"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

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

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

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

DB 23 September 2021

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

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

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

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

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

December 2014

"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

Welby family monuments.

DB 3 November 2018

"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

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

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

May 2015

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

Mark Acton, 2016

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

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

"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

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

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

The two reclining effigies in this impressive monument are of Sir Anthony Irby (d. 1623) and his wife Lady Frances Wray (d. c.1647).

August 2014

"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

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

DB 9 September 2018

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

Mark Acton, 2017

The inscription on the memorial to George Bass.

June 2017

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

June 2017

* Thomas Campbell (1790-1858) renowned Scottish sculptor

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

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

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."

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

DB 10 September 2022

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

DB 10 September 2022

"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

"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

"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

"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

A monument to Poole Savage d.1828. 

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

DB 20 April 2018

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

"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

"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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

"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

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

DB 9 September 2018

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

"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

"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

First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

"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

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

DB 14 May 2023

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Commemorative plaque inside the church.

October 2016

"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

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

"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

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

The monument to Sir Charles Hussey who died in 1664.

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

January 2018

"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

"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

"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

"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 

"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 

"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 

"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

In memory of Agnes Dennison Hutchinson d.1922.

DB 19 May 2019

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

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 

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 

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

Mark Acton, 2017

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

Mark Acton, 2016

Alabaster monument to John Brown (died 1614).

Mark Acton, 2016

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

September 2021 

"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

"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

"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

"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

More modern Welby memorial in the form of a comet.

DB 16 September 2018

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

"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

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

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

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

North side of sanctuary. 

DB 23 March 2020

"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

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

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

October 2016

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

Mark Acton, 2018

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

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

Mark Acton, 2018

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

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

Mark Acton, 2018

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

Mark Acton, 2018

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

May 2018

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

May 2018

Monument of 1738 to seven members of the Bertie family.

May 2018

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

May 2018 

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

Mark Acton, 2018

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

Memorial to Ann Hassard and other family members.

DB 6 February 2020

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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

"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

In memory of Thomas Allenby d.1832 and family.

DB 7 August 2022

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

DB 7 August 2022

In memory of Sophia Uvedale d.1813.

DB 7 August 2022

"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

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.

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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Both monuments are attributed to Jasper Latham.

July 2017

"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

"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

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

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

"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 

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

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

"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

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

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

The sculptor was Henry Cheere.

March 2017

"Single small C19 monument"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063350?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

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

DB 15 May 2022

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

Mark Acton, 2017

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

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

DB 28 July 2018 

A monument to Robert Cawdron, died 1665.

June 2017

"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 

"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

"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

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

DB 4 July 2022

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

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

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

Mark Acton, 2017

Memorial next to the chancel arch.

William Settle was Vicar of the parish for 52 years.

DB 6 February 2020

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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   

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   

"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

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

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

An alabaster monument to Francis Copledyck who died in 1599.

Mark Acton, 2017

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

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

"... 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

"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

"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

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

DB 20 June 2022

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

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

Above a modern kitchen area. 

DB 25 June 2022

Monument to William Durance d.1845.

Located next to the war memorial hence the hanging banner. 

DB 8 July 2022

"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

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

Mark Acton, 2017

"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

"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 

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

First World War memorial to the fallen of Hemswell.

Mark Acton 2014

"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

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

Mark Acton, 2016

"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

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

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

DB 12 September 2021

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

DB 12 September 2021

"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

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

DB 12 September 2021

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

"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 

Monument to Sir William Hussey, d.1691.

DB 20 April 2023

"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

"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

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

DB 20 April 2023

"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

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

DB 20 April 2023

"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

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

WW1 memorial plaque.

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

DB 20 April 2023

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

Mark Acton, 2017

"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

"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

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

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

"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

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

Mark Acton, 2017

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

Mark Acton, 2017

"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

"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

"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

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

DB 14 June 2023

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

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

"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

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

GIVE PEACE IN OUR TIME O LORD"

DB 7 September 2023

"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

"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

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

DB 7 September 2023

"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

"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

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

DB 7 September 2023

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

DB 7 September 2023

"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

"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

"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

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

First World War memorial to the fallen of the parish.

Mark Acton, 2018

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

Mark Acton, 2018

"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 

"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  

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

July 2014

"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

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

DB 7 September 2023

"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

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

DB 7 September 2023

"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

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

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

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

"LEST WE FORGET 1939 - 1945"

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

DB 7 September 2023

"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

"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

"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

A group of monuments on the north wall of the north aisle.

