's father".

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, effigy
Helpringham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Helpringham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Helpringham, St Andrew, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Helpringham, First World War
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument

"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

Hemingby, St Margaret, church, monument, Mrs. Baker, Orsett Hall, Consols
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument

"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 

Hemingby, St Margaret, church, monument, Reverend Joseph Carr
Hemswell, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial on the south wall.

"NEAR THIS PLACE LIETH THE MORTAL REMAINS OF JOHN WEST WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 21ST A.D. 1840, AGED 54 YEARS ... "

DB 6 March 2023

Hemswell, All Saints Church, image
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial

First World War memorial to the fallen of Hemswell.

Mark Acton 2014

Hemswell, war memorial, All Saints church
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial

"IN PROUD AND HONOURED MEMORY OF DOUGLAS JAMES POPPLE FLIGHT SERGEANT RAF WHO GAVE HIS LIFE ON ACTIVE SERVICE 24TH JULY 1942 AGED 22 YEARS.

THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.

ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW PARISHIONERS"

DB 6 March 2023

Hemswell, All Saints Church, image, war memorial
Heydour, St Michael, monument
Heydour, St Michael, monument
Heydour, St Michael, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2016

Heydour, St Michael church, monument, Scheemakers, Michael Newton
High Toynton, St John Baptist, Monuments
High Toynton, St John Baptist, Monuments
High Toynton, St John Baptist, Monuments

"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

High Toynton, Saint John Baptist, church, chancel, monuments, Thomas Ball
Holbeach, All Saints, Monument
Holbeach, All Saints, Monument
Holbeach, All Saints, Monument

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

Holbeach, All Saints church, monument, Humphrey Littlebury,
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD JOHN HALE, M.A. OXFORD. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH 42 YEARS ... "

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church, John Hale
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF GILBERT CALDECOTE ESQR COLONEL OF THE ROYAL NORTH LINCOLN MILITIA ... "

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church, GILBERT CALDECOTE
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY MARGARET, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE REVEREND JOHN HALE A.M. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DEPARTED THIS TRANSITORY LIFE, ON THE 22 FEBRUARY A.D. 1817, AGED 36 YEARS, NOT MORE AS A TESTIMONY OF HIS SINCERE AFFECTION AND REGRET THAN SOLEMNLY TO WARN THE THOUGHTLESS, THAT IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH, AND TO MAKE KNOWN TO POSTERITY A SINGULAR PATTERN OF BLAMELESS AND ENDEARING MANNERS AND OF EVERY DOMESTIC VIRTUE, HER AFFLICTED HUSBAND HATH CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED"

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"... REVD EDWARD FRANKS HODGSON M.A. 30 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH ... DIED ON THE 9TH MARCH 1882 ..."

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church
Honington, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Monument

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "in the pavement of the chancel is a huge grey slab, formerly commemorating a priest, part of whose effigy remains, but over this is now a brass inscribed to John Hussey esq. ob. 1587, and Elizabeth, his wife"

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, Nave, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Nave, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Nave, Monument

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN ALGERNON BASTARD WHO DIED NOV.20.1908 AGED 64. ERECTED BY HIS DEVOTED SISTER E.L.THOROLD"

DB 20 April 2023 

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

Monument to Sir William Hussey, d.1691.

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"Altar tomb resting on lion supporters with a garooned base bearing an incised effigy of William Smith, d.1550"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062413?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"IN Memory of SARAH HUSSEY WIFE OF ROBERT AP REECE, of Washingley, in the County of Huntingdon, Esqre. She was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Hussey of Huntingdon, Bart. descended from the 2nd Brother of the Right Honble. John, Lord Hussey, Baron of Sleeford, and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln. This Family did derive their Descent from the ancient Barons HOESE, or HUSE: Temp. HEN. III. and EDW. I. II. & III. She died the 23d of April, 1749."

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

Portrait bust of Sir Thomas Hussey bart., d.1698.

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, monument, Sir Thomas Hussey
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"On the north wall, monuments to Sir William Hussey, d.1691 and Dame Sarah Hussey d.1697 with broken pediment, scrolly cartouches and cherubs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062413?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, Hussey
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF HARRIET BROOKE COLES ... MARCH 2ND 1858 ... AGED 76 YEARS"

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, memorial, HARRIET BROOKE COLES
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monuments
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monuments
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monuments

"Monuments:- those in the north aisle are a notable collection; on the east wall is a marble plaque to Sir Thomas Hussey bart., d.1698 with a gadrooned base supporting a portrait bust and surmounted by a scrolly cartouche bearing a shield of arms. On the north wall, monuments to Sir William Hussey, d.1691 and Dame Sarah Hussey d.1697 with broken pediment, scrolly cartouches and cherubs. Also an altar tomb in the north east angle of the chapel to Thomas Hussey, son of Sir Thomas, d.1676 aged 15 years, black marble ledger slab above limestone tomb chest"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062413?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial

Wooden cabinet containing a crucifix and lists of names of those who served and those who died.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54220 

"MADE FROM TIMBER REMOVED FROM H.M.S. BRITTANIA, CADET TRAINING SHIP AT DARTMOUTH 1869-1905" 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, war memorial, H.M.S. BRITTANIA
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial Plaque
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial Plaque
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial Plaque

WW1 memorial plaque.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54219 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, war memorial plaque
Horbling, St&nbspAndrew, war memorial
Horbling, St Andrew, war memorial
Horbling, St Andrew, war memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Horbling, First World War
Horsington, All Saints, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Memorial

"A memorial brass erected by Mrs. Cowper Smith to her son Capt. Arthur Monro Cowper Smith, who died 28th Sept. 1898, of injuries received in a grass fire while shooting big game on the Pungwe river"

The Pungwe River is a 250 mile long river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique,

DB 8 April 2017

Horsington, All Saints Church, image, Capt. Arthur Monro Cowper Smith, Pungwe river
Horsington, All Saints, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Memorial

"Lieut. Evan Cowper Smith, son of the Rev. J. F. Smith, a former rector, who died of fever while serving in Afghanistan, July 26, 1880, aged 19"

DB 8 April 2017

Horsington, All Saints Church, image, Lieut. Evan Cowper Smith, Afghanistan
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monument
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monument
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monument

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

Hough on the Hill, All Saints Church, Monument, Edward Payne, Prince of Orange
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monuments
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monuments
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monuments

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

Hough on the Hill, All Saints Church, Monument, Arabella Ashton
Hougham, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial Rev. George Thorold
Hougham, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial Rev. George Thorold
Hougham, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial Rev. George Thorold

"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

Hougham, All Saints, Church, Rev. George Thorold, P. Rouw
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Howell, St Oswald, Charles Dymoke
Huttoft, St Margaret, Floor Slab
Huttoft, St Margaret, Floor Slab
Huttoft, St Margaret, Floor Slab

"Monuments. 2 incised floor slabs to Bartholomew Note, d.1473 and Maud Note"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, Maud Note
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM ROBINSON A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED AT ALFORD 16TH MARCH 1882, IN HIS 82ND YEAR.

THE DECEASED BY HIS WILL BEQUEATHED £400 TO THE VICAR AND CHURCHWARDENS OF HUTTOFT IN TRUST TO INVEST OF IN THEIR NAMES AND PAY THE INTEREST THEREOF ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN JANUARY ANNUALLY FOR EVER EQUALLY AMONGST THE FOUR MOST DESERVING LABOURING MEN RESIDING IN THIS PARISH IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS CREED. EACH NOT BEING OWNER OR OCCUPIER OF MORE THAN ONE ACRE OF LAND WHO SHALL HAVE BROUGHT UP THE LARGEST FAMILY WITHOUT PAROCHIAL RELIEF, LESS DUTY"

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRIVATE FRANK EDWARD ROBINSON 2ND LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. REPORTED MISSING AT LE TRANSLOY, FRANCE. 23RD OCTOBER 1916. LATER REPORTED KILLED ON THAT DATE AGED 33 YEARS "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS""

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, war memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 

Plaque on the screen of the War Memorial Chapel at the east end of the south aisle.

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, war memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 

Inscription on the screen of the War Memorial Chapel at the east end of the south aisle.

"In Memoriam R.I.P ... WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE GREAT WAR. 1914-1918"

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, war memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Monument

Unusual to find reference to a broken monument being replaced :- 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM RICHARDSON, ESQ ONE OF THE DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS OF THIS COUNTY WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 2ND 1830. ANNO ATATIS 78. HE WAS HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED THROUGH LIFE FOR HIS URBANITY OF MANNERS AND SINCERITY OF FRIENDSHIP, AND POSSESSED IN A VERY HIGH DEGREE THOSE VIRTUES,WHICH NOT ONLY ENDEARED HIM TO HIS RELATIONS AND FRIENDS, BUT ACQUIRED FOR HIM THE ESTEEM AND RESPECT OF ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY. ALSO OF CATHERINE HIS BELOVED WIFE WHO DIED MARCH OT 1836, AGED 81 YEARS. THEIR REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCH. THIS TESTIMONIAL OF GRATITUDE WAS ERECTED BY THEIR TRULY AFFECTIONATE GREAT NEPHEW. 

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THEIR GREAT GREAT NEPHEWS WILLIAM AND JOHN MAUNSELL RICHARDSON, TO REPLACE ONE WHICH FELL AND WAS BROKEN. 1907"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, WILLIAM RICHARDSON
Immingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument

"Ashlar wall tablet at west end of nave to John Teale of 1809 with oval medallion and rosettes in relief"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1310011?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial

"THESE MEN OF OUR PARISH GAVE THEIR LIVES 1939 - 1945 ...

GIVE PEACE IN OUR TIME O LORD"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial

"OUR MEN OUR FELLOW WORKERS OUR FRIENDS OUR HUSBANDS OUR SONS THEY DIED FOR US BEHOLD THEY ARE ALIVE ...

THE GERAT WAR 1914 - 1918"

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "the parish war memorial is an alabaster tablet erected near the pulpit, the names of the 28 men of the parish who were killed being inscribed on it"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Blackwhale
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Blackwhale
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Blackwhale

"The patrol vessel struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Fife Ness (56°19′N 0°45′W) with the loss of twelve of her crew"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_January_1918 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMS Blackwhale
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Doon, HMS Itchen ...
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Doon, HMS Itchen ...
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Doon, HMS Itchen ...

HMS Doon, HMS Itchen, HMS Bat, HMS Legion, HMS Fairy and HMS Dee

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMS Doon Itchen Bat Legion Fairy Dee
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Wallington
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Wallington
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Wallington

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD & IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BRAVE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING THE GREAT WAR AND WHOSE NAMES WERE ON THE BOOKS OF H.M.S. "WALLINGTON" AT IMMINGHAM NAVAL BASE THE MEMORIAL TABLETS IN THIS CHURCH ARE ERECTED BY THEIR BROTHER SAILORS"

"8 alabaster wall tablets in south aisle to naval casualties of 1914-1918 War"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1310011?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMS Wallington
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Asia
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Asia
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Asia

"H.M.T. "ASIA" MINED WHILE ENGAGED IN RESCUING SURVIVORS FROM TORPEDOED SHIP 12TH SEPTEMBER 1917 ...

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMT Asia
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Cotsmuir
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Cotsmuir
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Cotsmuir

"H.M.T. "COTSMUIR" SHIP & ALL HANDS LOST AT SEA EITHER BY ENEMY MINE OR SUBMARINE 2ND FEBRUARY 1917"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMT Cotsmuir
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Epworth
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Epworth
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Epworth

"H.M.T. "EPWORTH" LOST AT NIGHT BY COLLISION, 22ND MAY, 1917"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, H.M.T. EPWORTH
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Margate
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Margate
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Margate

"H.M.T. "MARGATE." SUNK IN ACTION AFTER A GALLANT FIGHT WITH AN ENEMY SUBMARINE 14TH APRIL, 1917"

"The naval trawler was shelled and sunk in the North Sea off Spurn Head, Yorkshire by SM UC-50 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of thirteen of her crew"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_April_1917 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, H.M.T. MARGATE
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMY Mekong, HMT Valpa & HMT Gaul
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMY Mekong, HMT Valpa & HMT Gaul
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMY Mekong, HMT Valpa & HMT Gaul

"H.M YACHT "MEKONG" WRECKED 12TH MAR. 1916 ...

H.M.T. "VALPA" MINED & SUNK WHILE ENGAGED IN SALVAGE WORK 19TH MARCH, 1916 ...

H.M.T. "GAUL" IN ACTION WITH ENEMY SUBMARINE 24TH APRIL, 1917" ..."

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HM Yacht Mekong, HMT Valpa, HMT Gaul
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, North Chapel, Monument
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, North Chapel, Monument
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, North Chapel, Monument

"In the north chapel a small brass to William Palmer d.1520, depicting a cripple with his crutch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204941?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 September 2022

Ingoldmells, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image, brass, William Palmer
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, South Chapel, Ledger Slab
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, South Chapel, Ledger Slab
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, South Chapel, Ledger Slab

C15 ledger slab.

Kelly's Directory 1913 comments "the church was once very rich in sepulchral slabs, but in 1746, when the interior was refloored, many were destroyed and others have since disappeared"

DB 11 September 2022

Ingoldmells, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, ledger slab
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew

First World War memorial to the fallen of the parish.

Mark Acton, 2018

Ingoldsby, First World War memorial, St Bartholomew
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew, War Memorial
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew, War Memorial
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2018

Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew
Irnham, Saint Andrew, Chancel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, Chancel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, Chancel, Brass

"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 

Irnham, Saint Andrew, Church, brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, North Chapel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, North Chapel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, North Chapel, Brass

"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  

Irnham, Saint Andrew, Church, brass, Sir Andrew Luttrell
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

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

July 2014

Keelby, St Bartholomew church, memorial, Lusitania, Annie Lancaster, Dorothy Lancaster
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ANNIE LANCASTER AND DOROTHY LANCASTER OF KEELBY MANOR, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES THROUGH THE SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA" 7TH MAY 1915"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48922 

"The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland"

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

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, RMS Lusitania
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF ELIZABETH HOLGATE OF KEELBY GRANGE WHO DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY 1874"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"THE KING'S OWN

In Loving Memory of Our dearly beloved Son & Brother. Pte. Arthur Frederick Jackson, Of the King's Own Royal Lancasters. Who died of Wounds in France August 14th 1917. Aged 20 Years"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WM FREAR HOLGATE, OF KEELBY GRANGE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPR 12, 1868, AGED 63"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"North wall of chancel has a wall plaque to John South, d.1591, a square marble plaque in a marble frame with circular pendent motif below and 2 obelisks flanking a cartouche of arms above, central panel flanked by vertical margins containing ribbons, incised skulls and hourglasses"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, John South
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Memorial

Memorial positioned near the pulpit. 

"In Memoriam JOHN SMITH OF KEELBY MANOR BORN AUG. 11TH, 1808, DIED JULY 13TH, 1873. AND MARY HIS WIFE WHO DIED JANUARY 3RD, 1885, AGED 73 YEARS"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial

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

Keelby, St Bartholomew church, memorial, Alice South
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial

Closer view of the portrait bust.

"In the north wall of the north aisle a recessed circular marble frame with guilloche decoration containing a portrait bust of Alice South, d,1605. She with hands clasped in prayer, with a ruff and cowled head"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, Memorial Alice South
Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, War Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, War Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, War Memorial

"LEST WE FORGET 1939 - 1945"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48923 

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, war memorial
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)

Sacred to the Memory of/ RICHARD PARNELL BOOTH/ late of Calcethorpe/ who departed this Life January 31st 1837,/ Aged 53(?) Years./ "Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour/ as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”/ Matthew 24 C. 44 V.

The monument is signed Geo Earle, Hull [Note – not John Earle as stated by Pevsner].

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, monument, Richard Parnell Booth
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)

This small slate ledger is in the tower.

It is in memory of Richard Parnell Booth who died 31st January1837 ? Aged 6 years.

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, Richard Parnell Booth
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Denison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Denison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Denison)

A wall tablet in alabaster to a father William Evelyn Denison and his only son, William Frank Evelyn Denison who died in France in 1918.

The father was an MP for Nottinghamshire and inherited the estate at Ossington Hall from his childless uncle, Viscount Ossington; see:

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

An excellent biography of the son can be found at: 

https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/2353  

Letters written by the son to his mother while in the military are in the Imperial War Museum.

For information about the Evelyn family see the following link to University of Nottingham archives:

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/denison/biographies/biographyofwilliamevelyndenison(1843-1916).aspx 

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, war memorial, William Frank Evelyn Denison, Ossington
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Harrison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Harrison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Harrison)

A 20th century monument unusually in alabaster to a soldier of the Lincolnshire Regiment, the sphinx depicted in the pediment.

In gold inscribed lettering it reads: SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ MY DARLING HUSBAND/ THOMAS WALTER HARRISON/ (LIEUT. ¼ LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT) WHO AFTER ACTIVE SERVICE IN FRANCE/ DURING THE GREAT WAR, LOST HIS LIFE/ THROUGH THE TORPEDOING OF R.M.S.”LEINSTER”,/ OCT 10TH 1918./ UNTIL THE DAY BREAK/ AND THE SHADOWS FLEE.

