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St Michael, Glentworth, Lincolnshire

Location
(53°22′52″N, 0°34′50″W)
Glentworth
SK 945 881
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Lincolnshire
now Lincolnshire
  • Thomas E. Russo
  • Thomas E. Russo
11 January 1995

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Feature Sets
Description

Glentworth is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 8 mile E of Gainsborough and 11 miles N of Lincoln. The church stands in the centre of the village; a building of coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, and ironstone and limestone ashlar. It consists of a W tower with a NW lean-to, and a nave and chancel in one with a S porch. The tower is late-11thc and of rubble with long-and-short quoins and bell-openings with volute tau-cross capitals. The nave dates from 1782 and, the chancel was rebuilt in the late 16th century, but has a reset 12thc. S doorway.

History

The king held 6 carucates of ploughland as sokeland of the manor of Kirton in Lindsey in 1086. A second holding of 7 bovates was held by Aestan in 1066 and by Wadard from Odo, Bishop of Bayeux in 1086. A third holding of 7 bovates was held by Godric before the Conquest and by Ansketil from Joscelin Fitzlambert in 1086. A holding of 6 bovates of land was held by Gamal in 1066 and by Martin in 1086, and a final holding of 7 bovates was held by Soti before the Conquest and Restold in 1086.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

Pevsner suggests that the chancel arch is late 12thc., but the entirely plaster capitals suggest that it dates to the 1782 rebuilding.

Bibliography
  • J. R. Foster, A History of Glentworth, 4th edition. Rectory Press 2005, reprinted 2011.

Historic England Listed Building. English Heritage Legacy ID: 196726

  1. N. Pevsner and J. Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1964, 248-49.
  1. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1990, 308-09.