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St Denys' Church, Sleaford

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St Denys' Church, Sleaford
The church's west faade, facing
the market place
St Denys' Church, Sleaford is located in Lincolnshire
St Denys' Church, Sleaford
St Denys' Church, Sleaford
Location in Lincolnshire
5259'59?N 024'32?WCoordinates: 5259'59?N 024'32?W
OS grid reference
TF 06883 45893
Country
England
Denomination
Church of England
Previous denomination Roman Catholic
History
Dedication
St Denys
Administration
Parish New Sleaford
Deanery
Lafford
Diocese
Lincoln
Province
Canterbury
Clergy
Vicar(s)
Rev. Philip Anthony Johnson
St Denys' Church, Sleaford, is a medieval parish church in Sleaford, Lincolnshir
e, England. A church and priest have probably existed in the settlement since at
least 1086, but the exact date of the present building's construction is unknow
n. The oldest parts are the tower and spire, which date back to the late 12th an
d early 13th centuries; the stone broach spire is one of the earliest examples o
f its kind in England. The Decorated Gothic nave, aisles and north transept were
built in the 14th century. The church was altered in the 19th century: the nort
h aisle was rebuilt by the local builders Kirk and Parry in 1853 and the tower a
nd spire were largely rebuilt in 1884 after being struck by lightning. St Denys'
remains in use for worship by the Church of England.
The church is a Grade I listed building, a national designation given to "buildi
ngs of exceptional interest".[1] The architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsne
r stated it is "remembered for the flowing tracery of its windows".[2] Built out
of Ancaster stone with a lead roof, St Denys' is furnished with a medieval rood
screen and a communion rail, possibly by Sir Christopher Wren, and has a peal o
f eight bells, dating to 1796. The church also houses several memorials, includi
ng two altar tombs commemorating members of the Carre family, Sleaford's Lords o
f the Manor in the 17th century.
Contents
1 Description
2 History
2.1 Background and origins
2.2 Expansion
2.3 Early modern and later
3 Architecture, fittings and grounds
4 Memorials
5 References
5.1 Notes
5.2 Citations
5.3 Bibliography
6 Further reading

7 External links
Description
St Denys' Church is the parish church of the benefice of Sleaford (formerly call
ed New Sleaford), which encompasses most of the market town of Sleaford in the E
nglish non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire. The benefice is a vicarage and f
alls within the deanery of Lafford and the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln;[
3] as of 2015, the vicar is Rev. Philip Anthony Johnson, who was appointed in 20
13.[4][5] The church is located next to (and faces onto) the market place at the
town centre.[3] It is dedicated to St Denys; the Victorian clergyman and local
historian Edward Trollope stated that this is a medieval form of St Dionysius, b
ut does not elaborate on which of the several saints called Dionysius this refer
s to.[6] According to a pamphlet published by the parochial church council, St D
enys is a medieval composite of St Dionysius (or St Denis), who was martyred in
Paris in c.?250, St Dionysis the Areopagite and an anonymous Syrian saint called
the pseudo-Areopagite.[7]
As of 2015, regular church services are scheduled for Sundays and Wednesdays. Ho
ly Communion is conducted at 8:00am on Sundays, followed by Sunday School and an
all-age family worship at 10:00am. A parent and toddler group is scheduled for
Wednesdays at 9:30am, and Holy Communion is conducted at 10:00am.[3]
History
View of the church from Eastgate, looking north-west. The chancel is visible in
the foreground, extending from the nave and aisles. The clerestory and spire are
also visible.
