The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Lincolnshire (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
Redundant parish church
Normanby by Spital is a village in the West Lindsey district of the county, 7 miles W of Market Rasen and 10 miles N of Lincoln. The church stands at the crossroads in the centre of the village and consists of a W tower, aisled nave and chancel. The tower is 12thc in origin with a weathered chevron stringcourse and two carved Romanesque voussoirs reset into its exterior S and W walls. The belfry lights are 13thc and 14thc and there is a battlemented parapet. The nave has a fine Romanesque N arcade, and the S aisle was rebuilt in 1890.
The church is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Parish church
Mumby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 33 miles E of Lincoln and 2½ miles from the North Sea coast at Chapel St Leonard's. The church is on the main road through the village and is built of limestone ashlar, squared limestone and greenstone rubble. It consists of a 13thc. nave with clerestoreys and four-bay side aisles. The three W bays of the N arcade have transitional piers and responds of Romanesque style. The W tower is in a Perpendicular style. The church was restored in 1843-4; the long chancel being rebuilt in 1874.
Parish church
Scothern is a village in the West Lindsey district of the county, 5 miles NE of the centre of Lincoln. The church stands in the cetre of the bvillage on the S side of the main street. It has a late-medieval W tower, a nave of 1861 and a chancel rebuilt in 1904, replacing an 18thc. chancel. There was a restoration in 1876 by Kirke of Sleaford. Romanesque sculpture is found in the chancel arch.
Parish church
South Carlton is a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 2 miles N of Lincoln. The church is on the northern edge of the village and is built of coursed limestone rubble. It was It has a W tower and interior nave and chancel. It is 12thc in origin but was almost entirely rebuilt in 1859 by S. S. Teulon. The side aisles and most of the exterior are 19th century. The aisle arcades were rebuilt in the 19thc using original 13th-century material. To the N of the chancel is the Monson mausoleum built in 1897-98 by William Watkins. The plain W arch of the nave is Romanesque as is the reset piscina in the N wall of the Monson mausoleum.
Parish church
Stixwould is a village in the East district of Lincolnshire, 5 miles W of Horncastle and 13 miles E of Lincoln. The church is sited on the S side of the main road through the village, and consists of a W tower, nave, north porch, chancel and vestry. It is constructed of squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and was largely rebuilt by Christopher Turner in 1831, and enlarged in 1864, although some medieval fabric remains. Pevsner (1964, 379) reported various fragments including coffin lids from Stixwould Priory, a Cistercian nuns' house dating from the 12thc, but these were not found in 1994. A further coffin lid inside the building may be of 12thc. date (but see Comments)..
Parish church
Swallow is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 9 miles NE of Market Rasen and 7 miles SW of the coast at Grimsby. The church is in the village centre, and is an ironstone rubble and ashlar building with a late-11thc. W tower, a 13thc. nave with a N aisle, and a chancel. The top of the tower was rebuilt in 1868 with a pyramid roof; the rest of the church was restored in 1883-4. The W tower door may be early Romanesque.
Parish church
Swinderby is a village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, 8 miles SW of Lincoln and 6 miles NE of Newark. The church stands onm the W side of the High Street, It conists of a 13thc. W tower,a nave with a N aisle, a chancel with a two-bay N chapel, and a 19thc. apse added by J. T. Lee who restored the church in 1879. The N nave arcade and the pillar piscina in the chancel are Romanesque.
Parish church
Revesby is a village in the East Lindsey district of the county, 11 miles N of Boston and 21 miles SE of Lincoln. It is a dispersed village, extending for approximately a mile along the A155 between Mareham-le-Fen and East Kirby, and has the site of Revesby Abbey, a former Cistercian House, less than a mile to the N of the village. The church is in the centre, on the S side of the A.155. It was built in 1889-91 by C. Hodgson Fowler, and A number of Romanesque architectural fragments bearing sculptural decoration is set into the interior walls of the W tower and vestry.
Parish church
Rigsby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 11 miles E of Horncastle and 10 miles SE of Louth. St James's is a small marshland church with W porch, nave, and round apse that was completely rebuilt in 1863 by James Fowler, replacing a thatched building. The reused arch into the vestry is Romanesque.
Farm building
Waterton Hall is a large stone farmhouse with several outbuildings dating to the 18th c. In the front garden there is a Romanesque font that is being used as a planter.