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Name:SITE OF FORMER CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
HER Number:MLI52542
Type of record:Monument

Summary

SITE OF FORMER CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

Grid Reference:SK 836 785
Map Sheet:SK87NW
Parish:TORKSEY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

Full description

ALL SAINTS HAD ST MARY'S AMALGAMATED WITH IT IN THE MID C13 THEY APPEAR JOINTLY LISTED IN 1254, WHILE IN 1291 AND 1428 ST MARY'S IS NOT REFERRED TO. THE FORMER SITE OF ALL SAINTS HAS POSSIBLY BEEN LOCATED BY THE DISCOVERY OF PART OF A CHURCHYARD CEMETERY IN USE IN C13 SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE. ALL SAINTS CHURCH SURVIVED IN USE THROUGHOUT THE C15: IT IS DESCRIBED AS BEING IN DECAY IN 1535 AND IS ABSENT FROM DIOCESIAN RETURNS AT THE END OF THE CENTURY. THE FOSSE NUNNERY LAY IN ITS PARISH. {1}


<1> P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn, 1991, Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire, ARCHIVE NOTES (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1063.

Monument Types

  • CHURCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status

  • Scheduled Monument

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. ARCHIVE NOTES.

Related records

MLI52548Related to: EARLY MEDIEVAL CEMETERY (Monument)
MLI52540Related to: FOSSE NUNNERY (Monument)
MLI50795Related to: Possible site of St Mary's church, Torksey (Monument)