Background and origins
The Sleaford area has been inhabited since the late Iron Age; people settled aro
und the ford where a prehistoric track running northwards from Bourne crossed th
e River Slea.[8] A large hoard of coin moulds belonging to the Corieltauvi tribe
have been uncovered in this area and dated to the late Iron Age.[8] It was occu
pied by the Romans,[9] and then by the Anglo-Saxons.[10] The place-name Slioford
first appears in 852, meaning "crossing over a muddy stream", in reference to t
he Slea.[11] The settlement around the crossing came to be known as "Old" Sleafo
rd in 13th-century sources to distinguish it from developments further west, aro
und the present-day market place, which came to be known as "New" Sleaford.[12]
The origins of New Sleaford are not clear, leading to a theory that it was plant
ed by the Bishop of Lincoln in the 12th century as a means of increasing his inc
ome, hence the epithet "New". The town's compass-point layout, the 12th-century
date of St Denys' stonework and other topographical features offer evidence for
this theory.[13][14]
A speculative reassessment of Domesday Book (1086) material suggests that St Den
ys' origins may be earlier. Two manors called Eslaforde (Sleaford) were recorded
in the Domesday Book, one held by Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln, the other by Ram
sey Abbey. The Bishop succeeded a Saxon thegn, Bardi, and held 11 carucates with
29 villeins, 11 bordars, 6 sokemen, a church and priest, as well as 8 mills, 1
acre of woodland, 320 acres (130 ha) of meadow and 330 acres (130 ha) of marsh.
Ramsey Abbey had been granted land in Sleaford and surrounding villages before t
he Norman Conquest of England; in Domesday its fee consisted of 1 carucate, 1 so
keman, 2 villeins and 27 acres of meadow. It was sokeland of the abbot of Ramsey
's manor of Quarrington, where he held two churches.[15] There is no evidence fo
r a second church at Quarrington, which suggests that the record is alluding to
one in another of the abbot's manors for which Quarrington was an estate centre.
The local historians David Roffe and Christine Mahany ruled out the possibility
that this referred to Cranwell, another of the abbey's fees, and concluded that
it is probably a reference to the church at Old Sleaford, which was granted by
a knight of Ramsey to Haverholme Priory in c. 1165. Hence, the church possessed
by the bishop in the other manor must have been a second church in Sleaford, and

therefore could only have been St Denys' in what would become New Sleaford.[16]
Expansion
Sleaford and its church were altered considerably in the 12th century, especiall
y under Bishop Alexander of Lincoln; a castle was constructed to the west of the
town during his episcopate and work on the earliest surviving parts of the chur
ch may date to this period.[17] Facing onto the market place, the tower is the o
ldest part of the present church building and dates to the late 12th century, pr
obably c. 1180.[18] Its broach spire has been dated to the early 13th century, p
ossibly c. 1220.[18] A prebendary of Sleaford is recorded in the late 13th centu
ry whose office was probably founded by one of the post-Conquest Bishops, who we
re its patrons. The vicarage of Sleaford was founded and endowed in 1274; the re
cord has survived and shows Henry de Sinderby being presented to the vicarage by
the Treasurer of Lincoln and Prebendary of Sleaford, Richard de Belleau; the Bi
shop instituted him that March. The vicar could profit from tithes and oblations
, and was given a house formerly occupied by one Roger the chaplain, but he had
to pay 15 to the prebendary at the feasts of the Nativity and St John the Baptist
. The prebendary otherwise retained his jurisdiction over the parish.[19]
A period of rebuilding and remodelling occurred in the late Middle Ages. A chant
ry chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was founded in 1271 by the merchants Th
omas Blount and John de Bucham, who endowed it with lands around Old and New Sle
aford, and several surrounding villages. The chapel is located on the north aisl
e, and the chaplain was instructed to pray there for the founders at his daily m
ass.[20] The chantry priest's house is recorded in the 1440s as one of the oldes
t buildings in Sleaford; located in the churchyard, it became the Vicarage.[21]
