Set in concrete against the external west wall of the nave towards the north-west corner

No direct evidence. The church was rebuilt by R. H. Fowler in 1889–90 using older walls (Pevsner and Harris 1964, 186), and the group of monuments and stones of which this forms a part (Greenhill 1986, 19) may have been accumulated then. Earlier in the century north and south aisles and a south chapel had been demolished, and Bonney in 1846 refers to resulting heaps of rubbish in the churchyard (Harding 1937, 40–1).

St Andrew

Badly weathered

A disc-headed marker with shouldered and tapering shaft. Around the edge of the disc head is a broad flat fillet occupying the central third of the width; it has no sign of decoration.

A (broad): Decorated on the disc with a cross in low relief; its arms of type E8 are attached to a central ring.

B and D (narrow): Undecorated except for the moulding on the head.

C (broad): Not visible.

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

This is a marker type of common occurrence in Lincolnshire. Close parallels, though with slightly different cross types, exist locally at Cabourne. The type is found in significant numbers in north-east England, as at Birtley 3 (Cramp 1984, pl. 232, 1314), Chollerton 2 (ibid., pl. 234, 1331), Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1 (ibid., pls. 248, 1371 and 249, 1376), Warden 5 (ibid., pl. 255, 1391–3) and Woodhorn 4 (ibid., pls. 258, 1404 and 259, 1405), all Northumberland, and there taken to date to the late eleventh century. The Newcastle piece has an archaeological context of reuse before 1178. A similar marker is known also at Cleator 1, Cumberland (Bailey and Cramp 1988, ills. 624–7) and reckoned of late eleventh to mid twelfth-century date. Passing observation suggests that such markers are of widespread occurrence in southern and midland England no less than in the north. In the Lincolnshire context, the stone type may also suggest a post-Conquest date.

This marker may have stood as a pair with Beelsby 2 in a single complex monument or grave suite.

STONES DATING FROM SAXO-NORMAN OVERLAP PERIOD OR OF UNCERTAIN DATE. Later eleventh or twelfth century

Unpublished