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ST PETERS CHURCH

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12th-14th century spire restored 1872. Coursed limestone rubble
and ashlar, lead and Collyweston slate roofs. West tower with broach spire, nave, chancel, north and south aisles, south porch. at the west end are the stocks and a whipping post, in the churchyard is a badly weathered medieval stone cross, consisting of a base, a square socket stone and an octagonal shaft.

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TF 08963613 St Peter's Church (NAT). (1)

St Peter's Church, Threekingham, is late Norman or Transitional to
early Decorated.

At the west end of the north aisle are the dilapidated stocks and
whipping-post.

In the churchyard is the base and 30" of the shaft of a cross. (2-3)

Church in normal use. The stocks and whipping post now stand at the
west end of the south aisle. See GP AO/65/39/8.

The churchyard cross has a square socket stone, 0.55m across and
0.25m high. The octagonal shaft, 0.8m high, is 0.20m square at the
base, and is now badly weathered. See GP AO/65/25/5. It is located at
TF 08983611. (4)

Documentary evidence cited. (5)

TF 0898 3611. Churchyard cross, St Peter's churchyard. Scheduled
RSM no. 22643. (6)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 25" 1905

( 2) General reference

Little Guide, Lincs 2nd Edn 1924 317-8 (J C Cox)

( 3) General reference

Lincs Notes and Queries 12 1912-3 148 (D S Davies)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 AJT 16-AUG-77

(5) General reference

Lincs Hist and Archaeol 21 1986 31-33 (D Roffe)

(6) General reference

English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, Lincolnshire, 12-OCT-1994

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