Thomas attended the Magnus School in Newark and an interesting piece about his life and death can be found at:

http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page/the_magnus_grammar_school?path=0p31p50p455p549p623p

under the date of the tragedy.

He is also detailed on Nottinghamshire’s Roll of Honour under:

https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/1843

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, monument, Thomas Walter Harrison
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (South)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (South)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (South)

Elizabeth South, wife of Sir Francis South, died in 1604.

Her alabaster monument depicts her seated beneath an arch, facing front, her left foot resting on a skull and an hourglass in her left hand which rests on a table beside her.

Above her to the right a clock face is included in the spandrel of the arch The two putti which once stood either side of her are missing.

They may be seen on:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/albums/72157625091615985/

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, monument, Elizabeth South, Francis South
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument

"On the north wall is a larger marble wall plaque to Charles Hall, d.1743 with an urn, putti and scrolls"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image, Charles Hall
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument

"In the north wall of the sanctuary is a square stone wall plaque to John Reeke, rector, d,1597"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument

"Also in the sanctuary but on the south wall is an oval marble wall plaque to Rev. Hugh Palmer d.1799"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments

A group of monuments on the north wall of the north aisle.

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image, monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments

Topmost memorial in the north aisle. 

"In the north aisle is a plaque to the Cole family, late C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022 

 

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image, cole
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments 
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments 
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments 

A closer view of the memorial to "Gervase Cole, Gent" died 1792 and his wife Mary who died 1822.

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument

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

Kingerby, St Peter church, monument, puppies
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
This knight in prayer also dates from the 14th century.
Kingerby, St Peter church, monument
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, Monument
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, Monument
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, Monument

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

DB 10 October 2018

Kirmond Le Mire, Saint Martin, church, monument, Edmund Turnor
Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument

"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

Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, Church
Knaith, St Mary, Monument
Knaith, St Mary, Monument
Knaith, St Mary, Monument

"Black and white marble monument on south wall with fluted pilasters, pinnacles, cusped pointed head and urn, of Henry Dalton, died 1821"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064050?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Knaith, Saint Mary Church, image, Henry Dalton
Laceby, St Margaret, Nave, Memorial
Laceby, St Margaret, Nave, Memorial
Laceby, St Margaret, Nave, Memorial

Memorial to John & Katherine Holmes died 1788 & 1798.

DB 8 February 2020

Laceby, Saint Margaret, Church, memorial, John Holmes
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Evre)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Evre)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Evre)

"NERE THIS PLACE LYETH THE BODY OF WILLIAM SALTMARSH OF STRUBBIE IN YE COUNTIE OF LINCOLNE ESQ WHOE IN YE 36 YEARE OF HIS AGE MARRIED BARBARA THE LADIE & RELICTE OF SR PETER EVRE OF WASHINGBROOKE ... " 

"Slate monument with pink, streaked marble surround to Barbara Evre of Washingbrooke, died 1657, with broken, segmental 1 pediment, cartouche painted gold, red and black"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063104?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Langton by Wragby, Saint Giles Church, monument, Barbara Evre
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Marwood)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Marwood)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Marwood)

" Here in hope of a Joyfull Resurrection lyeth ye bodie of ANN ye WIFE of HENRIE MARWOOD of Great Ayton in ye County of YORK ESQ ... " 

"Black and grey marble monument to Ann Marwood, died 1660, with upper cartouche with coat of arms, fruit and festoons"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063104?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Langton by Wragby, Saint Giles Church, monument, Ann Marwood
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Nave, War Memorial
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Nave, War Memorial
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Nave, War Memorial

Beneath the Langton window. 

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF LANGTON WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54002 

DB 10 September 2023

Langton by Wragby, Saint Giles Church, war memorial
Langworth, St Hugh, memorial plaque
Langworth, St Hugh, memorial plaque
Langworth, St Hugh, memorial plaque

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

Langworth, St Hugh church, interior decoration, Haliburton Francis Dallas Yorke, Thomas Dallas York
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument

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

Lea, St Helen church, monument, Francis Foljambe Anderson
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument

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

Lea, St Helen church, monument, Charles John Anderson, Frances Mary Anderson
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2014

Lea, St Helen church, monument, Sir Ralph Trehampton
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Brass
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Brass
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Brass

"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

Leadenham, Saint Swithin, Church, monument, brass, Elizabeth Beresford
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Monument

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

DB 16 September 2018

Leadenham, Saint Swithin, Church, Christopher Beresford, William Beresford
Leadenham, St Swithin, South Aisle, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, South Aisle, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, South Aisle, Monument

"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

Leadenham, Saint Swithin, Church, monument, Lady Jane Sherard
Leasingham, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial Slab Charles Medlycot
Leasingham, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial Slab Charles Medlycot
Leasingham, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial Slab Charles Medlycot

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

Leasingham, Saint Andrew, Church, Charles Medlycot
Legbourne, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Legbourne, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Legbourne, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

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

Legbourne, All Saints, Allenby, monument
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial

Memorial to William Branston Gent. d. 1778 and his widow Leah d. 1806.

DB 8 May 2022

Legsby, Saint Thomas church, memorial, William Branston
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial

William Adams was killed in a mining accident December 1903 at the Boulder Perseverance Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.

https://https://www.wavmm.com/listing/william/ 

DB 8 May 2022

Legsby, Saint Thomas church, memorial, William Adams, Boulder Perseverance Gold Mine
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, Mary Blomer
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

Marble tablet with pediment to Francis Hetherington d.1768. 

DB 21 June 2023

Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, Francis Hetherington
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

"A stone tablet eared and shouldered, with deaths head mask in circle on top, to Jane Chaworth d.1606"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253206?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 June 2023

Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, Jane Chaworth
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Tomb
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Tomb
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Tomb

In the chancel is a tomb to Bartholomew Armyne of Osgodby d.1605"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253206?section=official-list-entry 

The Church History states "From 1559 to 1638 the Patrons of the church were the Armyn family who lived in nearby Osgodby Manor (demolished in the 1960's), and whose magnificent monument, in the Chancel, is the most striking feature of the interior of the church"

DB 21 June 2023

Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, tomb, Bartholomew Armyne
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Bartholomew Burghersh, tomb, Battle of Crécy
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Bartholomew Burghersh, tomb, King's Warrener
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming Chantry

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Memorial Tomb of William Butler
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Memorial Tomb of William Butler
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Memorial Tomb of William Butler

"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

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, William John Butler
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Monument Christopher Wordsworth
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Monument Christopher Wordsworth
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Monument Christopher Wordsworth

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Christopher Wordsworth
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Russell Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Russell Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Russell Chantry

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Russell Chantry, Blaise Chapel
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh's Head Shrine
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh's Head Shrine
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh's Head Shrine

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh, Head Shrine
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb of Queen Eleanor
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb of Queen Eleanor
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb of Queen Eleanor

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb, Eleanor of Castile, Queen, Edward I
Lincoln Cathedral, Cloisters, The Slype, Memorial
Lincoln Cathedral, Cloisters, The Slype, Memorial
Lincoln Cathedral, Cloisters, The Slype, Memorial

Memorial plaque on the wall of the slype above a Penrose ledger stone.

"Elizabeth Penrose (3 August 1780 - 24 January 1837), known by her pseudonym Mrs Markham, was an English writer ...

The best known of her books was A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the End of the Reign of George III (1823), which went through numerous editions. In 1828, she published a History of France. Both these works enjoyed a wide popularity in America as well as in England"

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

DB 23 August 2022

Lincoln Cathedral, Slype, Elizabeth Penrose, Mrs Markham
Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass
Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass
Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass, Bishop Smith, Brasenose College Oxford, Smyth
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Burial Slab
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Burial Slab
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Burial Slab

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Bishop Alexander, Tomb Slab, Tree of Jesse
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Memorial Tomb Bishop John Kaye
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Memorial Tomb Bishop John Kaye
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Memorial Tomb Bishop John Kaye

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop John Kaye, Richard Westmacott, Carra marble
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Monument
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Monument
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Monument

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

DB 21 December 2019

Lincoln Cathedral, Elizabeth Hatton, William Gylby
Lincoln Cathedral, South Choir Aisle, Harry Crookshank
Lincoln Cathedral, South Choir Aisle, Harry Crookshank
Lincoln Cathedral, South Choir Aisle, Harry Crookshank

"Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, CH, PC (27 May 1893 - 17 October 1961), was a British Conservative politician.

He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1955 ...

In the First World War, he joined the Hampshire Regiment and served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards. On one occasion he was buried alive by an explosion for twenty minutes, and on another in 1916 he was castrated by shrapnel.

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

DB 7 August 2020

Lincoln Cathedral, Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Dean Fuller
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Dean Fuller
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Dean Fuller

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Samuel Fuller,Antonio Verrio
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Edward King
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Edward King
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Edward King

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Edward King, Statue, William Blake Richmond, Eric Gill
Lincoln Cathedral, Southeast Transept, Robert 
Grosseteste
Lincoln Cathedral, Southeast Transept, Robert  Grosseteste
Lincoln Cathedral, Southeast Transept, Robert  Grosseteste

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop Robert Grosseteste, W.H.Randoll Blacking, Chancellor Oxford University
Lincoln Cathedral, St Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford
Lincoln Cathedral, St Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford
Lincoln Cathedral, St Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford

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

Lincoln Cathedral, Saint Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford
Lincoln, All Saints, Bracebridge, Memorial Charles Ellison
Lincoln, All Saints, Bracebridge, Memorial Charles Ellison
Lincoln, All Saints, Bracebridge, Memorial Charles Ellison

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

Lincoln, Bracebridge, All Saints, Church
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Anne Dawson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Anne Dawson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Anne Dawson

"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

Lincoln, Saint Benedict, Church, Anne Dawson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Brass John & Marie Becke
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Brass John & Marie Becke
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Brass John & Marie Becke

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

Lincoln, Saint Benedict, Church, Brass John & Marie Becke, Mayor
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial William Nicholson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial William Nicholson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial William Nicholson

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

Lincoln, Saint Benedict, Church, William Adams Nicholson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorials Tyrwhht Smith & Family
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorials Tyrwhht Smith & Family
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorials Tyrwhht Smith & Family

Memorials to Tyrwhht Smith d. 1826 and family.

"one of the Aldermen of this CITY" 

DB 27 September 2018

Lincoln, Saint Benedict, Church, Tyrwhht Smith
Lincoln, St Martin
Lincoln, St Martin
Lincoln, St Martin

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 

Lincoln, Saint Martin, Church, George Davies Kent
Lincoln, St Nicholas, Lincolnshire Regiment Memorial
Lincoln, St Nicholas, Lincolnshire Regiment Memorial
Lincoln, St Nicholas, Lincolnshire Regiment Memorial

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

Lincoln, Saint Nicholas, Church, Lincolnshire Regiment
Linwood, St Cornelius, John & Alice Lynwode Brass
Linwood, St Cornelius, John & Alice Lynwode Brass
Linwood, St Cornelius, John & Alice Lynwode Brass

"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

Linwood, Church, Saint Cornelius, John Lynwode, William Lynwode, Lyndwood, Provinciale
Linwood, St Cornelius, John Lyndewode Brass
Linwood, St Cornelius, John Lyndewode Brass
Linwood, St Cornelius, John Lyndewode Brass

"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

Linwood, Church, Saint Cornelius, John Lyndewode, Wool
Little Bytham, St Medard, memorial
Little Bytham, St Medard, memorial
Little Bytham, St Medard, memorial

First World War memorial to Sergeant John Holmes.

Mark Acton, 2017

Little Bytham, St Medard, memorial, John Holmes
Little Steeping, St Andrew, Chancel, Effigy
Little Steeping, St Andrew, Chancel, Effigy
Little Steeping, St Andrew, Chancel, Effigy

"A very fine recumbant effigy of Thomas de Redyng, rector of Little Steeping 1318-1353"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1267204?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 September 2022

Little Steeping, Saint Andrew church image, effigy, Thomas de Redyng
Little Steeping, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Little Steeping, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Little Steeping, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN THANKFUL MEMORY OF EDWARD STEERE DD DCL CURATE IN CHARGE OF SKEGNESS AD 1858 - 1859 RETOR OF THIS PARISH AD 1859 - 1872 WHO IN 1862 WENT OUT WITH BISHOP TOZER TO CENTRAL AFRICA. SUCCEEDED HIM AS BISHOP OF ZANZIBAR IN 1874 AND DYING THERE AUGUST 27TH 1882 WAS BURIED BEHIND THE ALTAR OF HIS OWN CATHEDRAL : A BRAVE MAN : A DEVOUT SCHOLAR : A TRUE SHEPHERD OF SOULS : A SEER OF KEEN VISION : THE REPARATION OF THIS CHURCH BEGUN WITH HIS OWN HANDS WAS COMPLETED AD MDCCCCXIII. SOLI DEO GLORIA"

DB 4 September 2022

Little Steeping, Saint Andrew church image, memorial, Edward Steere, Bishop of Zanzibar
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, North Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, North Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, North Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to William Harvey d. 1856 and his wife Hannah d. 1839.

Located above the north door 

DB 25 May 2023

Londonthorpe, Saint John Baptist, Church, image
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, North Aisle, Monument
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, North Aisle, Monument
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, North Aisle, Monument

"C14 ogee arch recessed into north aisle contains stone effigy of recumbent knight"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253207?section=official-list-entry 

DB 25 May 2023

Londonthorpe, Saint John Baptist, Church, image
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to William Walker d.1809 and his wife Susanna d.1841.

DB 25 May 2023

Londonthorpe, Saint John Baptist, Church, image
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to William Gregory Walker born in Londonthorpe 1791 and died in Sleaford 1841.

DB 25 May 2023

Londonthorpe, Saint John Baptist, Church, image, William Gregory Walker
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to Jane, widow of William Gregory Walker, who died at Brighton 1864.

DB 25 May 2023

Londonthorpe, Saint John Baptist, Church, image
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial
Londonthorpe, St John Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial

First & Second World War memorial plaques.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/63745 

DB 25 May 2023

Londonthorpe, Saint John Baptist, Church, image, war memorial
Ludborough, St Mary, South Aisle, Memorial
Ludborough, St Mary, South Aisle, Memorial
Ludborough, St Mary, South Aisle, Memorial

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

Ludborough, Saint Mary, church, Gloucestershire Regiment
Lutton, St Nicholas, Memorial
Lutton, St Nicholas, Memorial
Lutton, St Nicholas, Memorial

A fine wall mounted monument in baroque style with simple pediment.

The inscription reads:

Near this place [is] interr'd ye body of GILB. REDHEAD Gent who dep'd this Life the 17 Apr. 1770 aged 56 years.

July 2019

Lutton, St Nicholas, Gilbert Redhead, memorial
Maltby le Marsh, All Saints, monument
Maltby le Marsh, All Saints, monument
Maltby le Marsh, All Saints, monument

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

Maltby le Marsh, All Saints, monument
Manby, St Mary, Memorial (Hall)
Manby, St Mary, Memorial (Hall)
Manby, St Mary, Memorial (Hall)

This tablet on the south wall of the chancel commemorates the incumbent under whom the 1887 restoration took place.

Jean Howard, December 2023

Manby, Saint Mary Church, Frederick Dickinson Hall
Manby, St Mary, Memorial (McConnell)
Manby, St Mary, Memorial (McConnell)
Manby, St Mary, Memorial (McConnell)

The hymn board carries the crest of No 25 (Flying Training) Group, RAF, who were for 10 years, from March 1951 to January 1961 tasked with administering the Flying Refresher Schools and Advanced Flying Schools at Manby.

Beside it is the wall tablet commemorating Wing Commander Roger Hugh McConnell. See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/62098

Jean Howard, December 2023

Manby, Saint Mary Church, memorial, hymn board, Roger Hugh McConnell
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, Chancel, Goodenough Memorial
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, Chancel, Goodenough Memorial
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, Chancel, Goodenough Memorial

Memorial on the south wall of the chancel. 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM GOODENOUGH, ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE, AND MANY YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH. HE DIED ON THE 13TH OF DECEMBER 1854 IN HIS 82ND YEAR. 

ALSO TO MARY ANNE, HIS WIFE, THE DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL GOODENOUGH LORD BISHOP OF CARLISLE. SHE DIED ON THE 3RD OF JANUARY 1847, IN HER 75TH YEAR .

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THEIR ONLY SURVIVING CHILD AS A MARK OF HER AFFECTION" 

DB 12 September 2021

Mareham le Fen, St Helen Church, Goodenough
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, North Aisle, James Roberts
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, North Aisle, James Roberts
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, North Aisle, James Roberts

"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.

