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A stalwart church solidly holding its own on this windswept hill, St Thomas à Becket consists of a W tower, a nave with S aisle, and a chancel primarily of the 13thc; the S porch dates from the 16thc. The chancel arch, the S arcade of the nave, and a reused grave-marker in the piscina are Romanesque.
Though there is an entry for Bassingthorpe in Domesday Book, there is no mention of a church here in 1086.
The use of two drilled holes to delineate the base of each leaf on the Pier 1 capital is similar to that found on the Pier 1 capital of the nave N arcade at SS Mary and Andrew in Stoke Rochford, just 5 km. to the west. Is this an element of a common setting-out technique, or perhaps a specific workshop feature?
Frances Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications: or, England’s Patron Saints, Vol. 3, London 1899, 44.
N. Pevsner and J. Harris, The Buildings of England, Lincolnshire, New Haven and London 1989, 128-29.