---
title: "Boston St Botolph"
description: "Located in Boston, Lincolnshire. Built 1309-90 (chancel, nave and aisles); tower c.1450-1520. Diocese of Lincoln. Grade I. Decorated and Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Lincolnshire","Boston","Grade I","Decorated","Perpendicular","Boston Stump","Gilbert Scott"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/boston-stump-boston"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:20:56.589Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:29:49.608Z"
location: "Boston, Lincolnshire"
country: "England"
county: "Lincolnshire"
town: "Boston"
address: "Bank Street, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 6NW"
postcode: "PE21 6NW"
built: "1309-90 (chancel, nave and aisles); tower c.1450-1520"
architect: "Restorations by Gilbert Scott (1845), George Place of Nottingham (1851-53) and Sir Charles Nicholson (1929)"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Botolph"]
diocese: "Lincoln"
grade: "I"
style: "Decorated and Perpendicular"
materials: "Ashlar with lead roofs"
website: "https://parish-of-boston.org.uk/"
openingHours: "The church is open to visitors from 8.30am until 4pm Monday to Saturday and on Sundays from 1pm to 4pm. The tower is open most days from 10am until 3.30pm."
parish: "Boston St Botolph"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388844"
gridReference: "TF 326 441"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# Boston St Botolph

St Botolph's, known as Boston Stump, is a Grade I parish church on Church Close, Boston, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln. Its western tower with tall octagonal lantern is a landmark over the fenland.

## Overview

Historic England records that work began in 1309 on the chancel, nave and aisles, completed in 1390; the tower was started about 1450 and finished in 1520. The church is ashlar with lead roofs. The plan is a western tower with octagonal lantern (the Stump), nave with clerestory, aisles, chancel, south porch and chapel, and north vestry. The three-stage tower has stepped set-back buttresses, panel tracery, crocketed pinnacles and a castellated parapet; the lantern has flying buttresses and crocketed pinnacles. The west front has a pair of traceried doors under a cusped ogee and a very large eight-light west window. The north aisle is of seven bays with tall four-light windows of flowing tracery; the clerestory is of fourteen bays. The two-storey south porch has a parvise and a sundial dated 1757. Beyond the porch is the three-bay Cotton Chapel.

The interior has seven-bay nave arcades with quatrefoil piers, a painted timber nave ceiling of 1927 by Sir Charles Nicholson, and a star lierne vault in the tower by G. G. Pace using the springers of an unexecuted medieval vault. Fittings include choir stalls of about 1390 with misericords, a pulpit of 1612, wrought-iron communion rails of 1754, an octagonal nineteenth-century font in fourteenth-century style by Edward Welby Pugin, and a reredos of 1890 by W. S. Weatherley. Restorations were by Gilbert Scott in 1845, George Place of Nottingham in 1851-53 and Sir Charles Nicholson in 1929. Stained glass includes work by M. and A. O'Connor (1853), Kempe (1889) and Burlison and Grylls (1944).

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1388844](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388844)
- [Parish of Boston](https://parish-of-boston.org.uk/)