12 September 2021

Mareham le Fen, St Helen, memorial
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, North Aisle, James Roberts
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, North Aisle, James Roberts
Mareham le Fen, St Helen, North Aisle, James Roberts

"In the north aisle a sandstone tombstone with cambered head to James Roberts, d.1826, who sailed in the Endeavour with Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215809 

DB 12 September 2021

Mareham le Fen, St Helen Church, James Roberts
Mareham on the Hill, All Saints, Plaque
Mareham on the Hill, All Saints, Plaque
Mareham on the Hill, All Saints, Plaque

Next to the harmonium this plaque pays tribute to an organist with a quotation from a well-known hymn.

Jean Howard 13 August 2021

Mareham on the Hill, All Saints church, image
Mareham on the Hill, All Saints, Plaques
Mareham on the Hill, All Saints, Plaques
Mareham on the Hill, All Saints, Plaques

Three friends of the church are commemorated by these simple plaques.

Jean Howard 13 August 2021

Mareham on the Hill, All Saints church, image
Market Deeping, St Guthlac, North Aisle, Monument
Market Deeping, St Guthlac, North Aisle, Monument
Market Deeping, St Guthlac, North Aisle, Monument

"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

Market Deeping, Saint Guthlac, Church, Monument, William Goodale
Market Deeping, St Guthlac, South Aisle, Benefaction
Market Deeping, St Guthlac, South Aisle, Benefaction
Market Deeping, St Guthlac, South Aisle, Benefaction

"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

Market Deeping, Saint Guthlac, Church, JOHN PERKINS
Marshchapel, St Mary, Ayscough Floyer
Marshchapel, St Mary, Ayscough Floyer
Marshchapel, St Mary, Ayscough Floyer

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

Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church, Ayscough Floyer
Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel, monument
Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel, monument
Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel, monument

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

Marshchapel, St Mary church, monument, Harpham, Westled, Broxholme
Marston, St Mary, monument
Marston, St Mary, monument
Marston, St Mary, monument

Alabaster monument to Sir Anthony Thorold, d 1594.

March 2016

Marston, St Mary, monument, Sir Anthony Thorold
Marston, St Mary, monument
Marston, St Mary, monument
Marston, St Mary, monument

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

March 2016

Marston, St Mary, monument, Sir Anthony Thorold
Marston, St Mary, monument
Marston, St Mary, monument
Marston, St Mary, monument

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

March 2016

Marston, St Mary, monument, William Thorold, Purbeck marble
Marston, St Mary, Monument
Marston, St Mary, Monument
Marston, St Mary, Monument

Tablet by Edmund Ware 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 

Marston, Saint Mary, Church, Monument, Ernest Hayford Thorold
Marston, St Mary, Monument
Marston, St Mary, Monument
Marston, St Mary, Monument

The inscription seems to read "To the memory of Anne Lady Hodgson ... one of the daughters of Anthony Thorold of Cranwell ... died the 11th of Aug 1739(?)"

Church Guide Notes state "in the south aisle the distinguished monument by Edward Stanton and Christopher Horsnaile to Anne, granddaughter of Sir William Thorold, 1st Baronet, and wife of Sir Thomas Hodgson of Bramwith, Yorkshire (d. 1716)"

"Alabaster monument on south wall to Anne, Lady Hodgson (nee Thorold), died 1719, with ornate crown and apron, flanking corinthianesque pilasters and draperies"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146946 

DB 23 July 2018

Marston, Saint Mary, Church, monument, Edward Stanton, Christopher Horsnaile, Thorold, Hodgson
Marston, St Mary, South Aisle, Dame Margaret Thorold
Marston, St Mary, South Aisle, Dame Margaret Thorold
Marston, St Mary, South Aisle, Dame Margaret Thorold

Erected to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of Marston School 1966.

"TO THE MEMORY OF DAME MARGARET THOROLD FOUNDRESS OF MARSTON SCHOOL.

BENEFACTRESS OF THIS PARISH DAUGHTER OF JOHN WATERER OF CARSHALTON SURREY SHE MARRIED FIRST THE HONBLE FRANCIS COVENTRY, SECONDLY SIR JOHN THOROLD 4TH BART.

SHE DIED 23 JANUARY 1732 AND WAS BURIED WITH HER FIRST HUSBAND IN MORTLAKE CHURCH SURREY"

Church Guide Notes state "Near the font the recent memorial by Francis Johnson to Dame Margaret"

DB 23 July 2018

Marston, Saint Mary, Church, image, DAME MARGARET THOROLD
Martin by Horncastle, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Martin by Horncastle, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Martin by Horncastle, St Michael, Chancel, Monument

"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

Martin, Saint Michael, Church, John Oldham
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, Porch, Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, Porch, Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, Porch, Memorial

Memorial plaque inside the porch. 

"THE GATES TO THIS PORCH ARE GIVEN IN REVERENCE TO GOD AND IN MEMORY OF JOHN HENRY ELLIS DEAN M.C.& BAR CAPTAIN I3 BAT. CHESHIRE REG WHO WAS KILLED BETWEEN RHEIMS AND SOISSONS 27TH MAY 1918 AGED 23 YEARS"

DB 21 October 2023

Metheringham, Saint Wilfrid Church, image, JOHN HENRY ELLIS DEAN, war memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial Plaques
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial Plaques
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial Plaques

Memorial plaques set in a recess. Apparently theses plaques were found in the church coal bunker and put here about 1908.

DB 21 October 2023

Metheringham, Saint Wilfrid Church, image
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Monument
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Monument
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Monument

"To the Memory of Mrs LUCY SKIPWITH Daughter of Sir THOMAS SKIPWITH of METHERINCHAM, Bart. Who departed this Life Jany 23d 1763, Aged 73.

In her Behaviour she was Easy, Affable, Instructive and Engaging The goodness of her Heart which appear'd in her Sentiments Never fail'd to gain, the Esteem and Affection of all ; When the Ear heard her, then it bless'd her, and when the Eye saw her, it gave witness unto her. In those Relations in Life where she was most intimately connected as a Daughter and a Sister she was what every one should wish to be. In her Friendships: what all Mankind ought to be, In her Charities to the Virtuous distress'd unbounded: In her Piety she was Uniform, Sincere, Steady, and unaffected. Thus Liv'd, and thus died, the much Lamented (& rarely to be equall'd ) Mrs LUCY SKIPWITH - may her Virtues be recorded. And her Example followed throughout all Generations to the latest Posterity.

This Monument was erected by Mrs ISABELLA PITT As a Testimony of her Gratitude and Affection"

DB 21 October 2023

Metheringham, Saint Wilfrid Church, image
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Monument
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Monument
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Monument

"To the memory Of Sir Thomas Skipwith late of this Parish Bart. and Serjeant at Law: and of Elizabeth his first Wife, Daughter of Ralph Lathom of Upminster In the County of Essex Esquire: and also of Sir Thomas Skipwith Bart. their Son and Margaret his Wife, Daughter Of George Bridges late Lord Chandois They all lye buried in St. Mary's Chapell in the Parish Church of Upminster, except Margaret who lyes buried in Henry The VII'ths Chapell Westminster Abby Jan. 8th. 1742. The first Sir Thomas June 2d. 1694. Elizabeth his Wife Sept. 5th. 1671. Sir Thomas their Son June 15th. 1710.

This Monument was erected by Sir George Bridges Skipwith Baronet, Lord of this Manor, intending it for them and himself: And desires to be interred in the Vault underneath which he has prepared for that Purpose

Here Lyeth the Body of the said Sir George Bridges Skipwith, Who dyed the Third day of June 1756, In the 70 Year of his Age"

DB 21 October 2023

Metheringham, Saint Wilfrid Church, image
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial

Memorials to those killed in the First World War. Located in the north aisle.

DB 21 October 2023

Metheringham, Saint Wilfrid Church, image, war memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD & IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF METHERINGHAM WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918"

DB 21 October 2023

Metheringham, Saint Wilfrid Church, image, war memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial
Metheringham, St Wilfrid, War Memorial

"William Pearson Green Killed in Action - 28th June 1916 Bellringer at St Wilfrid's Metheringham"

"George Henry Cooke Killed in Action - 20th December 1917 Bellringer at St Wilfrid's Metheringham"

DB 21 October 2023

Metheringham, Saint Wilfrid Church, image, war memorial
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Effigy
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Effigy
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Effigy

An early fourteenth century effigy of a priest.

December 2017

Middle Rasen, St Peter church, effigy
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Monument
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Monument
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Monument

"In the chancel north wall is a marble plaque in the form of an obelisk dated 1747, with pediment and rococco cartouche"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166238?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Middle Rasen, Saint Peter Church, image, monument
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Monument
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Monument
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Chancel, Monument

"NEAR TO THIS PLACE REST THE REMAINS OF THE REVEREND THOMAS WILSON. HE DIED THE 21ST MARCH 1804, IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

HAVING BEEN VICAR OF THE TWO PARISHES, MIDDLE RASEN DRAX, AND TUPHOLM, THIRTY TWO YEARS" 

DB 8 May 2022

Middle Rasen, Saint Peter Church, image
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Memorial
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Memorial
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Memorial

A mememorial to William Bentley died 1849. 

"IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BENTLEY A NATIVE OF THIS PLACE, AND FOR MANY YEARS AN EMINENT LANDSURVEYOR WHO HAVING AQUIRED A CONSIDERABLE PROPERTY, BEQUEATHED THE GREATER PART OF IT TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS ... "

DB 8 May 2022

Middle Rasen, Saint Peter Church, image, William Bentley
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Memorial
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Memorial
Middle Rasen, St Peter, Memorial

"IN PROUD AND UNFORGETTING MEMORY OF LIEUT-COL. GEORGE ARTHUR TYRON M.C. 4TH KING'S RIFLE CORPS. WHO AFTER FOUR YEARS ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY NOVEMBER 7TH 1918, FOUR DAYS BEFORE FIGHTING CEASED. HIS AGE WAS 32 YEARS"

DB 8 May 2022

Middle Rasen, Saint Peter Church, image, Tyron
Morton, St Paul, North Aisle, Boer War Memorial
Morton, St Paul, North Aisle, Boer War Memorial
Morton, St Paul, North Aisle, Boer War Memorial

"To the Glory of God and in memory of CYRIL GERMAN DANKS Lieutenant 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment who was wounded at the Battle of Elandslaagte on the 21st October 1899 whilst gallantly leading on his men and died from the effects of his wound at Aldershot 31st May 1900.

Deeply regretted by all ranks. This tablet is erected in affectionate remembrance by his brother Officers"

DB 15 May 2022

Morton by Gainsborough, Saint Paul Church, image
Morton, St Paul, South Aisle, Memorial
Morton, St Paul, South Aisle, Memorial
Morton, St Paul, South Aisle, Memorial

Guild of servers memorial with dates between 1888 and 1924.

DB 15 May 2022

Morton by Gainsborough, Saint Paul Church, image, servers
New Bolingbroke, St Peter, War Memorial
New Bolingbroke, St Peter, War Memorial
New Bolingbroke, St Peter, War Memorial

New Bolingbroke St Peter – War Memorial plaque

Those from New Bolingbroke who lost their lives in the First World War are commemorated on the War Memorial at Carrington. This plaque therefore relates only to the Second War. Air Gunner Twelvetrees is buried in New Bolingbroke churchyard. See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20423 and: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/264176/ 

Jean Howard 22 January 2024

New Bolingbroke, Saint Peter Church, image, war memorial
Nocton, All Saints, Mortuary Chapel, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, Mortuary Chapel, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, Mortuary Chapel, Monument

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

Nocton, All Saints, Church, monument, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, Matthew Noble
Nocton, All Saints, Mortuary Chapel, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, Mortuary Chapel, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, Mortuary Chapel, Monument

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

Nocton, All Saints, Church, monument
Nocton, All Saints, North Porch, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, North Porch, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, North Porch, Monument
In the north porch, under the tower, is the memorial to Sir William Ellys of Nocton Hall, who was solicitor-general to Oliver Cromwell.
 
https://nocton-church.blogspot.com/p/test-2.html 
 
Monument transferred from the former St Peter's church.
 
DB 7 December 2019
Nocton, All Saints, Church, monument, Sir William Ellys, solicitor-general
Nocton, All Saints, South Aisle, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, South Aisle, Monument
Nocton, All Saints, South Aisle, Monument

"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

Nocton, All Saints, Church, monument, Dean Henry Hobart
Normanby le Wold, St Peter, Ledger
Normanby le Wold, St Peter, Ledger
Normanby le Wold, St Peter, Ledger

This type of ledger, which shows the bust of the person commemorated, is variously called a sunk-relief, ‘head and shoulders’ or an ‘under the blanket’  monument.

It dates from around 1320 and is of a woman wearing a veiled headdress. At the lower edge her ‘shoes’ emerge.

Jean Howard, 2023

Normanby le Wold, Saint Peter Church, ledger
Normanton, St Nicholas, Memorial
Normanton, St Nicholas, Memorial
Normanton, St Nicholas, Memorial

"THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING OF THIS CHURCH WAS INSTALLED BY THOMAS CHAMBERS IN MEMORY OF HIS SON SUB-LIEUT. JOHN M. CHAMBERS, R.N.R. KILLED IN ACTION 25TH NOV. 1940"

DB 11 March 2024

Normanton, Saint Nicholas Church, SUB-LIEUT. JOHN M. CHAMBERS
Normanton, St Nicholas, Nave, War Memorials
Normanton, St Nicholas, Nave, War Memorials
Normanton, St Nicholas, Nave, War Memorials

Memorials commemorating those who died in World War 1 & 2 :-

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF  NORMANTON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918"

FRANK CARTWRIGHT

WALTER CROWLEY

JOSEPH S. GALE

CHARLES HEDWORTH

JOHN T. HEMPSALL

CHARLES E. SPENDLOW

RICHARD WOODS"

------------------------ 

"JOHN M. CHAMBERS.

JOHN D. ANDREW.

DAVID BRISTER.

EDWARD H. DENNISON.

1939~1945"

DB 11 March 2024

Normanton, Saint Nicholas, Church, War Memorial
North Carlton, St Luke, Chancel, Monument
North Carlton, St Luke, Chancel, Monument
North Carlton, St Luke, Chancel, Monument

On the chancel floor an undated brass plaque to Sir Robert Monson.

DB 4 August 2022

North Carlton, Saint Luke Church, Image, brass, Sir Robert Monson
North Carlton, St Luke, Chancel, Monument
North Carlton, St Luke, Chancel, Monument
North Carlton, St Luke, Chancel, Monument

On the chancel floor a brass plaque to Edward Monson d.1714. The 11th son of Sir John Monson.

DB 4 August 2022

North Carlton, Saint Luke Church, Image
North Carlton, St Luke, Nave, Monument
North Carlton, St Luke, Nave, Monument
North Carlton, St Luke, Nave, Monument

"On the south wall of the nave a white marble wall plaque in the Greek Taste to Caleb Slater d,1805"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064070?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 August 2022

North Carlton, Saint Luke Church, Image, monument, Caleb Slater
North Cockerington, St Mary, South Aisle
North Cockerington, St Mary, South Aisle
North Cockerington, St Mary, South Aisle

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

North Cockerington, church, Saint Mary
North Kelsey, All Hallows, coffin lid
North Kelsey, All Hallows, coffin lid
North Kelsey, All Hallows, coffin lid

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

May 2016

North Kelsey, St Nicholas, coffin lid
Norton Disney, St Peter, Disney Chantry, Brass
Norton Disney, St Peter, Disney Chantry, Brass
Norton Disney, St Peter, Disney Chantry, Brass

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

Norton Disney, St Peter, Church, Brass, Disney Chantry, West Lavington
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument

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, monument, Sir William Disney, Joan Disney
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2016


Norton Disney, St Peter church, monument, Hautacia, william Disney, Lord of Norton
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument

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

Mark Acton, 2016


Norton Disney, monument, St Peter, Viscount St Vincent, Abu Klea
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument

First World War memorial.

Mark Acton, 2016

Norton Disney, St Peter, Monument, Bertie Pickering, Harold Stones
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument
Norton Disney, St Peter, monument

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

October 2016

Norton Disney, St Peter, monument, Disney, d'Isigny
Owston Ferry, St Martin, Chancel, Floorslab
Owston Ferry, St Martin, Chancel, Floorslab
Owston Ferry, St Martin, Chancel, Floorslab

Inscribed slab to John Pindar of 1776.

DB 2 September 2018

Owston Ferry, Saint Martin Church, John Pindar, Floorslab
Oxcombe, All Saints, Memorial (Grant)
Oxcombe, All Saints, Memorial (Grant)
Oxcombe, All Saints, Memorial (Grant)

John Grant is one of many members of his family commemorated here.
 
Grant died in 1799 and his tablet is unusual in having part of the inscription chipped out.
 
He wished it to record that he had acquired £100,000 from farming, a feat that had "never been done before". Later generations of his family removed this wording, perhaps considering it immodest. 

