"The Green Man" public house has recently changed names and was previously known as "St Vincent Arms". Viscount St. Vincent was lord of the manor.

The 25 inch Ordnance Survey map published in 1905 gives the name as "Fox & Hounds".

Further back Kelly's 1876 Directory of Lincolnshire has it as "The Sportsman".

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St Peter's church in Norton Disney has much work from the Early English and Decorated periods.

The font & screen are Perpendicular, the communion rail seventeenth-century.

Worth visiting even without the tenuous connection to the creator of Mickey Mouse.

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An interesting church with some unusual features, one of which is the pair of straight-headed windows, one above the other, in the south transept - almost in domestic style.

The church was extensively restored in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

October 2016

The tower of St Peter's church dates from the Early English period but the bell openings, battlements, gargoyles and pinnacles were added a little later.

October 2016

Sanctuary rails are of Jacobean design and may be the original "Laudian" rails.

Poppyhead bench ends on the chancel pews.

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The church's parish chest - a small and crude, iron-bound with a complex lock but constructed in soft-wood.

October 2016

Late-fourteenth century corbel left of the south transept east window.

October 2016

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

Church walk around guide states :-

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

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

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

Monumental Brass Society has an excellent description.

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

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Fragments of original medieval glass in the Disney Chantry (now used as the vestry).

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Funerary hatchment hanging in the Disney Chantry.

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Main East Window with stained glass by James Powell and Sons (also known as Whitefriars Glass).

"ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF J.E.L.JERVIS VISCOUNT ST VINCENT WHO DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED AT THE BATTLE OF AB0U KLEA IN THE SUDAN 22ND JANY 1885 BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS OF THE 7TH HUSSARS"

"the fourth viscount, was part of the force that was sent in 1884 to rescue General Gordon at Khartoum"

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

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The font at St Peter's dates from the Perpendicular period. It has lozenge shaped panels with shields.

October 2016

The north arcade (to the left) has two bays; the piers are circular with cruciform, chamfered abaci and double chamfered arches.

The arch into the south transept (to the right) is four-centred.

The chancel screen dates from the Perpendicular period. On the south (right) side of the chancel arch is a blocked doorway to the rood stair.

October 2016

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

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

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

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First World War memorial.

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

October 2016

Polish memorial plaques in the south chapel. 

"Sacred to the memory of

THE MEN OF 300 & 301 POLISH

SQUADRONS OF THE R.A.F.

operating from Swinderby, who gave

their lives for freedom 1939 - 1945

ZA NASZA I WASZA WOLNOSC" 

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Roll of Honour both world wars.

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Royal Arms of 1714-1801 hanging in St Peter's.

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Sun Dial set into south chapel wall with remains of a Mass Dial behind.

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