---
title: "St Faith, Kelstern"
description: "Located in Kelstern, Lincolnshire. Built 14th and 16th centuries; chancel rebuilt 1886. Diocese of Lincoln. Grade II*. Decorated and Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Lincolnshire","Kelstern","Grade II*","Decorated","James Fowler","Ninian Comper","Diocese of Lincoln"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-faith-kelstern"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:54:31.328Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:33:48.974Z"
location: "Kelstern, Lincolnshire"
country: "England"
county: "Lincolnshire"
town: "Kelstern"
address: "Kelstern, Lincolnshire, LN11 0RG"
postcode: "LN11 0RG"
built: "14th and 16th centuries; chancel rebuilt 1886"
architect: "James Fowler (1886–87 restoration)"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Faith"]
diocese: "Lincoln"
grade: "II*"
style: "Decorated and Perpendicular"
materials: "Squared coursed limestone rubble, ashlar render and slate roofs"
openingHours: "Please contact us to arrange a visit or for details of open days."
parish: "Kelstern St Faith"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307119"
accessNotes: "Level access throughout"
---

# St Faith, Kelstern

St Faith’s is a Grade II* parish church in Kelstern, on the Lincolnshire Wolds, standing on the site of a deserted medieval village. The nave and tower are medieval; James Fowler of Louth rebuilt the chancel and restored the church in 1886–87.

## Overview

Historic England lists a fourteenth- and sixteenth-century church with a nineteenth-century chancel: a two-stage rendered west tower, nave, chancel and north porch, in squared coursed limestone rubble with ashlar render and slate roofs. Fourteenth-century three-light windows with cusped ogee heads survive on the north nave wall, with sixteenth-century windows further east and on the south. Interior fittings are largely nineteenth-century except for a fourteenth-century octagonal font on clustered shafts and six sixteenth-century bench ends carved with blank arcading and, locally reported, a fox and hounds.

Monuments include an alabaster standing figure of 1604 to Elizabeth South, wife of Sir Francis South, and a tablet to Dame Ann South (d. 1620). Three stained-glass windows by Sir Ninian Comper (1954–58) commemorate members of the Sleight family. The church is in the Binbrook Group in the Diocese of Lincoln.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1307119](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307119)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Faith](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101307119-church-of-st-faith-calcethorpe-with-kelstern)