The tower was probably accompanied by a nave of a similar date, which was rebuil
t in the Decorated Gothic style in the mid to late 14th century; the transept fo
llowed twenty or thirty years later, according to Trollope.[18][22] A clerestory
was added in around 1430 and the chancel was remodelled at this time.[18]
Early modern and later
A diocesan return of 1563 recorded 145 households in the parish of New Sleaford,
[23] while the Compton Census (1676) reveals that New Sleaford had a Conformist
population of 576 people, no "Papists", and 6 Non-conformists.[24] There is a wi
dely held local tradition that St Denys' was used during the English Civil War (
1642 51) as a barracks for parliamentary troops who destroyed the interior furnish
ings.[25] The local historian Trollope stated that the soldiers looted the brass
eagle lectern (last recorded in 1622),[26] broke the stained glass windows and
the organ, and stole valuables.[27] Whether this damage occurred or not, repairs
to the windows and roof were carried out in 1657, paid for by public subscripti
on. Galleries were also added to the church in the 18th century: the south in 17
58, west in 1772, and north in 1783 84.[28] In 1772, Edward Evans, a ship's surgeo
n on HMS Egmont, donated 300 to replace the organ with one built by Samuel Green
of London.[20]
For most of the 19th century, the Anglican community dominated Sleaford's civic
bodies, including the Board of Guardians, who oversaw the workhouse, and the Loc
al Board of Health. Dr Richard Yerburgh and his son, Richard, were vicars in 180
9 51 and 1851 82 respectively and had family connections with the local builders Kir
k and Parry; Yerburgh and Thomas Parry (one half of the firm) were on the Board
of Guardians and were labelled members of a "family party" by opponents during t
he Board's 1870 elections (they were nonetheless re-elected).[29][30] They and o
ther local clergymen were key players in the establishment of National schools i
n Sleaford and Quarrington, which Kirk and Parry built.[29] The Anglican congreg
ation, at an estimated 700 to 800 people in 1851 (St Denys' had enough space for
743 people), was less than half of the size of the nonconformist community, whi
ch was probably larger than 2,000 and tended to flourish in poorer parts of the
town.[31][32]

The 19th century also witnessed two major restorations to St Denys'. As the cong
regation expanded, the need for greater space was met with the addition of a new
north aisle in 1853. This coincided with a wider restoration project carried ou
t at the cost of 3,500 by Kirk and Parry, which included the demolition of the ga
lleries, the addition of a strainer arch and the relocation of the organ.[28][33
] The church was damaged by an electrical storm in 1884 and parts, including the
stone broach spire one of the oldest in England[2] were rebuilt by Kirk and Parry i
n 1885 86.[28] The old organ was sold in 1891 and St Hugh's Chapel and the choir v
estry were dedicated to the memory of a local solicitor, Henry Snow, in 1906.[28
][34] Electric lighting was introduced in 1951 53 and extensive restoration work w
as carried out in 1966, when the organ was rebuilt, and in 1988.[28] Fifty-four
solar panels were added in 2008, at the cost of 70,000, and by 2011 were able to
cover the church's electricity bill.[35]
Architecture, fittings and grounds
The nave of St Denys', looking eastwards towards the chancel
The chancel and choir, looking eastwards
St Denys' is constructed in Ancaster stone across four periods: the earliest sec
tions in a transitional style between Early English Gothic and Decorated Gothic;
the late medieval nave, aisles and chancel in Decorated Gothic; the later Perpe
ndicular Gothic clerestory and chancel; and the Victorian neo-Gothic restoration
s. The earliest parts consist of the late 12th or early 13th-century tower and s
pire on the west side of the church, which have a combined height of 144 feet (4
4 m). Its arched entrance exhibits features of both the Early English and Decora
ted Gothic styles. During the restoration, a 15th-century window was removed, pl
aced in the churchyard and replaced by arcading and three circlets, deemed "some
what absurd" by the architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.[2][18]