Jean Howard, 4 April 2021

Oxcombe, All Saints, John Grant Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF JAMES FLANNER, M.A. Rector of Partney, who died March 6th 1814, AGED 58 YEARS"

DB 4 September 2022

Partney, Saint Nicholas church image, JAMES FLANNER
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial

"Near this place lies the Body of HANNAH, Wife of the Revd. WILLIAM TUTING formerly Rector of this Parish. She died in the 27th Year of her Age on the 20th of February in the Year of our Lord 1790"

DB 4 September 2022

Partney, Saint Nicholas church image
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THE REVD. FIELD FLOWERS (LATE OF BOSTON) RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED 4TH JULY 1818 IN THE FORTYSIXTH YEAR OF HIS AGE"

DB 4 September 2022

Partney, Saint Nicholas church image
Partney, St Nicholas, memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, memorial

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

Partney, St Nicholas, Matthew Flinders memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Chapel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Chapel, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Chapel, Memorial
Partney, Saint Nicholas church image, Jane Rugeley memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Boer War Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Boer War Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Boer War Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER RALPH MADDISON 1ST BATT. DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT, 2ND SON OF HENRY AND CLARA MADDISON OF PARTNEY BORN 10TH SEPT, 1872. HE SERVED IN THE TIRAH CAMPAIGN IN INDIA AND WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT VLAKFONTEIN IN STH. AFRICA 29TH MAY 1901. DISPLAYING SUCH BRAVERY AS CAUSED HIM TO BE MENTIONED IN LORD KITCHENER'S DESPATCH FOR "GREAT GALLANTRY AND GOOD EXAMPLE". "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH""

DB 4 September 2022

Partney, Saint Nicholas church image, Boer War Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "the stained east window of the south aisle was given by Frederick Flowers esq. as a memorial to his parents and sister, and underneath is a brass to Frederick Flowers esq. d. 1886" 

"IN EVER LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF FREDERICK FLOWERS THIRD SON OF THE ABOVE FIELD AND MARY FLOWERS. HE WAS RECORDER OF STAMFORD AND FOR 24 YEARS A MAGISTRATE OF THE BOW STREET POLICE COURT. DIED AT HORNSEY 26TH JANUARY 1886"

DB 4 September 2022

Partney, Saint Nicholas church image
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial 
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial 
Partney, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial 

"IN MEMORY OF MAJOR HENRY GEORGE MADDISON BORN 23 AUG.1868, DIED 18 JULY 1952 A COLONIST IN NEW ZEALAND, HE FOUGHT IN THE BOER WAR AS A VOLUNTEER, AND IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR WITH THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR HE STOOD DOWN WITH THE HOME GUARD IN HIS 78TH YEAR. SQUIRE OF PARTNEY. CHURCH WARDEN FOR 33 YEARS. HE WAS BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM"

DB 4 September 2022

Partney, Saint Nicholas church image, MAJOR HENRY GEORGE MADDISON
Partney, St Nicholas, Tower Arch, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Tower Arch, Memorial
Partney, St Nicholas, Tower Arch, Memorial

Located at the west end of the nave adjacent to the tower arch. 

"IN MEMORY OF JOHN WEST WALKER LIEUT 5TH BATTN LINCOLNSHIRE REGT BORN AT PARTNEY RECTORY 20TH MAY 1897. KILLED IN ACTION 11TH APRIL 1917 NEAR HARGICOURT, FRANCE.

HE WAS THE ELDEST SON OF GILBERT GEORGE WALKER RECTOR OF THIS PARISH 1894-1905 AND MARGARET LITTLEJOHN HIS WIFE AND GRANDSON OF THE LATE JOHN WEST WALKER M.B. J.P OF SPILSBY"

DB 4 September 2022

Partney, Saint Nicholas church image
Pickworth, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Pickworth, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Pickworth, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial to Rev. William Blandy who died 1865.

DB 2 March 2020

Pickworth, Saint Andrew, church, memorial, William Blandy
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument

"IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH WELFITT, SPINSTER WHO DIED NOV. 1ST. 1842, AGED 70 YEARS. 

ALSO OF 

WILLIAM, WELFITT, WHO DIED MARCH 25TH. 1844, AGED 69 YEARS" 

DB 15 May 2022

Pilham, All Saints, church, image
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF HAMILTON HENRY STANLEY, SON OF THE REV. HAMILTON LOWRY, AND HIS BELOVED WIFE. HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE TO THE GREAT DISTRESS AND SORROW OF HIS PARENTS THAT LOVED HIM, AND IS NOW SINGING THE PRAISE OF HIS REDEEMER ...

ALSO TO THE REVD. HAMILTON E LOWRY, RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED FEBRUARY 26TH 1862 AGED 32, AND WAS INTERRED AT DOWNPATRICK-IRELAND"

DB 15 May 2022

Pilham, All Saints, church, image
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument

"In the chancel is a monument to William Dunkin, d.1838, in the form of a Greek altar with anthemion in pediment and flaming urn with acanthus base above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317137?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Pilham, All Saints, church, image, William Dunkin monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument

"IN MEMORY OF THE REVD. JOHN MAXWELL WEIR, L.L.D. D.C.L., FOR 20 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED 27TH MAY 1882; AGED 67"

DB 15 May 2022

Pilham, All Saints, church, image. JOHN MAXWELL WEIR
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument
Pilham, All Saints, Monument

Welfitt family memorial recording placement of the east window.

"To the Glory of God and in memory of The Revd. William Welfitt D.D. Died 1833 Aged 87, of Elizabeth Welfitt his daughter Died 1842 Aged 70, of William Welfitt his son Died 1844 Aged 69, and of Colonel Samuel William Welfitt Died 25th April 1889 Aged 82, Their Heir.

This window and brass are placed here by his widow Letitia Mary Welfitt in loving and sorrowful remembrance 1891"

DB 15 May 2022

Pilham, All Saints, church, image, Welfitt
Pinchbeck, St Mary, South Aisle
Pinchbeck, St Mary, South Aisle
Pinchbeck, St Mary, South Aisle

Looking east towards the Pinchbeck Tomb next to the altar.

DB 28 April 2019

Pinchbeck, Saint Mary, Church, south aisle
Pinchbeck, St Mary, South Aisle, Pinchbeck Tomb
Pinchbeck, St Mary, South Aisle, Pinchbeck Tomb
Pinchbeck, St Mary, South Aisle, Pinchbeck Tomb

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

Pinchbeck, Saint Mary, Church, tomb
Potterhanworth, St Andrew, Nave, Dr Richard Smith
Potterhanworth, St Andrew, Nave, Dr Richard Smith
Potterhanworth, St Andrew, Nave, Dr Richard Smith

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

Potterhanworth, Saint Andrew, Church, Dr Richard Smith
Quarrington, St Botolph, Nave, Monument
Quarrington, St Botolph, Nave, Monument
Quarrington, St Botolph, Nave, Monument

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

Quarrington, Saint Botolph, church
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Monument

"Chancel north wall with late C13 tomb set in C19 tomb recess with ball flower decoration. Recumbent female effigy with angels supporting pillow, hands in prayer, shield lying on her middle, dog at feet, re-cut face and rich drapery"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Plaque
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Plaque
Rand, St Oswald, Chancel, Plaque

Prominent brass plaque in the floor of the chancel for Richard Burdon Esquire who died 1812. 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image, Richard Burdon
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument

"Early C13, richly coped Purbeck marble coffin lid"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image, coffin lid
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument

"White marble monument to Anna Matham died 1602, with Death with sickle and hour glass, woman kneeling in ruff with 3 sons and 2 daughters in front of her, and 3 daughters behind"

http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image, Anna Matham, monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument

"Brasses re-set on ashlar in 1890, of William Mettram of Bolington, died 1590, with standing woman in embroidered dress to right, fragment of praying woman on left with a knight's armoured legs below. Coats of arms in between"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image, Brasses, William Mettram
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument

"White marble monument to Dorothy Leigh, died 1613 with woman in ruff kneeling at prieu dieu"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image, Dorothy Leigh, monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument

"Early C17 ashlar monument to Sir Vincent Fulnetby and wives, c.1593, with tall finials and numerous shields"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image, Sir Vincent Fulnetby, monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument

"Pink, white and grey veined marble monument to Sir Sapcote Harington, died 1630, with wife, both in prayer under round headed arches with 3 daughters and 2 sons in prayer set beneath with winged skull and laurel wreath"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument
Rand, St Oswald, Nave, Monument

"Grey marble monument to Charles and Elizabeth Metham, 1628, with man and woman kneeling opposite each other, wearing ruffs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 May 2022

Rand, Saint Oswald church, image, monument, Charles and Elizabeth Metham
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"In proud and ever loving memory of Edward Baker Godfrey 90th Canadian Rifles. Second son of Rev. George and Mrs Godfrey, Vicar of this Parish. Fell in action near Lous, Flanders on July27, 1917 aged 46 years. S.John XV 13. Erected by the family"

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Edward Baker Godfrey, war memorial
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument

"broad crocketed ogee-arched niche to north with sub-cusping and carved shield finial over fine incised black marble grave slab to Gerald Sothill (d1410) with inscribed border and figure of knight flanked by angels, re-set 1985"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Gerald Sothill
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet

Memorial to William, 9th Duke of St Albans (1801-1849), who firstly married Harriet Coutts, widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. She was 23 years his senior. After her death William married Elizabeth Gubbins who outlived him by some 44 years.

Mark Acton, 2010 

Redbourne,
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet

"Good series of marble wall tablets in chancel ...

South side: to William, 8th Duke of St Albans and Maria his wife, of c1825"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Duke of St Albans
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet

"Good series of marble wall tablets in chancel ...

South side: to ... to Roger Carter (d1774), with carved base and fine relief of ship and oriental landscape with pagoda, ... attributed to Richard Hayward, 1778-9"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Roger Carter, Richard Hayward
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet

"Good series of marble wall tablets in chancel. South side: to William Carter (d1752), with carved urn bearing relief of men planting a tree  ... attributed to Richard Hayward, 1778-9;

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, William Carter
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet

"Good series of marble wall tablets in chancel.

South side: to Charlotte and Rev Robert Carter Thelwall, of 1782, by Hayward, with obelisk and relief of mourning figure with urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Thelwall, Hayward
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet

"Good series of marble wall tablets in chancel. 

North side: to Harriot, Duchess of St Albans, of 1838, by Chantry, with draped altar bearing arms and coronet in relief"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Duchess of St Albans, Chantry
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet
Redbourne, St Andrew, Chancel, Wall Tablet

"Good series of marble wall tablets in chancel.

North side: to Charlotte, Lady Beauclerk, of c1825"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Charlotte, Lady Beauclerk
Redbourne, St Andrew, South Aisle, War Memorial
Redbourne, St Andrew, South Aisle, War Memorial
Redbourne, St Andrew, South Aisle, War Memorial

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports "on the east wall of the nave is a white marble tablet in memory of the nine men of this parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/5426 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, war memorial
Redbourne, St Andrew, Tower, Gravestone
Redbourne, St Andrew, Tower, Gravestone
Redbourne, St Andrew, Tower, Gravestone

"Gravestone in tower to Thomas Waterhouse of 1723 with rustic inscription and ornament"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346524?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 November 2023

Redbourne, Saint Andrew Church, image, Gravestone, Thomas Waterhouse
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial

"Ashlar monument on south wall of chancel to Ann Benet, died 1738, with scrolls and coat of arms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064025?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022

Reepham, St Peter & St Paul Church, image
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial by Wray of Lincoln. 

"NEAR THIS PLACE LIES THE BODY OF GILBERT BENET, MASTER OF ARTS, VICAR OF THIS CHURCH AND PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN, WHO DIED THE 23RD DAY OF APRIL 1783, IN THE 83RD YEAR OF HIS AGE"

DB 14 May 2022

Reepham, St Peter & St Paul Church, image, GILBERT BENET
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial on the south wall of the sanctuary. 

"IN MEMORY OF THE REV: EDWARD BROMHEAD, M.A. SIXTY FOUR YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH; WHO DIED JANUARY THE 16th 1835 AGED 88 YEARS ALSO OF KATHERINE , RELICT OF THE REV: EDWARD BROMHEAD; DIED FEBRUARY THE 10TH 1837: AGED 82 YEARS"

DB 14 May 2022

Reepham, St Peter & St Paul Church, image, EDWARD BROMHEAD
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial
Reepham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF JOHN WILLIAM ELVIDGE BORN AT REEPHAM ON NOVEMBER 9TH 1914 DIED IN A PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP IN SIAM ON DECEMBER 8TH 1942" 

DB 14 May 2022

Reepham, St Peter & St Paul Church, image, ELVIDGE
Revesby, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Banks Memorial
Revesby, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Banks Memorial
Revesby, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Banks Memorial

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

Revesby, St Lawrence, Joseph Banks, Revesby Abbey
Revesby, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Banks Memorial
Revesby, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Banks Memorial
Revesby, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Banks Memorial

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 

Revesby, Sir Joseph Banks, John Nost
Rigsby, St James, Memorial
Rigsby, St James, Memorial
Rigsby, St James, Memorial

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF RICHARD MAYNARD BUDIBENT WHO DIED AT POTCHEFSTROOM, SOUTH AFRICA NOV 3RD 1901, AGED 19 YEARS"

A casualty of the Second Boer War?

DB 19 November 2023 

Rigsby, Saint James Church, image, MEMORIAL, RICHARD MAYNARD BUDIBENT
Rigsby, St James, Memorial
Rigsby, St James, Memorial
Rigsby, St James, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE Memory of William Kingston Gent who departed this Life the 1st Septr 1792 aged 60 ... "

DB 19 November 2023 

Rigsby, Saint James Church, image, memorial, William Kingston
Ropsley, St Peter, Monument
Ropsley, St Peter, Monument
Ropsley, St Peter, Monument

"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

Ropsley, St Peter, church,
Ropsley, St Peter, war memorial
Ropsley, St Peter, war memorial
Ropsley, St Peter, war memorial

The First World War memorial.

Mark Acton, 2014

Ropsley, St Peter church, first world war memorial
Roughton, St Margaret, Chancel, Monument
Roughton, St Margaret, Chancel, Monument
Roughton, St Margaret, Chancel, Monument

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

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

DB 24 August 2019

Roughton, Saint Margaret, church, Arthur Rockcliffe
Roughton, St Margaret, Chancel, Monument
Roughton, St Margaret, Chancel, Monument
Roughton, St Margaret, Chancel, Monument

Alabaster wall plaque to Norreys Fynes d.1735.

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

DB 24 August 2019

Roughton, Saint Margaret, church, Norreys Fynes
Roughton, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Roughton, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Roughton, St Margaret, Nave, Monument

"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

Roughton, Saint Margaret, church, monument
Ruckland, St Olave, Coffin Lid
Ruckland, St Olave, Coffin Lid
Ruckland, St Olave, Coffin Lid
section of Saxon stone
A section of an C11th coffin lid with a foliated cross head, now set into the north wall opposite the door.
 
Jean Howard, April 2018 
Ruckland, Saint Olave Church, image, saxon stone
Ruckland, St Olave, Ledger Slab
Ruckland, St Olave, Ledger Slab
Ruckland, St Olave, Ledger Slab
This may have been a gravestone or a ledger slab set in the floor of the earlier church but now set into the fabric inside the west end of the building.  It reads:
 
Here lyeth the Body/Of Charles Humfrey/Gent Kind to his friends/& Relations Charitable/To The Poore of Ruckland/Farforth & Habrough/For Ever A Lover of &/Noble Benefactor to/The Church& by/Plate & a Scholarship/To Jesus Colledge of/Which he Was Student/& Graduate Died May/The 25 1719 Aged 53.
 
Jean Howard, April 2018 
Ruckland, Saint Olave Church, image, ledger slab
Ruskington, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Ruskington, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Ruskington, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

"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

Ruskington, All Saints, Church Robert Cranwell
Saleby, St Margaret, monument
Saleby, St Margaret, monument
Saleby, St Margaret, monument
The effigy is possibly of William de Hardreshull who died in 1303. (The entry in Pevsner has more to say about this monument than the remainder of the church combined.)
Saleby, St Margaret, monument, William de Hardreshull
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Jaques)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Jaques)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Jaques)

This is a touching memorial from members of the Sunday School and other friends for Norman Jaques who served in 1st/6th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry.
 
Norman was the eldest son of agricultural labourer, John William Jaques and his wife Betsy nee Leak. He is buried at Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais.

Jean Howard, 2 March 2022

Saltfleetby St Peter church, Norman Jaques Memorial, Betsy Leak, Warlencourt Cemetery
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Oldham)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Oldham)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Oldham)

The Oldham family lived in Saltfleetby House for several generations.

A prospect tower was built in the house grounds by Thomas Oldham in order, it is believed, that he could check his labourers were working in the fields.

Jean Howard, 2 March 2022

Saltfleetby St Peter, Thomas Oldham, Monuments
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Stones)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Stones)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Stones)

The text below this unusual pair of giant keys reads:
 
HARRY STONES/ CHURCHWARDEN HERE FOR/ 20 YEARS FORGED THESE KEYS/ WE THE PARISH THUS/ COMMEMORATE HIM/ AUGUST 1968

Jean Howard, 2 March 2022

Saltfleetby St Peter, Stones Memorial
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Williamson)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Williamson)
Saltfleetby, St Peter, Memorial (Williamson)

This quite substantial monument with segmental pediment and reeded pilasters is worthy of restoration.
 
