St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
Whilst the two most easterly windows in the North Aisle are works of art in themselves - and very good they are, too - there are a few more traditional ar…
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
The North Aisle contains five windows, as shown from west to east on the illustration above. They are numbered for reference.
Windows no. 1 & 2
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St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
The Nave of this church stretches from the west door to the base of the tower. On the north and south sides are arcades of four arches, set between subst…
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
Between 1436 and 1450 the nave was lengthened westward by one bay. Kaye, in his book ‘A Brief History of the Church and Parish of Gosberton’ (1897), tell…
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
In the late 1200s or early 1300s, almost the whole of the Norman, and much of the Early English, stages of the church structure was swept away and repla…
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
Whilst the fabric of the church we see today was erected, extended and renovated in phases from the 14th century, there are a number of traces of an earli…
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
Standing pride of place on the altar in the Lady Chapel is a cast of ‘Virgin and Child’ from a relief made by 15th century Florentine Sculptor Antonio Ro…
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton
In a glass display case in the south transept is the old mechanism of the tower clock.
How old is the clock mechanism?
A newspaper article in 1961 …
Look upwards above the tower to see and marvel of the recessed broached octagonal spire rising to 181 feet with three tiers of ornate lucarenes (openings on the flat surface) on alternating sides. Suc…