St Michael, Buslingthorpe
St Michael, Buslingthorpe
St Michael’s is a Grade II* redundant church in the hamlet of Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, standing beside a partly moated farm on the site of a deserted medieval village.
- Location
- Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Buslingthorpe
- Address
- Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, LN3 5AT
- Postcode
- LN3 5AT
- Built
- 13th-century tower; nave and chancel rebuilt 1835
- Architect
- Edward James Willson (1835 restoration and rebuild)
- Denomination
- Churches Conservation Trust
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Buslingthorpe
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Early English tower; Gothic Revival nave and chancel
- Materials
- Coursed limestone rubble and yellow brick with ashlar dressings; slate roofs
- Grid reference
- TF 079 852
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
The two-stage west tower is thirteenth-century coursed limestone with a pyramidal slate roof. In 1835 Edward James Willson restored the church and rebuilt the nave and chancel in yellow brick, leaving a simple plan of tower, nave and chancel. The church was declared redundant in 1984. It is in the historic Diocese of Lincoln and was listed Grade II* on 1 November 1966 (NHLE 1359510).
The building is notable for two medieval monuments to the Buslingthorpe family: an early fourteenth-century limestone slab with one of the earliest military brasses in England, showing a knight in chain mail holding a heart; and a late fourteenth-century tomb chest with a recumbent knight. Fittings are largely nineteenth-century except a reused octagonal font bowl; fragments of fourteenth-century glass survive in the east window.