With the exception of the tower and spire, much of the church was rebuilt in the
Decorated Gothic style during the late 14th century. The nave and aisles extend
eastwards from the tower. Outside, parts of the aisles are highly decorated; th
e north doorway includes shafts, mouldings and finials, while the simpler south
doorway has niches and monster carvings. The northern doorway has a gable which
encroaches up into a five-light window.[36] Pevsner remarks that St Denys' is pa
rticularly notable for its tracery,[2] and the building's entry on the Statutory
List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest notes "particul
arly good mid [14th-century] tracery and ornament".[18] The window above the nor
th doorway is a good example; it contains elements shared by others of the Decor
ated style around the church, including reticulated ogee arches of varying compl
exity.[36] A Perpendicular clerestory adorns the aisles with three-light windows
; it dates to the early 15th century, possibly c. 1430. The north aisle was exte
nded in 1853, but the architects, Kirk and Parry, reused the windows.[18][37] Th
e north transept includes a six-light window "one of the great flowing designs of
the country", according to Pevsner.[37]
The tower ceiling has a tierceron vault and is connected to the nave and aisles
by arches. The nave's arcading spans four bays, the last of which on the north s
ide acts as an entrance to the transept. The north aisle was extended in 1853 by
Kirk and Parry, who added a strainer arch to support the tower and join it with
the north aisle.[38] The reredos and altar were built in 1922 by L.T. Moore;[n
1] the rood screen was restored by Ninian Comper in 1918 and the Communion rail
was taken from Lincoln Cathedral during a restoration;[38] it has been attribute
d to Sir Christopher Wren, but Pevsner makes no mention of this.[38][39] The scr
een and altar rails in St Hugh's Chapel are the work of C.H. Fowler; E. Stanley
Watkins completed the reredos in 1906.[38] In the 1640s, the stained glass inclu
ded the armorial bearings of Sir William Hussey impaling his wife's Barkley arms
, and the arms of Markham and John Russell, Bishop of Lincoln. These have not su
rvived,[41] but the current stained glass includes a "very Gothic" window by Har
dman dating to c. 1853, three by Holland of Warwick from the late 1880s, one of
Ward and Hughes (1885) and one by Morris & Co. from 1900.[38] In 2006 Glenn Cart

er completed a stained glass window dedicated to Yvonne Double which had been co
mmissioned by her widower, Eddy Double.[42][43][n 2]
The earliest peal recorded at St Denys' had 6 bells, three dating from 1600, one
from 1707 and two undated. In 1796 a new peal of 8 bells were cast by Thomas Os
born of Downham, Norfolk; the tenor is in the E key and weighs 19 long cwt 3 qr
6 lb (2,218 lb or 1,006 kg).[45][46] Samuel Green's organ of 1772 was rebuilt by
Holdich in 1852[47] and replaced by the present organ in 1891, which was built
by Forster and Andrews of Hull; rebuilt by Harrison and Harrison in 1966, it was
restored by A. Carter in 1999 and has three manuals and a pedalboard.[48][49] S
t Hugh's Chapel has its own organ, installed by Cousans and Sons in 1912 with on
e manual.[49][50] The church also houses a collection of fifteen antique, chaine
d books in an oak reading desk; the oldest items date to the early 17th century
and include tracts on divinity. Other items of furniture include two old chests
and a dole cupboard, while a 16th-century tapestry is in the church's possession
.[38][51] The octagonal font is in a Decorated Gothic style, but has been altere
d considerably.[38]
The churchyard around St Denys' has been expanded several times: first in 1391,
when the Bishop of Lincoln, John Bokingham, was granted a piece of land 150 by 8
feet (45.7 m 2.4 m) to one side of the church. Land to the north was also added
in 1796. The grounds were enclosed by a dwarf wall, which was replaced by a mor
e substantial stone wall and iron fence in 1837; the railings were removed durin
g the First World War.[7][52] In a report on the town's health in 1850, William
Ranger criticised the overcrowding of the churchyard; in 1855, burials in the gr
ounds ceased and the vestry elected a burial board to produce a solution.[n 3] T
hey purchased 2 acres, 3 roods and 31 poles (0.92 ha) of land to the north of Ea
