---
title: "St Peter & Our Lady, Glentham"
description: "Located in Glentham, Lincolnshire. Built C13–C16; tower rebuilt 1756; further work 1855 and C20. Diocese of Lincoln. Grade I. Perpendicular, with a Georgian west tower style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Lincolnshire","Glentham","Grade I","Perpendicular"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-peter-our-lady-glentham"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:43:35.499Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T15:59:56.856Z"
location: "Glentham, Lincolnshire"
country: "England"
county: "Lincolnshire"
town: "Glentham"
address: "Church Close, Glentham, Lincolnshire, LN8 2EP"
postcode: "LN8 2EP"
built: "C13–C16; tower rebuilt 1756; further work 1855 and C20"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Peter","Mary"]
diocese: "Lincoln"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular, with a Georgian west tower"
materials: "Coursed limestone rubble with stone-coped lead roofs"
website: "http://www.owmbygroup.co.uk/photo-album/churches/glentham.html"
openingHours: "Summer months, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10am to 4pm. Winter months, keyholder information at the church."
parish: "Glentham"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165045"
gridReference: "TF 003 904"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# St Peter and Our Lady, Glentham

St Peter and Our Lady is a Grade I parish church on Church Close, Glentham, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln, officially listed as the Church of St Peter and St Paul and long associated with a rare surviving pieta over the south porch.

## Overview

Historic England lists a parish church of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, with a west tower rebuilt in 1756 (inscribed “FG 1756” on the west door jamb), and later work of 1855 and the twentieth century. The fabric is coursed limestone rubble with stone-coped lead roofs. The plan is a western tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel and north chapel. The three-stage unbuttressed tower has an embattled parapet, a semi-circular west door with key and impost blocks, an oculus and semi-circular belfry lights. North and south aisles have large fifteenth-century three-light windows in deep concave reveals. The chancel has been shortened; the springing of a thirteenth-century arch remains. Listing NGR is TF 00314 90464.

The fourteenth-century south porch has a deeply moulded entry. Glentham Parish Council records the historic dedication St Peter and Our Lady of Pity, referring to a fifteenth-century pieta of Mary holding the dead Christ in a niche above the porch, described as one of the few such images to survive the Reformation in Lincolnshire. The church is in the Owmby group of parishes.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1165045](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165045)
- [Owmby Group: Glentham](http://www.owmbygroup.co.uk/photo-album/churches/glentham.html)