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The North Aisle Artworks

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…

The North Aisle Windows

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 …

The Nave

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…

The Church in the Fifteenth Century

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…

The Church in the Fourteenth Century

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…

Traces of an earlier church

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…

Cast of Rosselino’s ‘Virgin Mother and Child’

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…

The Clock Mechanism

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 …

Engraving of the Market Place and Hall Street

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All Saints Holbeach POI: Spire

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…

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