The Stamford Canal was constructed in the late seventeenth century to provide a navigable waterway to Deeping St James and thence by existing main drains to Boston and the sea.

Some sections of its course, as here, alongside the main street (B1525) in Deeping St James, were created by making the parallel River Welland navigable; elsewhere a separate channel was dug.

This fine stone pack horse bridge, which straddles the Welland/canal dates from 1651.

The C15 cross was converted into a lock-up in 1819. It is now listed Grade I.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck  

The tower and spire of St James' date from c1730. The architect may have been George Portwood, who did work in similar style in the locality.

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Externally, the large 15th century windows might suggest a church that is Perpendicular throughout.

However, St James' was once part of a medieval Priory, and the interior has an impressive late 12th century arcade, described by Pevsner as "astounding".

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Norman scallop capital on pier in the south arcade.

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Late Norman scallop capital on pier in south arcade.

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Door handle and decorated metal plate on south door.

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Deeping St James, lying 1 mile east of Market Deeping, was built around a twelfth-century Benedictine Abbey destroyed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The village has an eighteenth-century lock-up built on the site and with the materials of a medieval wayside cross.

A railway station opened in 1848 and closed in 1964.

postcard mailed in 1911

The large circular tub font is early 12th century, and is decorated with blank arcading.

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Above the nave arcade is a 13th century triforium of 13 pointed arches - with the lancets of the clerestory behind.

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The gabled south porch dates from the early 13th century. Above is an 18th century sundial.

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The tithe barn, possibly dating from the fifteenth century, was demolished in 1963. It was located on the south-east side of the churchyard.

Photograph, 1963

The interior of the tithe barn showing the crude timber roof. Its overall dimensions (external) were 90ft x 20ft 6ins.

photograph, 1963

This was the home of the Waterton family. The house was demolished in the 1960s.

undated postcard