St James, Rigsby, Lincolnshire

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Location
(53°15′19″N, 0°8′31″E)
Site Location
Rigsby
National Grid Reference
TF 430 753
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Lincolnshire now Lincolnshire
Diocese
Dedication
medieval St James now St James
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Thomas E. Russo
Photographers
  • Thomas E. Russo
Visit Date
21 July 1998

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Description

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.

History

The overlordship of Rigsby was divided between the Archbishop of York and Odo, Bishop of Bayeux in 1086. Herbert held 6 bovates there from the archbishop that had been held by Healfdene in 1066, and this manor also included a church and a priest. Losoard held 10 bovates from Odo that had been held by Thorulf and Odbert in 1066.

Herbert was apparently Herbert of Rigsby, and the manor remained in that family until at least the 14thc. In 1242 Thomas of Rigsby held one knight's fee in Rigsby (Foster(1924)).

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

The vestry doorway is a reset 12thc work, possibly the original chancel arch,

Bibliography

C. W. Foster and T. Longley (ed.), The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey, Publications of the Lincolnshire Record Society, 19, (1924), 77.

Historic England Listed Building. English Heritage Legacy ID: 196087

Lincolnshire Historic Environment Record MLI42436.

  1. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1990, 611.