Close to Grimsthorpe Park, the church of St Mary, Swinstead, has a late Norman nave arcade and Early English tower whilst the chancel and south aisle are from the Decorated period.

There is monument by Westmacott to the fifth and last Duke of Ancaster who died in 1809.

Mark Acton, 2014

Both nave and chancel were resored in the 1850s.

March 2017

A view of the church from the south.

April 2018

A simple but stylish octagonal bowl rest on four shorts shafts and an octagonal base.

March 2017

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

March 2017

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

It is the work of James Forsyth in 1883.

March 2017

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

March 2017

The north bay has three arcades with round piers and double chamfered arches, It dates from c.1200.

March 2017

The south arcade in St Mary's, with octagonal piers, is about a century later than the north arcade.

March 2017