The domestic chapel of St Nicholas was built in 1311 at Wykeham Hall, the country residence of the Prior of Spalding. The magnificent hall, chapel and grounds were moated, and traces of the moat and the scheduled ruins of the chapel remain. The chapel became ruinous in 1782. In 1881, several skeletons were unearthed and a substantial lead coffin was seen. The remains were re-interred. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}{7} An iron object was found at St Nicholas's Chapel, which turned out to be a medieval spear butt or later shepherds crook. A barrel padlock was also found. {8} The scheduling includes a medieval monastic grange, the remains of a retreat house and a chapel. The grange was associated with Spalding Priory, 5km to the south-west, and originally a dependency of Crowland Abbey. The priory was refounded under the abbey of St Nicholas at Angers in 1074, gaining independence from the abbey in 1397. By the mid-1200's most of the land at Weston was in the hands of the priory, and at the beginning of the 14th century, Prior Clement of Hatfield established a monastic grange at Wykeham, building a house and the chapel of St Nicholas in 1311, with the Wykeham establishment serving as a retreat house. After the Dissolution, the chapel became a free chapel, with the estate passing to the Harington family in 1543. Between 1684 and 1787, the estate was held by the Ravenscroft family, then passed to the Everard family in 1834. Repairs were made to the chapel in the 17th century, but it fell into disuse after the collapse of the roof in the late 18th century. The chapel's standing remains (a Grade I Listed Building) and the adjoining graveyard lie at the centre of the moated grange, and are included in the scheduling. The present house, dating to the late 17th century with mid-18th and 20th century additions, is constructed chiefly from red brick, and is a Grade II Listed Building; the house is not included in the scheduling, but the ground beneath it is. A pair of Listed Grade II gate piers, dating to about 1700, are also excluded from the scheduling. The chapel is constructed of limestone ashlar, and raised ground to the north-west is thought to represent further buried building remains. Two raised linear earthworks on the southern part of the moated island are thought to be medieval dylings, while the moat itself is crossed by two causeways. The ground within the graveyard (still in use for cremations) is excluded from the scheduling to a depth of 0.5m, although the ground beneath this is included. The house, the gate piers, all fence posts, boundary walls, outbuildings, the fuel tanks to the north of the farm buildings, and the swimming pool are all excluded from the scheduling but the ground beneath all these features is included. {9}