St Peter, Kingerby

St Peter’s is a Grade I redundant church in isolated fields at Kingerby, Lincolnshire, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, opposite the grounds of Kingerby Hall.

Overview

Historic England records fabric of the early eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with early seventeenth-century work and minor nineteenth-century repairs. The church is squared and coursed ironstone rubble with some brick patching, under lead and pantile roofs: a three-stage tapering thirteenth-century west tower, nave with clerestory, south aisle and porch, and a lower chancel. The earlier Anglo-Saxon nave roof pitch is visible on the east face of the tower, cut by a thirteenth-century string course. A deeply splayed circular opening high in the west wall of the nave is recorded as the original early eleventh-century west light.

The blocked north arcade marks a lost aisle. Inside, an early seventeenth-century king-post nave roof has four arch-braced moulded tie beams. Fourteenth-century stained glass in the east aisle window includes the Crucifixion, St Catherine and St Cecilia. Monuments include a mid-thirteenth-century cross-legged knight and a late fourteenth-century knight on tomb chests, and a coffin-shaped slab in the chancel said to commemorate a member of the Disney family. An alms box of 1639 is inscribed “This is Gods Treasury.” The church is open daily, dawn to dusk.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1063432
• St Peter's Church, Kingerby (Wikipedia)