The damaged figures at the head were described as weeping angels in 1919, and the text is now almost impossible to read.
 
It is to John Williamson, Gent, who died in 1722 and his wife Frances nee Gonvill.
 
It has evidently been brought from the old church and is erected on the east wall of the north aisle. 

Jean Howard, 2 March 2022

Saltfleetby St Peter, John Williamson, Memorial, Frances Gonvill
Saxilby, St Botolph, North Chapel, Daubeny Tomb
Saxilby, St Botolph, North Chapel, Daubeny Tomb
Saxilby, St Botolph, North Chapel, Daubeny Tomb

"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

Saxilby, Saint Botolph, church, north chapel, Daubeny tomb, D'Aubigny
Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Grantham)
Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Grantham)
Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Grantham)

The memorial for Reading Grantham is made from a slab of limestone with two small columns of streaked marble flanking the inscription.

Grantham died in 1869.

[Note: These details have been carefully checked. There are errors in the listing description  

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

DB 9 September 2018

Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Reading Grantham, P. Belton
Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Thorndike)
Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Thorndike)
Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Thorndike)

The monument is for Margaret Thorndike nee Coppinger, daughter of the Revd Henry Coppinger, vicar of Lavenham, Suffolk.

She was born 1 May 1592, married Francis Thorndike in 1614 and possibly died soon afterwards.

The Latin is hard to decipher and abbreviated but there is a verse in English which reads:

THE RIGHTEOUS SOULE HER TOMBE OF FLESH FORSAKING/ NO JET, NO MARBLE MONUMENT REQUIRES/ BUT TO HER PLACE NY (NIGH?) GOD ABOVE BE TAKING/ THE HART ON EARTH NO OTHER TOMBE DESIRES/ AND ENVIES NOT THOSE POMPOUS NAMES WHOSE LIVES/ MONY AND SKILL, NOT LOVE AND SORROW, GIVES/ FRANCISCUS THORNDIKE L.M.P.
 
[Note: These details have been carefully checked. There are errors in the Historic England Listing Description]
 

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

DB 9 September 2018

Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Margaret Henry
Scampton, St John Baptist, memorial
Scampton, St John Baptist, memorial
Scampton, St John Baptist, memorial

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

Scampton, St John Baptist, memorial, Catherine Bolles, John Bolles, Thomas Conyers
Scampton, St John Baptist, memorial
Scampton, St John Baptist, memorial
Scampton, St John Baptist, memorial

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

Scampton, St John Baptist memorial
Scawby, St Hybald, Chancel, Memorial
Scawby, St Hybald, Chancel, Memorial
Scawby, St Hybald, Chancel, Memorial

Monument to Richard Nelthorpe, died 1640.

August 2011

Scawby, St Hybald, memorial, Richard Nelthorpe
Scawby, St Hybald, North Aisle, Monument
Scawby, St Hybald, North Aisle, Monument
Scawby, St Hybald, North Aisle, Monument

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

Scawby, Saint Hybald, Church
Scopwick, Holy Cross, North Aisle, Monument
Scopwick, Holy Cross, North Aisle, Monument
Scopwick, Holy Cross, North Aisle, Monument

"IN MEMORY OF ANN, WIFE OF THOMAS PEARS, OF SCOPWICK LODGE, WHO DIED MAY 9TH A.D. 1851, AGED 82 YEARS.

ALSO IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE ABOVE NAMED THOMAS PEARS, WHO DIED FEBRUARY 15TH 1856, AGED 88 YEARS"

DB 1 October 2022

Scopwick, Holy Cross, Church, monument
Scopwick, Holy Cross, North Aisle, Monument
Scopwick, Holy Cross, North Aisle, Monument
Scopwick, Holy Cross, North Aisle, Monument

"Wall tablet in north aisle to Wm Pears 1856 with pilaster surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064299?section=official-list-entry 

DB 1 October 2022

Scopwick, Holy Cross, Church, William Pears
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, Boer War Memorial
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, Boer War Memorial
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, Boer War Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ARTHUR WILLIAM HALL F.R.C.S.ED. OF DURBAN, NATAL. SECOND SON OF THE VICAR OF THIS PARISH. BORN 26TH MAY 1861 DIED 20TH MARCH 1900. FOR SOME YEARS SURGEON TO THE DURBAN LIGHT INFTRY. HE DIED OF ENTERIC FEVER WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE DURING THE BOER WAR. HIS BODY LIES IN THE CHURCHYARD AT MOOI RIVER"

DB 1 October 2022

Scopwick, Holy Cross, Church, ARTHUR WILLIAM HALL
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, Effigy
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, Effigy
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, Effigy

Church Guide Notes by Rev. Hugh Bailey 1993 state :-

"Near the Font there is an ancient stone Coffin Lid with the effigy of a knight in armour — a 14th Century knight, according to Henry Thorold. Pevsner, more cautiously, says 'not at all the usual type.' Bonney's Church Notes of 1845 ascribe the knight to the Daincourt family, who owned Blankney"

DB 1 October 2022

Scopwick, Holy Cross, Church
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, WW1 Memorial
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, WW1 Memorial
Scopwick, Holy Cross, South Aisle, WW1 Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF PTE. JOHN WILLIAM WATSON, 6TH LEICESTER REGT. KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE, SEPT 16TH 1918. AGED 21 YEARS.

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS FATHER AND MOTHER. R.I.P."

DB 1 October 2022

Scopwick, Holy Cross, Church
Scotton, St Genewys, War Memorial
Scotton, St Genewys, War Memorial
Scotton, St Genewys, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Scotton, St Genewys, First World War memorial
Scredington, St Andrew, monument
Scredington, St Andrew, monument
Scredington, St Andrew, monument

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

June 2017

Scredington, St Andrew, monument, Thomas Wyke
Scredington, St Andrew, War Memorial
Scredington, St Andrew, War Memorial
Scredington, St Andrew, War Memorial

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

Scredington, St Andrew war memorial
Scredington,St Andrew, War Memorial
Scredington,St Andrew, War Memorial
Scredington,St Andrew, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Scredington, St Andrew, war memorial
Scremby, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Scremby, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Scremby, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

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

Scremby, St Peter & St Paul church memorial, Charles Brackenbury, Scremby Hall
Scremby, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Martha Moody Monument
Scremby, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Martha Moody Monument
Scremby, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Martha Moody Monument

On the south side of the nave is this marble memorial to Martha Moody nee Thory who died in 1742 aged 54. Perhaps her widower, John, intended to be commemorated in the space below her name but he went on to marry again, and his second wife survived him and also remarried. There were no Moody children. It has a skull and palms on the base.

Jean Howard 29 April 2023

Scremby, Sts Peter & Paul, Martha Moody Monument
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Brass Plaque
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Brass Plaque
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Brass Plaque

Detail of one of the brass plaques in the chancel. 

"Under this Stone lyes the Body of Sir Robert Dymoke Bannerett who was A General to King Henery ye 8th: at ye Takeing of Tourney in France and left there his Treasurer: his Monument was Removd under the Arch in 1760 by ye present Champion's Orders"

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorial

"Monuments include: ... one to Lewis Dymoke, died 1820, of white marble on a grey field"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, Lewis Dymoke
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorial

"Monuments include: one to John Tyrwhitt, died 1845, a white marble scroll on a black marble field"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, John Tyrwhitt
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorials
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorials
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Memorials

"Monuments include: ... one to John Dymoke, died 1784, white marble with urn, palms and coat of arms; 3 brass plaques recording burial nearby of Charles Dymoke, his wife and son, undated; Lewis Dymoke, died 1760 and removal of tomb of Robert Dymoke, Champion to Henry VIII" 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, John Dymoke
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Monument
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Monument
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Chancel, Monument

"A large white marble monument with yellow-grey streaked marble inlay, to Lewis Dymoke, died 1760, by W. Atkinson with open pediment, good bust, ... , extinguished torches, drapery threaded through rings and a snake biting its tail"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

"Near this Place lieth Interr'd the Body of the Honble LEWIS DYMOKE Esqr late Champion of ENGLAND, who Performed that Service at the Coronation of KING GEORGE the 1st, and KING GEORGE the 2d, He was the Youngest Son of Sr CHARLES DYMOKE, and ELEANOR his Wife Eldest Daughter of the First LORD ROCKINGHAM. He departed this life on the 5th of February 1760, in the 91st Year of his Age.

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, monument, LEWIS DYMOKE
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Memorial

On the south wall of the nave "A white and grey marble monument to John Dymoke, died 1828"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD JOHN DYMOKE, LATE RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, AND FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF HIS LIFE THE HONORABLE THE KING'S CHAMPION. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 3RD DAY OF DECEMBER 1828 AGED 64 YEARS AND BURIED IN THE FAMILY VAULT IN THIS CHURCH. 

AS A TESTIMONY OF AFFECTION AND RESPECT, THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS SON, HENRY DYMOKE WHO SUCCEEDED HIM"

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, JOHN DYMOKE
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Memorial

On the south wall of the nave  "A white marble monument to Lewis Jones, died 1786"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, Lewis Jones
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards

Local signage states :- 

"On the west wall we have a group of wooden memorials. These were found in the church tower during recent renovations and have been restored so people can read what is written on them. They were originally erected as memorials to staff who had served Scrivelsby estate, by Sir Henry Dymoke. These were ordinary people who put in years of service to Sir Henry and his estate. They certainly seem to have made an impression on him with their service, for him to create this unique legacy for them. The largest board is dedicated to four Scrivelsby servants" 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards

"IN MEMORY OF ANN MARFLEET who was accidentally drowned AUGST 1ST 1862. AGED 83. She was the Lodge Gate Keeper at Scrivelsby Court for 26 Years"

Local signage reports "Ann was not married and sadly drowned in a pond close by Scrivelsby Court".

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, ANN MARFLEET
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, Nave, Servant's Boards

Board dedicated to John Tasker.

Local signage reads "It is not possible to read what his role was, but the census returns indicate he was a farmer and a parish clerk. He was married to Mary and had three children. His eldest son, Richard, was a gamekeeper on the Scrivelsby estate and was shot dead by poachers in 1850. His headstone can be seen in the church graveyard and Tasker plantation on the estate is probably named in his memory"

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, John Tasker
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorial
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorial

"An ashlar and white marble monument to Sir Henry Dymoke, died 1865"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, Sir Henry Dymoke
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorials
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorials
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorials

Plaques in memory of Arthur Kirby a former Rector died 1963 and Major Sydney Bunch who was killed in 1943.

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, Arthur Kirby, Major Sydney Bunch
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorials
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorials
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Memorials

Plaques in memory of Herbert Lodge who died at Calcutta in 1886 and Francis Lodge who died at Cottesloe, Western Australia in 1899.

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, Herbert Lodge, Francis Lodge
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Monuments
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Monuments
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Monuments

"2 recumbent effigies of c.1300, of a knight and his lady, probably Sir Philip and Lady Marmion; the lady with her hands in prayer, a wimple and a dog at her feet; the knight in chain mail, a tunic, but missing his legs and the blade of his sword"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Monuments
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Monuments
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Monuments

Another view of the two recumbent effigies.

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Tomb Chest
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Tomb Chest
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Tomb Chest

"Tomb chest of Sir Robert Dymoke, died 1545 with brass effigy of bearded man"

http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252195?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, Sir Robert Dymoke
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Tomb Chest
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Tomb Chest
Scrivelsby, St Benedict, North Aisle, Tomb Chest

Detail of the shield on Sir Robert Dymoke's tomb chest.

Kelly's Directory 1930 has "Sir Robert Dymoke, knight banneret, ob. 12 Ap. 1545, Champion at the Coronations of Richard III. Henry VII. and Henry VIII. ; over the head of the figure is a shield of 10 quarterings"

DB 10 September 2023

Scrivelsby, Saint Benedict church, image, Sir Robert Dymoke
Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Benefactions Tablet
Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Benefactions Tablet
Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, North Aisle, Benefactions Tablet

"Marble benefactions tablet, 1717"

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

DB 6 February 2019 

Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, church, north aisle, Benefactions Tablet
Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, South Chapel
Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, South Chapel
Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, South Chapel

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

Mark Acton, 2014

Sedgebrook, St Lawrence, Dorothy Markham
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass

A brass to John Leigh, rector, ob. 1681.

DB 20 August 2018

Silk Willoughby, Saint Denis church, brass, image, John Leigh
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass

A memorial brass which seems to mention the names of Hugone Watts and Joanne Watts together with the date MDCL (1650).

DB 20 August 2018

Silk Willoughby, Saint Denis church, image, brass, Watts
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass
Silk Willoughby, St Denis, Memorial Brass

A brass to Elizabeth Wyche, ob. 1691.

DB 30 September 2018

Silk Willoughby, Saint Denis church, image, memorial brass
Sixhills, All Saints, Monument
Sixhills, All Saints, Monument
Sixhills, All Saints, Monument

"Beneath are deposited the Remains of Mr William Gwillim who died October ye 26th 1777 ..."

DB 7 June 2022

Sixhills, All Saints Church, image
Sixhills, All Saints, Monument
Sixhills, All Saints, Monument
Sixhills, All Saints, Monument

"SACRED to the memory of ELIZABETH CHRISTINA KNIGHT daughter of ALEXANDER KNIGHT GENT. of Sixhill Grange who died Feby. 2nd 1800 Aged 20"

DB 7 June 2022

Sixhills, All Saints Church, image
Skillington, St James, grave cover
Skillington, St James, grave cover
Skillington, St James, grave cover

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

March 2017

Skillington, St James, grave cover
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Ann Lomax
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Ann Lomax
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Ann Lomax

A monument to Ann Lomax d.1736 in the north aisle near the font.

DB 18 November 2019

Sleaford, Saint Denys, Church, monument, Ann Lomax
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Edward Carre, 1st Baronet
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Edward Carre, 1st Baronet
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Edward Carre, 1st Baronet

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

Sleaford, St Denys church, Sir Edward Carre, Maximilian Colt
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Edward Carre, 4th Baronet
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Edward Carre, 4th Baronet
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Edward Carre, 4th Baronet

"SR EDWARD CARE SONN OF SR ROBERT CARE THE 4TH BARONET OF THE FAMILY DEPARTED THIS LIFE DEC. YE 28. 1683"

Local signage relating to the Carre family states "Sir Edward Carre, who died in 1683, soon after his father, was the last in the male line. His daughter married John Hervey. later Earl of Bristol"

DB 27 August 2019

Sleaford, Saint Denys, Church, Sir Edward Carre
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Robert Carre
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Robert Carre
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Robert Carre

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1930 states "on the north side of the chancel arch, is a plain low altar-tomb with pilasters supporting a canopy, numerous shields of arms, and an inscription to Robert Carr esq. ob. 1590, his three wives and children, with their respective alliances"

DB 27 August 2019

Sleaford, Saint Denys Church, Robert Carre, Monument
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Theophilus Brittaine
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Theophilus Brittaine
Sleaford, St Denys, Monument Theophilus Brittaine

A brass to Theophilus Brittaine, ob. 12 Sep. 1696.

DB 25 June 2019

Sleaford, Saint Denys, Church, brass Theophilus Brittaine
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1a
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1a
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1a

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

Snarford, St Lawrence, St Pol, Monument,
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1b
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1b
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1b

Detail of the monument for Robert Lord Rich.

