25th February, 2018. Stallingborough church.

Stallingborough church (see picture shwing tower as viewed from the south with trees obscuring the nave) stands detached from the modern village but beside a deserted medieval village site evidenced in the ‘humps and bumps’ in permanent pasture. This site, in its day, would have been dominated by the manor house of the influential Ayscough family. The church is a complete neo-Classical re-build in brick with some large freestone blocks (presumably from the earlier church or from the site of Thornton Abbey) forming the foundation and plinth of the walls. Whereas All Saints, Gainsborough was stone built Stallingborough church was built of brick, almost certainly fashioned nearby from estuarine clays. Apart fro physically visiting the site the church can clearly be seen from the carriage of the Barton to Cleethorpes train, the line passing just north of the church.