stgate at a cost of 1,500; this was converted into a cemetery and a further 2 roo
ds and 17 poles (0.063 ha) were bought for an access road. These grounds were ex
tended in 1862 by an acquisition of 3 acres and 39 poles (1.51 ha) of land to th
e west of the cemetery; they are now managed by Sleaford Town Council.[53][54]
The doorway in the tower of the church, showing three orders of shafts and z
igzag mouldings in the arch
The five-light window with reticulated ogee arches above the doorway of the
north aisle
The rood screen, restored by Sir Ninian Comper in 1918[38]
View into the north transept and the chantry chapel
East window of the chancel
Yvonne Double memorial window, by Glenn Carter, 2006[42][43]
The pulpit
15th-century window removed from the tower during restoration work in c. 188
4
Memorials
Altar tomb of Sir Edward Carre
According to Edward Trollope, the oldest tombstone in the church was from the 13
th century; it was faded and illegible when he recorded it in or before 1872. A
14th-century slab, originally for a now-lost effigy, is in the church, and brass
plate from the same period was discovered during the 1853 restoration. Richard
Dokke, along with his wife Joanna and son John, are commemorated in a plaque dat
ing to the 1430s, and a plaque to William Harebeter and his wife Elizabeth also

dates to the 15th century.[55]

Although Gervase Holles recorded many 16th-century monuments when he visited Sle
aford, most have disappeared.[56] Amongst those which remain are the tombs and p
laques commemorating the first members of the Carre family to settle in Sleaford
. The Carres hailed from Northumberland, but George Carre (d. 1521), a wool merc
hant, established himself in the town and is commemorated in St Denys' by a bras
s. On the northern side of the chancel is an alabaster monument dedicated to Geo
rge's eldest surviving son Robert Carre (d. 1590), his three wives and some of t
heir children; he became lord of the manors of Old and New Sleaford. Opposite, o
n the southern side, is an alabaster altar tomb by Maximilian Colt dedicated to
Robert's fourth son and eventual heir, Sir Edward Carre, 1st Baronet (d. 1618),
which carries the effigies of Edward and one of his two wives, probably his seco
nd, Anne Dyer; according to Trollope, it was "said to have been mutilated during
the Civil War".[57][58] Further plaques commemorate Sir Edward Carre's grandson
, Sir Robert Carre, 3rd Baronet (d. 1682), and his son, Sir Edward (d. 1683), wh
o is also commemorated by a bust in the church.[59]
There are numerous other memorials to prominent Sleafordians. Early examples are
plaques to John Walpoole (d. 1591, monument dated 1631), the draper Richard War
sope (d. 1609, erected by Robert Camock), and Rev. Theophilius Brittaine (d. 169
6).[60] Later monuments include those of Richard Moore (d. 1771) and Elizabeth C
ooper (d. 1792), as well as a slab for Eleanor (d. 1725), wife of John Peart.[58
][61] The novelist Frances Brooke (d. 1789) is buried in the church.[62] Clergym
en include William Seller, Joseph Francis (d. 1749) and Anthony Skepper (d. 1773
). A window is dedicated to a local solicitor, Henry Snow (d. 1905), and memoria
ls on the north wall include George Jeudwine (d. 1952), another solicitor, and t
he local historian William Hosford (d. 1987).[63] The monument to Ann Bankes (d.
1834) incorporates a statue of a woman sinking into the ground, which Pevsner c
alled "remarkably tender", while the tablet to Ann Moore (d. 1830) in the transe
pt is noted as "good Grecian".[58]
References
Notes
An earlier reredos, designed in "fine Gothic" style by Charles Kirk, was erected
in memory of M.P. Moore (d. 1866).[39][40]
Other windows have been dedicated to prominent parishioners, including Dr Richar
d Yerburgh, Charles Kirk, Francis and Benjamin Handley, Caroline E. Moore, Rober
t George Bankes, John Bissill, John Caparn, Mrs. Lucy Ashington, Henrietta Banke
s, John Pearson, and William Hoster. Thomas Parry, C. Drake Newton and Mrs. Warw
ick.[44]
The first members were M.P. Moore, John Warwick, Edward Newbatt, William Fos
ter, Thomas Simpson, Edward Allen, J.T. Marston, Charles Kirk and Thomas Parry.
Newbatt and Kirk declined the offer and so W.H. Holdich and Rev. Richard Yerburg
h were elected in their place.[53]
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