May 2018

Snarford, St Lawrence, monument
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1c
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1c
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 1c

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

May 2018

Snarford, St Lawrence, monument
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 2a
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 2a
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 2a

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

May 2018

Snarford, St Lawrence, monument, Sir George St Pol
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 2b
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 2b
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 2b

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

Snarford, St Lawrence church, monument, St Pol,
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 3
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 3
Snarford, St Lawrence, Monument 3

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

Snarford, St Lawrence, monument, St Pol,
South Carlton, St John Baptist, Chancel, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, Chancel, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, Chancel, Monument

"In the chancel north wall an C18 marble plaque to Thomas Carlton with arms above and crossed palm leaves beneath"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359493?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 August 2022

South Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image, monument, Thomas Carlton
South Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave, Monument

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF RICHARD FOSTER DIXON, OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY ARCHDEACON KAYE, CURATE OF THIS PARISH, AND BY THE PARISHIONERS, WHOM FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS HE SERVED WITH PERSEVERING FAITHFULNESS AND KINDNESS, BORN JUNE 22ND I839, ENTERED INTO REST JULY 15TH 1892" 

DB 4 August 2022

South Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image, RICHARD FOSTER DIXON
South Carlton, St John Baptist, North Chapel, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, North Chapel, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, North Chapel, Monument

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

October 2016

South Carlton, St John Baptist church, monument, Sir John Monson, Nicholas Stone
South Carlton, St John Baptist, North Chapel, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, North Chapel, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, North Chapel, Monument

"An elaborate alabaster and marble tomb to Sir John and Lady Monson, 1625, by Nicholas Stone. A free standing 6 poster with effigies of the deceased in plate armour reclining with his wife on embroidered cushions, a large tomb chest with 9 kneeling weepers at the sides and foot. 6 Doric columns support an elaborate scrolled and raised pediment containing a Latin inscription on the south side"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359493?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 August 2022

South Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image
South Carlton, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
South Carlton, St John Baptist, South Aisle, Monument

"THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO RECORD THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND LOVE OF HENRY BOURNE SON OF JOHN BOURNE OF DALBY IN THIS COUNTY. WHO ENDED LIFE'S JOURNEY, JUNE 2ND 1793. AGED 48 YEARS. IN HOPE OF EVERLASTING SALVATION THROUGH A CRUCIFIED SAVIOUR. HIS MORTAL REMAINS, TOGETHER WITH THOSE OF HIS FOUR INFANT CHILDREN AND HIS SISTER-IN-LAW-HANNAH BOURNE, ARE DEPOSITED BENEATH THE FLOOR OF THIS CHURCH"

DB 4 August 2022

South Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image, monument
South Elkington, All Saints, South Aisle, Chapel, War Memorial
South Elkington, All Saints, South Aisle, Chapel, War Memorial
South Elkington, All Saints, South Aisle, Chapel, War Memorial

"TO THE GLORY OF THE EVER BLESSED TRINITY & IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF NORTH & SOUTH ELKINGTON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19 ... "

DB 19 March 2023

South Elkington, All Saints Church, image, war memorial
South Elkington, All Saints, South Aisle, Monument
South Elkington, All Saints, South Aisle, Monument
South Elkington, All Saints, South Aisle, Monument

""THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY A GRATEFUL SON IN MEMORY OF HIS ESTEEMED PARENT ELIZABETH TROUGHT, WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 15TH 1832, AGED 75 YEARS; AND OF HER HUSBAND SAMUEL TROUGHT, ESQ. WHO DIED MAY 7TH 1804, AGED 71 YEARS ... "

DB 19 March 2023

South Elkington, All Saints Church, image, TROUGHT
South Kyme, St Mary & All Saints, memorial
South Kyme, St Mary & All Saints, memorial
South Kyme, St Mary & All Saints, memorial

The Cust family memorial.

T R Leach Collection, undated

South Kyme, Cust memorial
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Brass
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Brass
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Brass

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

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

DB 14 August 2018 

South Ormsby, St Leonard, church, brass
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Brass
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Brass
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Brass

"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 

South Ormsby, St Leonard, church, brass, Sir William Skipwith
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Monument
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Monument
South Ormsby, St Leonard, Monument

"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

South Ormsby, St Leonard, church, William Burrell Massingberd
South Somercotes, St Peter, Memorial
South Somercotes, St Peter, Memorial
South Somercotes, St Peter, Memorial

Wall-mounted memorial to Thomas Bennett Freshney, born 18 September 1843.

The inscription says that he died on 21 January 1906 "shortly after his return home from America where he had been acting as judge at the great International Show at Chicago".

June 2008

South Somercotes, St Peter, memorial, Thomas, Bennett Freshney, International Show Chicago
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial

"Sacred to the Memory of The Rev. J. W. Vernon Taylor, Rector of this Parish from 1883 to 1900, formerly Vicar of Hainton and Sixhills. Justice of the Peace for the Parts of Lindsey.

Grant him, O Lord, eternal rest, and let perpetual light shine on him"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image, Rev. J. W. Vernon Taylor
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial

"In affectionate remembrance of ARTHUR TEMPERLEY, M.A. Prebendary of Lafford in Lincoln Cathedral, born May 2nd 1850, died February 20th 1927; for 25 years Rector of this parish; also of FRANCES GEORGIANA HOWARD, his wife, born May 5th 1858, died October 4th 1914. This Tablet is erected by their two sons and five daughters"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image, ARTHUR TEMPERLEY
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD ROWLAND GROVE CURTOIS, D.D., LATE CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES; WHO DIED AT ROCHESTER, ON THE 23RD OF JANUARY1849, AGED 62 YEARS. HE WAS THE ELDEST SON OF THE REVD ROWLAND CURTOIS, L.L.B., FORMERLY RECTOR OF THIS PARISH. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS BEREAVED WIDOW, MARY CURTOIS"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial

"Sacred to the Memory of the Revd ROWLAND CURTOIS L.L.B, who died June 11th 1823. Ætat suæ 66. Also of MARY his Wife who died 27th October 1808, Ætat suæ 54"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial

Difficult to decipher the inscription on this memorial. In part it seems to read " ... Rector of this Parish and formerly Vicar of Hainton who entered into eternal rest January 28th 1830 Aged 79 years ... "

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial

IN MEMORY OF FRANK LACEY 1916-2008 AND HIS WIFE JILL LACEY 1922-2006 LONG TIME RESIDENTS OF THIS PARISH AND BENEFACTORS TO THIS AND OTHER CHURCHES IN THE BARKWITH GROUP.

THEIR GIFTS AND BEQUESTS FUNDED THE REPAIR OF THE TOWER AND INTERNAL REDECORATION IN 2010 AS WELL AS CONTRIBUTING TO THE PURCHASE OF ALTAR CLOTHS IN 2012"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image, LACEY
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Curtois)
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Curtois)
South Willingham, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Curtois)

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

July 2012

South Willingham, St Martin, George Henry Curtois
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Memorial

"Sacred To the Memory of ELEANOR Relict of the late Lt COLONEL BOWERS 13th Light Dragoons Died 17th March 1877, Aged 81 Years"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image, Lt COLONEL BOWERS
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Memorial

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THOMAS HENRY THARRATT PTE 3RD BN LINCOLNSHIRE REGT YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE GEORGE THARRATT SOUTH WILLINGHAM BORN JUNE 5TH 1879 DIED AT ST OMER FRANCE OCT 29 1916 OF WOUNDS RECIEVED IN ACTION "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK"

ALSO OF GEORGE VANES THARRATT LIEUT 4TH BN THE KINGS LIVERPOOL REG ONLY SON OF GEORGE ROW THARRATT BORN AUG 20TH 1895 LOST WITH THE HOSPITAL SHIP ANGLIA TORPEDOED IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL NOV 17 1915 UNTIL THE SEA GIVES UP ITS DEAD"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image, THARRATT, war memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Roll of Honour
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Roll of Honour
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, Roll of Honour

"Roll of Honour Parish of South Willingham ... 1914~1918"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image, roll of honour
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, War Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, War Memorial
South Willingham, St Martin, Nave, War Memorial

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY 1914 - 1918

(NAMES) 

"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"

ERECTED IN THE CENTENARY YEAR OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT WAR"

DB 30 October 2023

South Willingham, Saint Martin Church, image, war memorial
Southrey, St John the Divine, Memorial Window
Southrey, St John the Divine, Memorial Window
Southrey, St John the Divine, Memorial Window

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

Southrey, St John the Divine, war memorial window
Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas, memorial
Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas, memorial
Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas, memorial

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

Spalding, St Mary & St Nicholas church, memorial, George Cooper Blackbourn
Spilsby, St James, Bertie memorial
Spilsby, St James, Bertie memorial
Spilsby, St James, Bertie memorial

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

Spilsby, Richard Bertie, Catherine Willoughby, Eresby House, Charles Brandon
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial

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

Spilsby, St James church, Robert Willoughby
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial

Monument to John, third Baron Willoughby, died 1372.

He distinguished himself in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.

September 2011

Spilsby, St James church, monument, John Baron Willoughby, Poitiers
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial

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

Spilsby, St James church, Richard Bertie, Catherine Willoughby, Eresby House, Grimsthorpe Castle, Ch
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial
Spilsby, St James, memorial

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

Spilsby, St James church, John Franklin, north-west passage
Spridlington, St Hilary, Bronze Portrait Plaque
Spridlington, St Hilary, Bronze Portrait Plaque
Spridlington, St Hilary, Bronze Portrait Plaque

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

DB 20 May 2018

Spridlington, St Hilary, church, Michael Strich Hutton, Libya
Stainfield, St Andrew, war memorial
Stainfield, St Andrew, war memorial
Stainfield, St Andrew, war memorial

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

September 2015

Stainfield, St Andrew war memrial
Stenigot, St Nicholas, Memorial (Guevara)
Stenigot, St Nicholas, Memorial (Guevara)
Stenigot, St Nicholas, Memorial (Guevara)

Alabaster wall monument showing a male figure wearing a ruff and a long over-gown with optional sleeves.  He kneels on a thick tasselled cushion before a prayer desk decorated with hourglass and skull.

Above his head is a ribbon of text which reads: LA MAYOR VICTORIA DE ELLAS ES ELIBIEN MERECILIAS *  The scene is overtopped with a segmental pediment. The text on a slate panel beneath reads:

HERE LIETH YE BODY OF FRANCIS VELLEZ DE GUEVARA A /
NATURALE SPANNYARDE BORNE IN SEGURA IN YE PROVINCE OF BISCAY /
WHO HAD TO HIS FIRST WIFE DENISE READE DAUGHTER AND HEYRE /
TO JHON READE OF BOSTON IN YE COUNTY OF LINCOLNE ES: /
QUIER BY WHOME HE HAD ISSUE ONE DAUGHTER ELLENE AND /
AFTER MARRIED ANN EGERTON DAUGHTER TO JHON EGER /
TON OF WILLOUGHBY IN YE COUNTY AFORESAIDE ESQUIER /
BY WHOME HE HAD ISSUE 5 SONNES VIZ JHON, PEREGRINE, /
HENRY, WILLIAM, GEORGE AND 5 DAUGHTERS VIZ ANNE, SUSAN,
CATHRINE, ELISABETH AND FRAUNCES AND DIED YE TENTH OF /

FEBRUARY 1592

Francis's mother was Ynez, daughter of John Sancriz de Salinas. Ynez's sister, Maria de Salinas came to England with Katherine of Aragon as her Maid of Honour. Maria married into the Willoughby de Eresby family and her daughter Katherine left her cousin Francis (above) a pension of £30.

The de Guevara family lived in the Manor House in Stenigot, the site of which is marked by a moat near the site of the old church.

* Their greatest victory is good merit

Jean Howard, November 2020 

Stenigot, St Nicholas, Francis Vellez de Guevara
Stenigot, St Nicholas, Memorial (Guevara)
Stenigot, St Nicholas, Memorial (Guevara)
Stenigot, St Nicholas, Memorial (Guevara)

Alabaster wall monument on the south wall of the nave showing a male figure kneeling on a tasselled cushion at a prayer desk. The figure is oversailed by a cornice supported on two dark stone columns. The text below reads:

HERE LIETH THE BODIE OF SIR JOHN GUEVARA KNIGHT SOMETIMES DE /
PUTIE WARDEN OF THE EAST MARCHES OF ENGLANDE UNDER THE RIGHT /
HONORABLE PEREGRINE LO: WILLOUGHBY BARON OF WILLOUGHBY BEAK /
AND EACESBY SONNE AND HEIRE TO FRANNCIS GUEVARA ESQUIER WHO MARYED /
ANN DAUGHTER OF ROBERT SANDERSON OF SAXEBY IN THE COUNTIE OF LIN: /
COLNE ESQUIER BY WHOME HE HAD ISSUE 6 SONNES VIZT FRANNCIS JOHN /
WILLIAM, THOMAS, CHARLES, AND ROBERT, AND TWOE DAUGHTERS VIZT /
KATHERINE AND MARY, AND DEPARTED THIS LIEFE THE 6 JUNE 1607

Sir John was the eldest son of Francis whose monument is directly opposite. The two monuments were moved from the old church by faculty dated 8 August 1906.

John went on to have a family that included an eldest son Francis buried here in 1644. There were other siblings and descendants, but the family appears to have died out by the end of the century

Jean Howard, November 2020


Stenigot, St Nicholas, Sir John Guevara
Stewton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Stewton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Stewton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument

Monument on the south wall of the chancel. 

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF ROBERT THOMAS DEAKINS M.A. FOR 15 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL ASLEEP FEBRUARY 12TH 1909 MAY HE REST IN PEACE AND LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM"

DB 11 September 2022

Stewton, Saint Andrew, Church, image, Monument, Robert Thomas Deakins
Stickford, St Helen, War Memorial
Stickford, St Helen, War Memorial
Stickford, St Helen, War Memorial

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Stickford, First World War memorial
Stixwould, St Peter, Coffin Lid
Stixwould, St Peter, Coffin Lid
Stixwould, St Peter, Coffin Lid

Coffin lid perhaps from Stixwould Priory.

Mark Acton, 2008

Stixwould, St Peter, Priory, coffin lid
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument

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

Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, Edmund Turnor, Margaret Harrison, Milton Ernest
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument

Monument to Henry Cholmeley, 1641.

July 2011

Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, Henry Cholmeley, monument
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument
Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument

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

July 2011

Stoke Rochford, St Mary & St Andrew, monument
Stragglethorpe, St Michael, Richard Earle Monument
Stragglethorpe, St Michael, Richard Earle Monument
Stragglethorpe, St Michael, Richard Earle Monument

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

DB 14 April 2018

Stragglethorpe, Church, Saint Michael, Richard Earle, Thomas Green, Camberwell
Stroxton, All Saints, Vestry, Tomb
Stroxton, All Saints, Vestry, Tomb
Stroxton, All Saints, Vestry, Tomb

"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 

Local signage states that "All Saints Church has connections with the family of Sir Isaac Newton. William Blyth, Isaac's maternal great, great grandfather, was Lord of the Manor of Stroxton. His tomb, in the chancel records his death On 19th September 1648. For much of his childhood Isaac lived with his grandmother, Margory, some say Marjory, who was William Blyth's daughter"

DB 24 April 2019

Stroxton, All Saints, Church, Monument, Tomb, William Blyth
Stroxton, All Saints, Vestry, Tomb 
Stroxton, All Saints, Vestry, Tomb 
Stroxton, All Saints, Vestry, Tomb 

"HEARE LYETH THE BODY OF WILIAM BLYTH OF STROXTON IN THE COUNTYE OF LINCOLN ESQUYER DECEASED THE 19 DAY OF SEPTEMBER ANN DMO 1648 BEING AGED 50 YEARES"

DB 18 February 2023

Stroxton, All Saints, Church, image, Wiliam Blyth
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

This is a very handsome white marble wall monument in memory of Charles Ballett who died in 1703.
He was perhaps the grandson or great grandson of William Ballet whose monument is nearby.
At the top of the composition is a flaming vase within a broken pediment; beneath this a winged skull is depicted within lily of the valley; and the text is framed within swags of flowers and foliage.
It reads:
 
Here lyeth the Body of CHARLES BALLETT/ Late of Clements Inn in the County of/
Midlesex Gent deceased which CHARLES/
Had to his first Wife ELIZABETH WELLS/
Daughter of JOHN WELLS Gent in the/
County of Kent and he had Issue by her/
Two sons and two daughters CHARLES/
And THO ELIZABETH and SARAH/
He had to his second Wife ANN TINGLE/
Late Widow of WILLIAM TINGLE Gent/
In the County of Northhampton/
By whom he had no Issue/
Obiit 27 Jan 1703/
AEtatis suae 69

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, Church, Charles Ballett, Elizabeth Wells, John Wells, William Tingle
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

Recessed into the south wall of the chancel is this early fourteenth century effigy of a man in civilian clothing. He has long been considered to have been called Adam de Strubby.
 
His face has been chipped away to reveal the diagonally placed cushion on which his head rested.

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, Church, effigy, monument, Adam de Strubby
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

This brass plaque marks the service of Revd W D Sheard. It reads:
 
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF/
WILLIAM DAVID SHEARD M.A. CAMB/
TWENTY YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH/
DIED JANUARY 31 1881 AGED 73 YEARS/
THIS BRASS IS ERECTED/
BY HIS PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS AS/
A TOKEN OF THEIR ESTEEM AND RESPECT. 

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, church, William David Sheard
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

This fine marble tablet remembers Christopher Musgrave Taylor, a surgeon and physician who began his career at St Thomas's Hospital but later worked in the north-eastern area of the Indian subcontinent: Sylhet is in Bangladesh, Cachar in Assam.
 
He was the eldest son of the incumbent here, Revd Christopher Tennant Taylor, appointed to the cure of Strubby in 1881. The son died at Strubby Rectory on 30 November 1884 aged 33 years.

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, church, Christopher Musgrave Taylor, Sylhet
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

This section of Ancaster stone on the wall of the aisle next to the south door, is another monument to the Ballett family.
 
It is said to read:
 
Affor ye porch dor under the stone
Lysse ye body & bons of B:lotts beryed
In the yeyr of owr lorde god I V 3 1
The 1 8 day of January yerly to be notid
Wherfr frendys I pray you have me revivyd
Wt your gud praers tht soner my sall may cum
per me coniuge predicte anno m
v and xxxii
 
By modern reckoning the date of death was 1532 and the implication is that there would be a perpetual anniversary mass, a practice soon to be frowned upon.
 

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, church, Ballett
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

This monument is for William Ballett, his two wives and their children. The tablet at the lower level is a tour de force by the poor mason who managed to leave us a verbal family tree!
 
