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St Benedict, Wood Enderby, Lincolnshire

Location
St Benedict, Horncastle LN9 6JL, United Kingdom (53°10′26″N, 0°6′29″W)
Wood Enderby
TF 273 641
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Lincolnshire
now Lincolnshire
  • Thomas E. Russo
  • Thomas E. Russo
28 March 1994

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Feature Sets
Description

Wood Enderby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 4 miles S of Horncastlle. It consists of a few houses clustered around a crossroads of narrow lanes in an arable farming landscape. The church is reached by a lane to the N of the village centre, and was made redundant in 1976. It is now closed and used as a store. The church was rebuilt in 1860 by George Hackford, and consists of a nave and chancel of greenstone and a W tower with a broach spire. Some masonry survives from the previous church on the site, but the only Romanesque sculprure is the bowl of a pillar piscina, resey in the chancel.

History

Wood Enderby was held by the king in 1086, as sokeland of his manor of Horncastle. It was assessed at 3 carucates.

Features

Furnishings

Piscinae/Pillar Piscinae

Comments/Opinions

The fluted decoration of the bowl recalls the more complete, but even less skilfully carved example at Hagworthingham, 6 miles to the NE

Bibliography

Historic England Listed Building. English Heritage Legacy ID: 400497

  1. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1990, 809-10.