Monument record MLI116177 - Churchyard, Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall

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Churchyard at Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall. Likely dates to at least the medieval period, when the church it served was built.

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The churchyard at Holy Trinity Collegiate Church is depicted on the 2nd edition 25 inch Ordnance Survey County Series map. It likely dates to at least the medieval period, when the church it served was built. This church was replaced in 1439 by the present Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, which is believed to probably stand on, or very near to the site of its predecessor (see PRN 40156). {1} Four test pits were excavated in the grounds of Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall, in March 2010, to investigate possible water seepage through the northern wall of the church. The test pits revealed medieval and post-medieval activity within the churchyard, including several graveyard soil deposits, the remains of an inhumation, and a former boundary wall: Test pits 1-3 revealed a build of graveyard soil in the post-medieval period, from which an assemblage of 13th to 18th century brick, tile, clay pipe, pottery and glass were recovered. This deposit was found to seal the remains of an east to west aligned stone wall in test pit 2. This wall likely functioned as a boundary wall, and possibly dating to the founding of the college in 1439. Test pit 4 revealed further graveyard soils, from which fragments of disarticulated human bone and pieces of 16th to 19th century brick and tile were identified. A single inhumation grave was also revealed at the bottom of the test pit. {2}{3} Evidence for a former graveyard and associated inhumations were recorded during subsequent archaeological monitoring, conducted between May and August 2010, during groundworks for a new toilet block and drainage works at Holy Trinity Collegiate Church. The former graveyard predating the existing building the existing buildings on the site, supporting the theory that an earlier church structure was on the site, possibly contemporary with the earliest phases of the adjacent castle. {4}{5} The foundations of the southern churchyard boundary wall were recorded in December 2015, during archaeological monitoring of groundworks conducted to inform its proposed repair. The wall likely dates to Lord Cromwell's transformation of the site to a college in 1439, although no finds were recovered during the investigation, and this date remains unconfirmed. The wall is built of red brick throughout, laid in Header bond for the foundations, Stretcher bond for the lower courses, and with English bond for the upper courses. A later brick buttress supporting the southern side of the wall was also recorded. {6}{7} Several disarticulated fragments of human bone were identified within the graveyard soil in December 2018, during archaeological monitoring of further repair works to the southern churchyard wall. The groundworks also revealed a pit, into which a late 19th or early 20th century cremation burial had been placed. The cremation was contained within a stoneware jar, and was surrounded by a cist made from four bricks. The cremation pit was itself cut through an earlier, east to west aligned inhumation burial of uncertain date, and a heavily truncated, east to west aligned linear gully. This gully ran a couple of metres to the south of the current churchyard wall, and on the same alignment, and was thought to be the remains of an earlier medieval churchyard boundary or drainage feature. The cremation and inhumation burial were left in situ during the works, and the disarticulated human bone fragments were collected for reburial. {8}{9}

Sources/Archives (9)

  •  Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-06. 25 Inch County Series Map - Second Edition. 1:2500. TF 25 NW.
  •  Report: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2010. Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall. AAL site code: TAHT 10.
  •  Archive: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2010. Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall. LCNCC 2010.36.
  •  Report: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2012. Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall. AAL site code: TAHT 10.
  •  Archive: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2012. Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall. LCNCC 2010.36.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2015. Holy Trinity Churchyard, Tattershall. APS site code: TACH 15.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2015. Holy Trinity Churchyard, Tattershall. LCNCC 2015.233.
  •  Report: Neville Hall. 2019. Church of the Holy Trinity, Sleaford Road, Tattershall. NH site code: HTTA18.
  •  Archive: Neville Hall. 2019. Church of the Holy Trinity, Sleaford Road, Tattershall. LCNCC 2018.180.

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Grid reference Centred TF 2121 5758 (101m by 98m) Estimated from sources
Civil Parish TATTERSHALL, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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