With original spelling but added punctuation for clarity it says:
 
Here lieth ye body of William Ballett/
[Alderman of London, late] of Woodthorpe in the/
County of Lincoln Esq, Sonne and Heyre of Edward Ballett/
of Ufford in ye County of Suffolck Gent by Ursula ye Daughter/
of Richard Saunders Gent; wich Edward was ye Sonne and Heyre/
of Thomas Ballett of Ufford Gent by Alice Jay. This William/
had two Wives: Joan ye eldest Daughter of Franncis Garton/
of Billingshurst in the County of Sussex Esq and by her had/
two Sonnes and one Daughter, John, William & Elizabeth dead with-
out issue; his other Wife was Susanna eldest daughter of Paterick/
Dethick of Westminster in ye County of Middlesex Gent descended/
of ye name of Dethick called Dedick of Worcestershire. By her he had five/
Sonnes and one Daughter; William, George, Charles, Edward, Richard/
& Rose. William marryed Mary ye Daughter & Coheyr of Richard Horneby/
of Tothill Esq by Winifred ye Daughter of Robert Peyton of Iselam in ye/
County of Cambridge Esq by Elizabeth ye Daughter of Robert Lord/
Rich, wich William had issue William, Richard & Ann. George marryed Eilen/
ye Daughter of William Thorie of Thurleby Gent by whome he had William,/
Charles, George, Francis, Susanna, Mary & Ann. Charles marryed Sarah/
ye Daughter of Thomas Newcomen of Wythren Gent by whome he had/
issue Charles, Samuell & Mary. This William, ye Grand Father dyed 9 May/
1648 being 99 Yeares.

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, church, William Ballett Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

William Ballett died in 1648 at the age of 99 years. He is shown kneeling, looking towards his two wives, Joan and Susanna, kneeling on the other side of a prayer desk.
 
Unusually their children are shown along a shelf at a higher level, the six boys above their father and the two girls above their mother.
 
William is finely robed but bare-headed while his two wives wear unusual cylindrical hats. All figures hold their hands in customary prayerful mode except one of the wives.
 
To the left of the monument recent cracking above the window can be seen, along with some timber bracing that has been deemed necessary. 
 
The Ballett family lived at Woodthorpe Hall, a mid seventeenth century brick house in the south of the parish.

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, church, William Ballett Monument, Woodthorpe Hall
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument
Strubby, St Oswald, Monument

A rather curious flagstone, relatively modern, yet commemorating a fourteenth century priest. Perhaps it replaces an original ledger stone broken during restoration.  

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021

Strubby, Saint Oswald, church, Simon de Woodthorpe
Surfleet, St Laurence, Memorial
Surfleet, St Laurence, Memorial
Surfleet, St Laurence, Memorial

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

Surfleet, Saint Lawrence, church, memorial, St Stephens Ealing, Benjamin Tupholme
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy Alice Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy Alice Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy Alice Bonewart

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

Sutterton, Saint Mary Church, monument, Effigy Alice Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy Geoffrey Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy Geoffrey Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy Geoffrey Bonewart

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

Sutterton, Saint Mary Church, monument, Effigy Geoffrey Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy John Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy John Bonewart
Sutterton, St Mary, Effigy John Bonewart

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

Sutterton, Saint Mary Church, Effigy John Bonewart
Swaby, St Nicholas, Cholmeley Memorial
Swaby, St Nicholas, Cholmeley Memorial
Swaby, St Nicholas, Cholmeley Memorial

A decorative and charming memorial to a former priest. His daughter was the painter of the portrait in the vestry.

Jean Howard, 17 March 2021

Swaby, Saint Nicholas church, image, James Cholmeley
Swarby, St Mary & All Saints, statue
Swarby, St Mary & All Saints, statue
Swarby, St Mary & All Saints, statue

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

Swarby, St Mary & All Saints, statue of Christ
Swaton, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, Chancel, Monument

Memorial to the Revd Thomas Darby d.1840 a former vicar.

DB 20 June 2022

Swaton, Saint Michael church, image, Thomas Darby
Swaton, St Michael, North Aisle, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, North Aisle, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, North Aisle, Monument

"Early C14 effigy of a lady in the north aisle, she is clad in a wimple with tightly buttoned sleeves, hands clasped in prayer and the feet resting on a dog"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061820?section=official-list-entry 

"For years her identity was in doubt, but local research has established that she was Nichola de la Haye, wife of Gerald de Camville, who was lord of the Manor at Swaton early in the 13th century.  Her father, and later her husband, were both constables at Lincoln Castle, and when Gerald died in 1214 Nicholaa kept the guardianship of the castle and defended it for King John (c.1167-1216).  She met the King in 1216, retired in 1226 and died in her sixties in 1230"

https://www.heckingtonandhelpringhamgroup.org.uk/swatonstmichael.htm 

DB 20 June 2022

Swaton, Saint Michael church, image, Nicholaa de la Haye
Swaton, St Michael, South Aisle, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, South Aisle, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, South Aisle, Monument

"In the south aisle is an ashlar plaque to John Billings, d.1773, in the form of a scrolled oval panel with cherub"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061820?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 June 2022

Swaton, Saint Michael church, image
Swaton, St Michael, South Aisle, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, South Aisle, Monument
Swaton, St Michael, South Aisle, Monument

"A white marble tablet to John West, gentleman, d.1853, in the form of a plain pedimented obelisk"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061820?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 June 2022

Swaton, Saint Michael church, image, John West
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

Arthur Hildebrand Alington

http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Arthur_Hildebrand_Alington

and his son Argentine Hugh Alington who is said to have witnessed the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow.

http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Argentine_Hugh_Alington

This Jean Howard was a wartime intelligence officer.   Seeing her name on a memorial was a surreal experience for the photographer!

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, Arthur Hugh Alington, Argentine Hugh Alington, Jean Howard
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

Hackfath memorial.

A charming and personal memorial to a soldier who died in WWI.  The copper plaque reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ WALTER HACKFATH/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-19/ REST ETERNAL GRANT/ HIM O LORD

Recessed into the wooden cross above this is the individual memorial plaque, a "Dead Man's Penny", which was issued to Hackfath's family.

Walter was born at Tealby and was living in North Thoresby when he enlisted at Grimsby into the 2nd/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters.  He was killed in action on the 21st March 1918, and having no known grave is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

https://www.forces.net/services/tri-service/story-dead-mans-penny

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, Hackfath memorial
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

This monument is erected to the north of the altar and tells a tragic story.  It says:

SACRED TO FRANCES SECOND DAUGHTER OF/ REV'D MARMADUKE AND ANN ALINGTON OF THIS PLACE,/ AND TO THE REV'D HENRY ALINGTON B.A./ OF TWYWELL IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE,/ HER BELOVED AND BETROTHED COUSIN,/ WHO SHE SURVIVED 19 MONTHS. HER HEALTH SUNK UNDER THE EFFORTS/ MADE BY HER PIOUS AND AFFECTIONATE MIND,/ TO BEAR AND CONCEAL THE ANGUISH OF A BROKEN HEART,/ AND TO SUBMIT WITH CHEERFULNESS TO THE WILL OF HER CREATOR./ SHE DIED APRIL 28TH 1828 AGED 28./ THIS MEMORIAL OF THEIR VIRTUES AND SORROWS,/ IS ERECTED BY HER DEEPLY AFFLICTED BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

The inscribed tablet is surmounted by a weeping cherub extinguishing a torch.  It is signed E Gaffin, Edward Gaffin of Regent St.

http://www.speel.me.uk/sculpt/gaffin.htm

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, monument, Alington
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

Revd Marmaduke Alington 1760-1840, whose hatchment hangs above the door, and his wife Ann nee Emeris

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Alington-99

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

The upper of these two monuments is a handsome composition of black marble plaque on white backplate with a segmental head and a black pillar on either side. The text is in gold and reads:

IN THIS CHURCHYARD REST THE BODIES OF/ GEORGE MARMADUKE ALINGTON ESQ./ OF SWINHOPE, JP AND DL WHO DIED/ 18TH OF FEBRUARY, 1890, AGED 92./ AND OF MARY, HIS WIFE, THIRD DAUGHTER/ OF MATTHEW BANCROFT LISTER, ESQ./ OF BURWELL PARK, IN THIS COUNTY./ SHE DIED 9TH OF MAY, 1877, AGED 72/ THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED IN LOVING/ MEMORY BY THEIR GRATEFUL CHILDREN.

The lower plaque is for their youngest son, Frederick William Alington who lived from 27 July 1845 - 28 June 1915

Several members of the numerous Alington family are mentioned in the following article:

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=945405&iid=20395

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

One of numerous wall tablets for the Alington family, this one commemorates Cyril Geoffrey Marmaduke Alington, 19 August 1914 to 6 August 1987; and his wife Helen Amabel nee Westmacott, 28 February 1924 to 27 February 2006.

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

Richard H S Knott was born in Grimsby on 20 January 1929 to Eric Allen Holdsworth Knott and his wife Maud, nee Rowntree.   He died at Mansfield on 7 February 1943 at the age of 14.  He is buried with his Rowntree grandparents in the Quaker Burial Ground, The Retreat, York.

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

To the south of the altar, this monument depicts almsgiving, the two women to the right having a basket from which a gift is being handed to the group on the left.  The tablet is signed is T. Gaffin, SC. 63 Regent St London.   The person commemorated was the mother of "Claribel" the popular Victorian ballad writer.  It reads:

IN MEMORY OF/ CHARLOTTE MARY/ THE AFFECTIONATE WIFE OF HENRY PYE/ OF LOUTH IN THIS COUNTY ESQUIRE/ WHO DIED 29 DECEMBER 1847/ AETATE 42/ WHOSE REMAINS WITH THOSE OF HER TWO INFANT CHILDREN/ WHO DIED RESPECTIVELY ON THE 11TH AUGUST 1827/ AND 28TH NOVEMBER 1828/ ARE DEPOSITED AT THE EAST END OF THIS CHURCH/ "HE THAT HATH PITY UPON THE POOR LENDETH UNTO THE LORD/ AND THAT WHICH HE HATH GIVEN WILL HE PAY HIM AGAIN" / PROVERBS XIX.17

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image, monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

M. S./ Jonathan Field. Armigeri./ Hic in lucem primum susceptus/ A. D. MDCCXXVII/ Cum apud externos vita functus efset/ A. D. MDCCCXI/ Hue inter Majorum ofsa/ Ofsa ejus retulerunt amici

It would seem this means that Jonathan first received the light, that is, was born in 1727 and ended his days in foreign lands in 1811. Here were buried his larger bones as he told his friends.  

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument
Swinhope, St Helen, Monument

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/24970

The bottom of these three tablets reads:

Here repose the ashes of/ Charlotte Mary/ Wife of/ Admiral Arthur Hildebrand Alington/ of Swinhope/ and younger daughter of/ The Revd Charles Moore/ of Garlenick, Cornwall/ She departed in peace on 10th Dec 1913/ Aged 71 years

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Swinhope, Saint Helen Church, image
Swinstead, St Mary, monument
Swinstead, St Mary, monument
Swinstead, St Mary, monument

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

March 2017

Swinstead, St Mary, effigy, monument
Swinstead, St Mary, monument
Swinstead, St Mary, monument
Swinstead, St Mary, monument

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

Swinstead, St Mary, monument, Priscilla Bertie, James Forsyth
Swinstead, St Mary, monument
Swinstead, St Mary, monument
Swinstead, St Mary, monument

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

March 2017

Swinstead, St Mary, monument, Duke of Ancaster, Richard Westmacott
Tathwell, St Vedast, Monument
Tathwell, St Vedast, Monument
Tathwell, St Vedast, Monument

"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

Tathwell, Saint Vedast, Church, Thomas Chaplin, monument
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Missing Memorial Brass
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Missing Memorial Brass
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Missing Memorial Brass

Outline of a missing memorial brass - preserved in a stone near the chancel pulpit.

Six memorial brass still remain however the church booklet states "There were originally 22 in the church but the rest were stolen/sold or just vandalised".

DB 28 October 2021

Tattershall Holy Trinity Church Image brass
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Nave, Tom Thumb Grave
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Nave, Tom Thumb Grave
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Nave, Tom Thumb Grave

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

Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Tom Thumb, grave
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept

Brass in remembrance of "Hugh, third Earl Fortescue" who was lord of the manor and a major local landowner.

"Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue DL (4 April 1818 - 10 October 1905), known as Viscount Ebrington from 1841 to 1861, was a British peer and occasional Liberal Party politician"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Fortescue,_3rd_Earl_Fortescue 

DB 4 November 2021

Tattershall Holy Trinity Church Image Hugh Fortescue 3rd Earl Fortescue
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept, Brass Rubbing
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept, Brass Rubbing
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept, Brass Rubbing

One of several brass rubbings displayed in the north transept. This of "Maud, Lady Willoughby, dec. 1497 Brass engraved circa. 1470".

DB 26 February 2022

Tattershall Holy Trinity Church Image brass rubbing
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept, William Wright Ledger
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept, William Wright Ledger
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, North Transept, William Wright Ledger

A ledger stone at the east end of the north aisle. 

"Here lie the Remains of William Wright late Apothecary & Surgeon of this Place who For his generous & hospitable Temper his constant Sobriety uncommon Knowledge not only in his Profession but in almost everything Useful (acquired only by ye Strength of his natural Parts & unwearied Industry) was in his Life beloved in his Death lamented universally He died in ye year of his Age 44 our Lord 1735"

DB 21 October 2021

Tattershall Holy Trinity Church Image William Wright Ledger
Tealby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Tealby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Tealby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

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

Tealby, All Saints, church, Edwin Tennyson d'Eyncourt
Tealby, All Saints, South Aisle, Brass Plaque
Tealby, All Saints, South Aisle, Brass Plaque
Tealby, All Saints, South Aisle, Brass Plaque

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

Tealby, All Saints, church, brass plaque
Temple Bruer, St John, East Window
Temple Bruer, St John, East Window
Temple Bruer, St John, East Window

"In memory of the Lady Florence Chaplin who died on the day of the Consecration of this Church 10. Oct. 1881"

"THE ABOVE MEMORIAL PLATE IS CONCERNED WITH THE EAST CENTRAL STAINED GLASS WINDOW AND WAS REMOVED FROM THE BASE OF THE WINDOW WHEN THE REREDOS WAS ERECTED" 

Henry Chaplin of Blankney Hall was owner of all the land in Temple Bruer and St John's Church was erected in 1873 at his expense "In 1876 Chaplin married Lady Florence, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, who had survived the Wigan rail crash of 1873. They had one son, Eric, and two daughters, Edith and Florence. Lady Florence died in childbirth in 1881, giving birth to her youngest daughter, Florence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chaplin,_1st_Viscount_Chaplin 

DB 28 August 2022

Temple Bruer, Saint John, image, Lady Florence Chaplin
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial

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

Tetford, Saint Mary, Church, memorial, Rev. John Dymoke
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"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

Tetford, Saint Mary, Church, Charles Thorpe, monument
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Tetford, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"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

Tetford, Saint Mary, Church, monument, John Emeris
Tetford, St Mary, Nave, Memorial
Tetford, St Mary, Nave, Memorial
Tetford, St Mary, Nave, Memorial

"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

Tetford, Saint Mary, Church, Edward Dymoke, memorial, armour
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, Coffins
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, Coffins
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, Coffins

Kelly's Directory 1930, referring to the C19 restoration by James Fowler, reports that :-

"during the rebuilding several stone coffins with floriated crosses were exhumed; these are now at the west ends of the north and south aisles"

DB 20 July 2023

Thoresway, Saint Mary Church, image
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, Memorial
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, Memorial
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, Memorial

"IN ME MEMORY OF EDWARD COVE, FORTY FIVE YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED MARCH 17 1875 AGED 73 YEARS"

DB 20 July 2023

Thoresway, Saint Mary Church, image, memorial, EDWARD COVE
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, War Memorial
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, War Memorial
Thoresway, St Mary, North Aisle, War Memorial

First World War memorial unveiled 1923.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54396 

DB 20 July 2023

Thoresway, Saint Mary Church, image, war memorial
Thoresway, St Mary, South Aisle, Memorial
Thoresway, St Mary, South Aisle, Memorial
Thoresway, St Mary, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN THIS CHANCEL LIE THE REMAINS OF THE REVD. EDWARD COVE VICAR OF BRIMPTON IN THE COUNTY OF BERKS WHO DIED FEBY. 20TH 1840 AGED 64 YEARS"

DB 20 July 2023

Thoresway, Saint Mary Church, image, Memorial EDWARD COVE
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

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

Threekingham, St Peter church, memorial, Lambert de Threekingham
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

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

Threekingham, St Peter, church, memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Monuments
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Monuments
Threekingham, St Peter, Nave, Monuments

"At the west end of the nave are 2 large redundant figures of a knight and his lady; apparently Sir Lambert de Trikyngham, d. 1280, and his wife. He is clad in chain mail and surcoat with shield and feet resting on a lion, she in a flowing gown, feet resting on a hound"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1306911?section=official-list-entry 

The Church Guide states that these effigies "lay where the organ currently stands, within the Trikingham chantry chapel, but were moved to their present position in 1860".

