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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Healing

Lincolnshire

Early C13 tower arch, C16-C17 tower, late Medieval chancel on earlier foundations

Architectural Features

Angle gargoyles, restored moulded string course, coped embattled parapet and crocketed angle pinnacles.

Chancel: ashlar wall tablet in north wall to Elizabeth Lamb of 1685, with recessed inscribed panel flanked by scrolls

medieval carved tread to gale.

Black marble floorslab in tower to Sir Francis Coventry of 1687 with Latin marginal inscription.

to Robert Parkinson of 1822 with carved brackets, cornice and pediment

to Elizabeth Iles of 1834 with carved brackets, moulded cornice and draped urn.

C19 fittings and font.

Archaeological excavations in advance of building on the south side of the church in 1975 revealed foundations of a C13 south aisle which partly embraced the chancel, and evidence of a pre-Conquest church.

Similarities with the towers at Aylesby and Immingham (qv) suggest a date between 1550- 1650.