The 14th to 15th century saw a number of minor pilgrimage centres spring up, one of which existed at Rippingale. In the 14th century the parish priest and parishioners of Rippingale alleged that a wooden statue known as Jurdon Cross which stood 'in certain fields within the parish bounds near the high road' had worked miracles, and a great fuss and to do ensued. Bishop Buckingham, whose register is in the Lincoln archives office (register 12 f. 331 v), believed that this was simply a money-making exercise and came out strongly against it in 1387, but the pope granted a licence to the rector in 1390 to build a chapel on the spot and have services there. The chapel apparently survived as a hermitage into the fifteenth century, but no further miracles are known to have taken place. The exact location of this site is uncertain. {1}{2}{3}{4}