Built into the back of an aumbry in interior north wall of chancel

No direct evidence. The aumbry is of recent, certainly post-medieval construction and also reuses fragments from good bracelet-headed grave-covers of later medieval date. The chancel north wall is said to be 'of modern date' by the church guide: the chancel as a whole was rebuilt in the restoration of 1871 ((—) 1871–2a, xvii; Cox 1924, 316).

All Saints

Good, little weathering

The stone is decorated in low relief on its only visible face with a run of four-strand plait. There are broad, plain borders along either edge. An impression of a very slight curvature on this face cannot be properly assessed.

The stone is too small, too awkward of access and too simply decorated for certainty about what form of monument it comes from. It may be the narrow face of a cross-shaft, for which the narrow faces of the shafts at Colsterworth 1 (Ills. 95, 98), at Toft next Newton 1 (Ill. 378) or others of the South Kesteven group (Chapter V), or the runs of simple four-strand plait on the broad faces of the shaft at Harmston 1 (Ills. 196, 198), might offer decorative parallels. Less plausibly, the apparent very slight curvature might suggest the alternative that it is part of one side of a coped grave-cover like that at Mavis Enderby, split longitudinally down its ridge. The interlace would then be infilling of panels around a plain cross, in the manner of the four-strand plaits on the grave-cover from Lincoln Cathedral 1 (Ill. 230). The south Lincolnshire origin that either of these alternatives imply is confirmed by the Barnack stone type.

Probably eleventh century

Butler 1961, 21 fn. 1; Butler 1963–4, 112, fig. 2, no. 7; Pevsner and Harris 1964, 405; ?Ambrose 1979, 8 (under Owersby); Pevsner et al. 1989, 762; Stocker with Everson 1990, 96; Church guide, n.d.