Pump and shelter located on Water Lane.

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The letter "L" appears above the spout while below the date appears to read "1860".

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A double surprise to find this remote and endearing church still in use and open for visitors.

St Peter's in Lusby has a greenstone nave and chancel with a bellcote replacing a vanished tower.

The blocked north and south doorways are Norman and there are Anglo-Saxon features inside.

Sheep graze contentedly in the churchyard. Well worth the visit.

Mark Acton, 2014

The view of St Peter's from the south clearly shows the blocked south doorway of Norman origin.

July 2015

Restoration of St Peter's has retained the thirteenth century lancet window in the chancel.

July 2015

Looking towards the sanctuary and 3 light C19 east window.

White's Directory 1872 reads :-

"The Church (St. Peter) is a small structure, consisting of nave, chancel and turret, and containing accommodation for 83 hearers.

The benefice is a discharged rectory, valued in K.B. £8. 14s. and now at £250 per annum, inclusive of Asgarby vicarage, consolidated with it in 1865, in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln, and the incumbency of the Rev. B. D. Bogie, who has 117A. 3R. 16P. of land in lieu of tithes, and resides at Hundleby"

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Looking west towards the chancel arch, C15 chancel screen and nave beyond.

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"Chancel arch, originally Cll, with pairs of engaged half round shafts or pilaster strips with hacked back capitals"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

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"C15 3 light chancel screen, with cusped ogee arches and Perpendicular tracery"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

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Aumbry to north side of chancel. 

"In the chancel are single rectangular aumbries to each side"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

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A closer view of the sanctuary with a tomb recess visible on the right. 

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"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRIVATE JT ELSEY CANADIANS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE MAY 4TH 1917 AGED 35 YEARS

PRIVATE FRED ELSEY EAST YORKSHIRE REGT KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE NOV 1917 AGED 31 YEARS

PRIVATE FRANK ELSEY 10TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGT DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE APRIL 17TH 1918 AGED 23 YEARS

SONS OF JOHN ROBERT & MARY ANN ELSEY

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE TO GALLANT AND BELOVED SONS AND BROTHERS"

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"Cll keyhole window with ashlar head and reveals, around the head a curled grooved motif with cross"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

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South chancel wall showing two of the window openings "a C13 lancet, and a rectangular low side window". A single rectangular aumbry also visible.

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First & Second World War Memorial first unveiled 22 February 1920. Made by Messrs E Browning and Son of Spilsby.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48811 

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"C19 round tub font with crossed quatrefoils"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

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On the left & right of the chancel arch can be seen the stumps of pairs of semi-circular Anglo-Saxon shafts.

The screen is Perpendicular.

Mark Acton, 2014

Looking east towards the chancel arch and chancel. 

An entry in Kelly's Directory 1930 reads :-

"The church of St. Peter is a small building of stone in the Norman style, with later insertions, consisting of chancel, nave and a turret containing one bell:

the north and south doorways are blocked up ; the former is enriched with the chevron ornament:

in the north wall of the chancel is a curious little key-hole light, and in the south wall a low side window:

the interior retains a Perpendicular screen, and there is a brass, c. 1600, with eight English rhyming lines, in the form of an address to a deceased wife by her surviving husband:

the church was restored in 1892 and affords 80 sittings.

In the churchyard is a memorial of Portland stone, erected in 1920, to the men of Lusby who served in the Great War, 1914-18"

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Looking west towards the C19 western doorway and narthex beyond.

"At the west end of the nave the rear arches of the blocked side doors are visible, showing that the nave has been shortened"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

C19 pews. 

DB 4 September 2022

"In the southern window east reveal is a C14 recut king's head"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

Pevsner has "A fine small C13 king's head (s window reveal)

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Blocked north doorway.

"C12 north doorway with chevron moulded hood and label having one beast head stop"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry

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C19 pulpit (?)

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Pevsner comments "In the nave N wall an exposed recess with at its foot on the r. a small Norman volute capital"

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"Cll blocked south doorway retains single monolithic long and short jamb, reset ashlar head, above which is a stone bearing a raised flaring arm cross"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166335?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 September 2022

This small carved stone cross is set over the blocked south doorway, which dates from the Norman period.

July 2015

St Peter's has an unusual porch in Tudor style with stone and in-filled timber framing.

July 2015

Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel now Chapel Cottage.

A LIST AND BRIEF DETAILS OF CHAPELS IN THE SPILSBY CIRCUIT PAST AND PRESENT prepared by COLIN SHEPHERDSON and KEITH GUYLER revised August 1988 states that :-

"A house was registered for worship in 1799 and a chapel erected in 1819. The chapel in Main Street, was enlarged in 1842. The last regular service was held on the 14.8.1994 and the chapel closed in 1996 when the membership was 4. It is currently sanding unused" 

DB 4 September 2022

A plaque above the main entrance reads "REBUILT & ENLARGED 1842 The ground belonging to the Trustees of these Premises, extends thirty six feet Eastward: from the Centre of this Stone"

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