DB 15 May 2022

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 

A closer view of the memorial to "Gervase Cole, Gent" died 1792 and his wife Mary who died 1822.

DB 15 May 2022

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

Monument transferred from the previous church building commemorating 5 young children of Edmund Turnor who was lord of the manor.

DB 10 October 2018

"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

"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

Memorial to John & Katherine Holmes died 1788 & 1798.

DB 8 February 2020

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

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

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

The tomb of Sir Ralph Trehampton dating from around 1300 in St Helen's church, Lea.

Mark Acton, 2014

"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

Monument to Christopher Beresford d.1716 and his eldest son William Beresford d. 1729.

DB 16 September 2018

"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

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

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

Memorial to William Branston Gent. d. 1778 and his widow Leah d. 1806.

DB 8 May 2022

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

"Plain slate tablet to Mary Blomer d.1759"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253206?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 June 2023

Marble tablet with pediment to Francis Hetherington d.1768. 

DB 21 June 2023

"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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monument at the west end of the nave to Elizabeth Hatton d.1724 and her son William Gylby d.1744.

DB 21 December 2019

"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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

Memorials to Tyrwhht Smith d. 1826 and family.

"one of the Aldermen of this CITY" 

DB 27 September 2018

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 

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

"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

"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

First World War memorial to Sergeant John Holmes.

Mark Acton, 2017

"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

"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

Memorial to William Harvey d. 1856 and his wife Hannah d. 1839.

Located above the north door 

DB 25 May 2023

"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

Memorial to William Walker d.1809 and his wife Susanna d.1841.

DB 25 May 2023

Memorial to William Gregory Walker born in Londonthorpe 1791 and died in Sleaford 1841.

DB 25 May 2023

Memorial to Jane, widow of William Gregory Walker, who died at Brighton 1864.

DB 25 May 2023

First & Second World War memorial plaques.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/63745 

DB 25 May 2023

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

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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

Alabaster monument to Sir Anthony Thorold, d 1594.

March 2016

Detail of the monument to Sir Anthony Thorold - the recumbent effigy on a rolled-up mat.

March 2016

Tomb-chest monument for William Thorold, d.1569, made of Purbeck marble.

March 2016

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 

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

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

"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

DB 21 October 2023

DB 21 October 2023

DB 21 October 2023

An early fourteenth century effigy of a priest.

December 2017

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

Guild of servers memorial with dates between 1888 and 1924.

DB 15 May 2022

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

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

"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

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

On the chancel floor an undated brass plaque to Sir Robert Monson.

DB 4 August 2022

On the chancel floor a brass plaque to Edward Monson d.1714. The 11th son of Sir John Monson.

DB 4 August 2022

"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

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

This coffin lid with its foliated cross, which lies in the chancel of the church, probably dates from the mid thirteenth century.

May 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 

DB 26 May 2018

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

Mark Acton, 2016

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

Mark Acton, 2016

First World War memorial.

Mark Acton, 2016

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

October 2016

Inscribed slab to John Pindar of 1776.

DB 2 September 2018

Jean Howard, 4 April 2021

"IN MEMORY OF JAMES FLANNER, M.A. Rector of Partney, who died March 6th 1814, AGED 58 YEARS"

DB 4 September 2022

"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

"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

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

"Brass memorial to Jane Rugeley, 1670"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063679?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 September 2022 

"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

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

"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

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

Memorial to Rev. William Blandy who died 1865.

DB 2 March 2020

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Looking east towards the Pinchbeck Tomb next to the altar.

DB 28 April 2019

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

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

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

"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

Prominent brass plaque in the floor of the chancel for Richard Burdon Esquire who died 1812. 

DB 8 May 2022

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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 

"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

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

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

"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

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

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 

"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 

"SACRED TO THE Memory of William Kingston Gent who departed this Life the 1st Septr 1792 aged 60 ... "

DB 19 November 2023 

"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

The First World War memorial.

Mark Acton, 2014

"Circular slate plaque to Rev. Arthur Rockcliffe d.1798"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308751 

DB 24 August 2019

Alabaster wall plaque to Norreys Fynes d.1735.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308751 

DB 24 August 2019

"In the nave is a marble plaque to Charles Pilkington d.1798"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308751