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image, Sir Lambert de Trikyngham
Threekingham, St Peter, North Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, North Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, North Aisle, Memorial

"On the east wall of the north aisle is a marble wall monument to William Fysher, d. 1674; fluted Doric pilasters with roses in the necking support a triglyph frieze and escutcheon flanked by urns"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1306911?section=official-list-entry 

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image, William Fysher
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Ledger Slabs
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Ledger Slabs
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Ledger Slabs

"Near the south door are 3 C14 tapering ledger slabs, one with a cross fleury"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1306911?section=official-list-entry 

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF JOHN QUINCEY, ESQRE. SURGEON TO HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES. ELDEST SON OF JEREMIAH QUINCEY MANY YEARS OF STOW IN THIS PARISH WHO DIED IN LONDON THE 3D.OCTOBER 1827, AGED 38 YEARS. HIS REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED IN THE CHURCH OF ST. GREGORY BY ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL"

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image, JOHN QUINCEY
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

"In Memory of John Cragg, of Threekingham, Who Died November 27# 1832, Aged 71 Years. Also In Memory of Ann Cragg, His Wife Who Died November 25th 1850, Aged 84 Years,"

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

The inscription seems to read :- 

"Hic seputlus est JOH'S CRAGG Filius superdictij OB, JAN; 19; 1789 aet 54"

Google translate renders this as "Here is buried JOH'S CRAGG, son of the superdicted OB, JAN; 19; 1789 at the age of 54"

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

"SACRED to the Memory of MARY, the Wife of JEREMIAH QUINCEY, who died the 12th. of April 1797 aged 36 Years.

Also, of JEREMIAH their Son, who died the 19th. of Septr.1791 aged 10 Months.

Also, of JEREMIAH QUINCEY, who died the 1st. of January 1829. In the 85th. Year of his Age.

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

At the east end of the south aisle.

"Near this Place lie Interred the Body of JOHN WARREN who departed this Life the 4th of April 1806. Aged 77 Years."

And 

"IN MEMORIAM JOHN WARREN CRAGG CAPTAIN STAMFORD LOCAL MILITIA BURIED AT LITTLEHAM EXMOUTH FEB 12. 1812 AGED 24 YEARS. "

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image, JOHN WARREN CRAGG
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

"In the south aisle is a small slate wall monument to Edward Dawson, d. 1787, a wreathed patera and swagged urn on a rectangular panel with rounded ends by Casswell, Sculptor"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1306911?section=official-list-entry 

" "TO THE MEMORY OF MR EDWD. DAWSON Who departed this Life April the 4th 1787 Aged LVIII Years ALSO to the Memory of ELEANOR the Wife of the Late EDWD. DAWSON Who Died Decr. 24th, 1807 Aged 75 Years.

Casswell Sculpt"

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image, Edward Dawson, Casswell
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, War Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, War Memorial
Threekingham, St Peter, South Aisle, War Memorial

Above the altar at the east end of the south aisle. 

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT NOEL HENRY CRAGG,R.N. WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON SEPT, 20TH 1915, AGED 22 YEARS, BY SHELL FIRE AT NIEUPORT, BELGIUM, WHILE IN CHARGE OF A NAVAL GUN AND WAS BURIED AT DUNKIRK. WHEN SERVING ON H.M.S.KING EDWARD VII HE WAS PUBLICLY THANKED BY ADMIRAL SIR LEWIS, BAYLEY AND NOTED BY THE ADMIRALTY FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA. AS SUB-LIEUT ON H M.S. HIND.T.B.D.HE TOOK PART IN THE BATTLE OF HELIGOLAND BIGHT AND THE CUXHAVEN RAID, HE WAS MENTIONED IN SIR JOHN FRENCH'S DESPATCHES FOR GALLANT AND DISTINGUISHED: CONDUCT IN THE FIELD.

ALSO TO THE FOND MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT JOHN FRANCIS CRAGG, 8TH BATT. LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE OF FRICOURT ON JULY 1ST 1916. AGED 28 YEARS. HE WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF LOOS ON SEPT. 25TH 1915.AND AGAIN BY SHELL FIRE IN MARCH 1916, WHILE SERVING IN THE TRENCHES

DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI."

DB 16 September 2023

Threekingham, Saint Peter church, image, war memorial, LIEUTENANT NOEL HENRY CRAGG
Ulceby with Fordington, All Saints, war memorial
Ulceby with Fordington, All Saints, war memorial
Ulceby with Fordington, All Saints, war memorial

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

Ulceby with Fordington, All Saints, was memorial
Utterby, St Andrew, North Aisle, grave slab
Utterby, St Andrew, North Aisle, grave slab
Utterby, St Andrew, North Aisle, grave slab

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

Utterby, St Andrew, grave slab, Gilbert de Cumberworth, ledger stone
Utterby, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Utterby, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Utterby, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument

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

Utterby, Saint Andrew, church, Honourable East India Company,
Waddingworth, St Margaret, Grave Slab
Waddingworth, St Margaret, Grave Slab
Waddingworth, St Margaret, Grave Slab

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

Waddingworth, St Margaret, Dymoke, King's Champion
Waddingworth, St Margaret, Grave Slab
Waddingworth, St Margaret, Grave Slab
Waddingworth, St Margaret, Grave Slab

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

August 2011

Waddingworth, St Margaret, Dymoke, King's Champion
Waithe, St Martin, Roll of Honour
Waithe, St Martin, Roll of Honour
Waithe, St Martin, Roll of Honour

The Roll of Honour lists ten names from four families. There being no cross next to any of the names it must be assumed that all returned safely. The calligraphy appears most professional and it may have been printed since, at the bottom edge, it reads ‘Richardsons, Printers, Illuminators, Grimsby’.

Jean Howard 3 February 2024

Waithe, Saint Martin Church, roll of honour
Walcott, St Oswald, Nave, Catley Abbey Monument
Walcott, St Oswald, Nave, Catley Abbey Monument
Walcott, St Oswald, Nave, Catley Abbey Monument

"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

Walcott, Saint Oswald, Church, Catley Abbey
Walesby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Walesby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Walesby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

"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

Walesby, All Saints, Church, monument, Mary Davenport
Waltham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Waltham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Waltham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial

"DEO GRATIAS 

WE praise Thee: we bless Thee: we worship Thee: we give thanks to Thee for those who from this Parish of WALTHAM gave their lives for home & country in the GREAT WAR of 1914-1918"

DB 10 December 2023

Waltham, All Saints Church, image, war memorial
Waltham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial
Waltham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial
Waltham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EMMA GEORGIANA THE YOUNGEST AND BELOVED CHILD OF JOHN SAUNDERSON AND ANNE BEATNIFFE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 5TH 1835 AGED SIX YEARS

ALSO OF LUCY JANE THE BELOVED WIFE OF MESHACH RICHARDS AND ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE JOHN SAUNDERSON AND ANNE BEATNIFFE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 23RD 1830 AGED 25 YEARS

ALSO OF THE ABOVE MESHACH RICHARDS WHO DIED JANUARY 25TH 1844 AGED 37 YEARS AND OF ANNE THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE JOHN SAUNDERSON BEATNIFFE WHO DIED DECR 11TH 1846 AGED 59 YEARS

ALSO OF THE ABOVE JOHN SAUNDERSON BEATNIFFE WHO DIED JUNE 15TH 1864 AGED 78 YEARS"

DB 10 December 2023

Waltham, All Saints Church, image, monument
Waltham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial
Waltham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial
Waltham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF ELIZABETH, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE THOMAS THOMPSON, OF THIS PARISH, AND THE BELOVED WIFE OF GEORGE WHELPTON, OF ALBERT ROAD, REGENT'S PARK, LONDON; WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECR 11TH 1859, IN THE 59TH YEAR OF HER AGE. HER END WAS PEACE"

DB 10 December 2023

Waltham, All Saints Church, image, monument
Welbourn, Saint Chad, Sir William Robertson, Memorial
Welbourn, Saint Chad, Sir William Robertson, Memorial
Welbourn, Saint Chad, Sir William Robertson, Memorial

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

Welbourn, Sir William Robertson
Welby, St Bartholomew, grave cover
Welby, St Bartholomew, grave cover
Welby, St Bartholomew, grave cover

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

April 2016

Welby, St Bartholomew, grave cover
Wellingore, All Saints, Tomb Chest
Wellingore, All Saints, Tomb Chest
Wellingore, All Saints, Tomb Chest

"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

Wellingore, All Saints, church, Richard de Buslingthorpe, tomb chest
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND EDWARD WALLS, B.C.L. OF BOOTHBY IN THIS PARISH, RECTOR OF WILLOUGHBY AND OF FIRSBY, AND PREBENDARY OF SUTTON IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF LINCOLN; AND OF MARY HIS WIFE, ONLY DAUGHTER OF THOMAS BOOTH. GENT. OF WAINFLEET ST MARY'S: ALSO OF THEIR ELDEST SON, RICHARD WALLS, OF TRIN. COLL. CAM. AND OF ELIZABETH, THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER, WIFE OF A. BELLINGHAM, ESQRE AFTERWARDS SIR ALAN BELLINGHAM. BART ... "

DB 6 July 2022

Welton le Marsh, Saint Martin Church, image, monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument

"TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF MARY. ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE REVD EDWARD AND MARY WALLS, OF BOOTHBY HALL, IN THIS COUNTY, AND IN ADMIRATION OF HER PURE AND UNSELFISH LIFE THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY HER ONLY SURVIVING SISTER. SHE DIED AT SPILSBY, JULY 9TH 1851, AGED 76 YEARS"

DB 6 July 2022

Welton le Marsh, Saint Martin Church, image, monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Chancel, Monument

Memorial to Joseph Nixon Crosthwaite d.1951 a former vicar.

A similar memorial to Mabel Eveline Crosthwaite his wife d.1966 mentions that she was organist of Welton and Gunby Churches for over forty years.

DB 6 July 2022

Welton le Marsh, Saint Martin Church, image, monument, Crosthwaite
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument

One of a group of Walls family memorials near the pulpit. 

"TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF MARY ELIZBETH ALICE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF RICHD & ANNIE WALLS OF BOOTHBY HALL WHO DIED JULY 25TH 1877 AGED I9"

DB 6 July 2022

Welton le Marsh, Saint Martin Church, image, walls
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument

"TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF THE REVD JOSEPH WALLS, M. A. OF BOOTHBY HALL, FOR 39 YEARS PERPETUAL CURATE OF THIS PARISH. DIED JANUARY 1ST 1857, AGED 77 YEARS ...

ALSO OF ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE DIED FEBRUARY 19TH 1857. AGED 74 YEARS. AFTER MANY YEARS OF PATIENT SUFFERING. 

ALSO IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH. THEIR ELDEST SON. DIED NOVR, 22ND 1857. AGED 47 YEARS"

DB 6 July 2022

Welton le Marsh, Saint Martin Church, image, JOSEPH WALLS
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument
Welton le Marsh, St Martin, Nave, Monument

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF RICHARD GEORGE WALLS M.A. OF BOOTHBY HALL RECTOR OF FIRSBY AND VICAR OF GREAT STEEPING BORN MARCH 17TH 1818 DIED NOVEMBER 5TH 1893 AND OF ANNIE HIS WIFE BORN MAY 14TH 1830 DIED MAY 28TH 1882 THEIR BODIES REST IN THIS CHURCHYARD THIS TABLET WAS PLACED HERE BY THEIR CHILDREN"

In White's Directory 1872 it is reported that "Baroness Willoughby de Eresby is lady of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to the Rev. R. G. Walls, M.A., who resides at Boothby Hall, a large and pleasantly situated mansion, and C. L. Massingberd, Esq."

DB 6 July 2022

Welton le Marsh, Saint Martin Church, image, monument, RICHARD GEORGE WALLS
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Asterby)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Asterby)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Asterby)
This ledger slab is positioned in the centre of the chancel at the sanctuary step. It dates from 1420 and commemorates a rector, Sir Thomas Asterby.
 
The marginal inscription would once have been in black. It begins in the centre at the top (actually the right-hand edge as shown) and reads:
 
Hic iacet / d(omi)n(u)s Thomas Asterby q...d.m rector eccl(esi)e de Welton iuxta / ludam [Louth] qui obiit / die / mensis / anno d(omi)ni M CCCC xx cuius anime p(ro)picietur / deus Amen.  


Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

Welton le Wold, Saint Martin Church, Asterby Ledger
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Dyon)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Dyon)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Dyon)

This small brass is mounted in a slab of brown stone on the east wall of the north aisle. Its identity is unclear and its existence seems to have escaped the notice of any recorders of the church.

The wording reads as follows:

Hic jacet corpus / Johis Dyon Armigi

which translates as 'Here lies the body of John Dyon Esquire 

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

Welton le Wold, Saint Martin Church, brass, John Dyon
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Hughes)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Hughes)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Hughes)

This small brass plaque betrays a story of tragedy when the Rector's only child died as a result of a riding accident. It reads:
 
In Memory of/ EDMUND LAWSON/ HUGHES/ only Child of the Revd Edm W Hughes/ Rector of the Parish/ who was suddenly called from this life/ vi Nov mdcccxlviii/ aged xi years In accordance with whose wishes/ and in consequence of whose/ death, this church was rebuilt/ and enlarged/ Anno Domini mdcccxlix.
 
Around the edge it says "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

Welton le Wold, Saint Martin Church, plaque, Edmund Lawson Hughes
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Smith)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Smith)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Smith)

This beautifully shaped and finely cut wall monument reads:
 
This church was redecorated in memory of PHYLLIS MARY SMITH LRAM ARCM Medallist Royal Academy of Music 6 October 1905 19 December 1963.
 
The letters stand for Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music and Associate of the Royal College of Music: the top of the decoration includes a lute and crossed horns.

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

Welton le Wold, Saint Martin Church, Phyllis Mary Smith
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Vessey)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Vessey)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Vessey)

This delightful wall tablet in the form of a rolled scroll commemorates farmer John Henry Vessey JP, who built Welton Manor. He died in September 1887 at the age of 59 and his mortal remains were interred at Halton Holegate where he was born.
 
The monument is signed CUSWORTH, PENTONVILLE RD.  https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=ann_1291656065 

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

Welton le Wold, Saint Martin Church, Vessey, Cusworth
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Windle)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Windle)
Welton le Wold, St Martin, Memorial (Windle)

This brass plaque on the south wall of the chancel leaves one saddened by the losses of the Revd William H Windle: his eldest and accomplished son killed at Loos in 1915 and his wife dying five years later.
 
Michael Windle attended Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon where he is remembered on their memorial -
 
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4827544
 
As is inscribed on the plaque, Michael attended Exeter College, Oxford, where he was a friend of Tolkien -
 
https://johngarth.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/tolkiens-immortal-four-meet-for-the-last-time/ 

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

Welton le Wold, Saint Martin Church, William H Windle plaque, Michael Windle
West Ashby, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial (Bombardment of Algiers)
West Ashby, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial (Bombardment of Algiers)
West Ashby, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial (Bombardment of Algiers)

"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

West Ashby, All Saints, Bombardment of Algiers, RICHARD CALTHROP
West Ashby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
West Ashby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
West Ashby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

"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

West Ashby, All Saints, church
West Deeping, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
West Deeping, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
West Deeping, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument

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

West Deeping, Saint Andrew, Church, Richard Figg
Whaplode, St Mary, Monument (Irby)
Whaplode, St Mary, Monument (Irby)
Whaplode, St Mary, Monument (Irby)

The large, canopied tomb to Sir Anthony and Elizabeth Irby has painted recumbent effigies and is surrounded by a wrought iron railing.

August 2010

Whaplode, St Mary, Sir Anthony Irby, Elizabeth Irby, memorial
Wickenby, St Peter  & St Lawrence, South Aisle, Monument
Wickenby, St Peter  & St Lawrence, South Aisle, Monument
Wickenby, St Peter  & St Lawrence, South Aisle, Monument

"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

Wickenby, St Peter & St Lawrence, Church
Willingham by Stow, St Helen, Tower, Monument
Willingham by Stow, St Helen, Tower, Monument
Willingham by Stow, St Helen, Tower, Monument

Monument to Robert Wells died 1807 and his wife Susannah died 1796.

DB 15 May 2022

Willingham by Stow, Saint Helen Church, image, monument, Thomas Wells
Willoughby, St Helen, window
Willoughby, St Helen, window
Willoughby, St Helen, window

Memorial plaque to John Smith.

Mark Acton, August 2013

Willoughby, St Helen church, John Smith memorial plaque
Winteringham, All Saints, monument
Winteringham, All Saints, monument
Winteringham, All Saints, monument

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

There two angels by his pillow.

April 2015

Winteringham, All Saints church
Wold Newton, All Saints, War Memorial
Wold Newton, All Saints, War Memorial
Wold Newton, All Saints, War Memorial

Commemorating casualties from WW1 1914-1918 and the Boer War 1900. For further information see :-

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/63748 

DB 3 September 2023

Wold Newton, All Saints Church, war memorial