April 2011:
OSGODBY (Catholic) Chapel, KIRKBY St Andrew, and KINGERBY St Peter
Our
first church for our April meeting was to have been the RC chapel of
Our Blessed Lady and St Joseph at Osgodby. This occupies the upper
floor of one wing of an L-shaped farmhouse built in 1793 and is the
earliest post reformation R.C. chapel in Lincolnshire.
The chapel of Our Blessed Lady and St Joseph, Osgodby
Sadly the husband of the keyholder was taken into hospital the night before and, understandably, our visit was overlooked. We were unable to locate an alternative keyholder so we moved on to our second church, St Andrew, at Kirkby.
St Andrew’s church Kirkby and two chest monuments
The husband of the churchwarden at Kirkby arranged for a local historian to give us a most informative and enjoyable talk about the church and village.
St Andrews has an Early English tower with three bells – two are dated 1598 and the third was cast in the mid-fifteenth century. There is also an unhung eighteenth century Sanctus bell. The Georgian nave has a plastered ceiling. There are two thirteenth century grave slabs built into the south wall and two late fourteenth century monuments to members of the Wildbore family. One effigy is that of a knight in high relief and the other is of a lady in sunken relief.
Our final visit was to the remote hamlet of Kingerby
Our final visit was to the remote hamlet of Kingerby
St Peter’s church Kingerby and the remains of two fourteenth century monuments.
St Peter’s church was declared redundant in 1981 and is now maintained by the Redundant Churches Fund. There is much of interest here including an Almsbox inscribed: This is God's Treasury. Cast one mite into it, 1639.
There is a monument of a fourteenth century knight, puppies by his pillow, and another of a late fourteenth century knight praying, They are placed on parts of a tomb-chest with shields in barbed quatrefoils, In the chancel there is a bearded later fourteenth century knight (probably a member of the Disney family) in low relief under an ogee gable, Only the upper part of the figure is visible, and the pointed shoes. The shoes come out in an ogee-headed recess which forms the base of a cross decorating that part of the slab where no figure appears.
There is a monument of a fourteenth century knight, puppies by his pillow, and another of a late fourteenth century knight praying, They are placed on parts of a tomb-chest with shields in barbed quatrefoils, In the chancel there is a bearded later fourteenth century knight (probably a member of the Disney family) in low relief under an ogee gable, Only the upper part of the figure is visible, and the pointed shoes. The shoes come out in an ogee-headed recess which forms the base of a cross decorating that part of the slab where no figure appears.
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