St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Gosberton.
The South Aisle contains four windows, as shown from east to west on the illustration above. They are numbered for reference.
How old are the windows?
Turning first to the stonework of the windows, numbers 1 and 2 date from when the South Aisle was added to the church sometime in the 1300s.
The South Aisle, North Aisle and Nave was extended on its west side sometime between 1436 1450. This extension was at the bequest of ‘William Whytebread of Gosberkyrke,’ Windows 3 and 4 are situated in the extended part of the South Aisle and so date to that time. As an aside, the stonework in the South Aisle wall, between the door and window 3, clearly shows the dividing line between the original wall and the extension.
Note how the stonework in Window 4 matches that of the earlier windows 1 and 2. This was at the express wish of William Whytebread, who directed as such in his last will. Window 3, however, does not match. Had it originally matched, but then subsequently been rebuilt? Something to research further, at some point!
The Glazing
The glazing of all four windows is modern. All contain plain, diamond shaped, glass, though Windows 3, in its central light, contains a wonderful design, in the gothic tradition, dedicated to the memory of Gosberton’s Doctor Alexander Sweet Wilson, who died in 1959.
