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), tells us, “It was evident that this had been done, from the dividing lines in the masonry of the North and South Aisles, as well as from the foundations of an earlier wall crossing the nave between the third piers on either side.”
This westward extension was at the bequest of ‘William Whytebread of Gosberkyrke,’ who directed in his last will that his executors should “enlarge Gosberkyrke church in length at the west end by an arch on each side, of the same structure as the rest of the arches.” This involved the addition of two aisle windows, built in a style matching their adjacent windows.
The church’s fine octagonal spire was added to the tower in the late 1300s or early 1400s.
