Building record MLI33878 - St Thomas a Becket Church and churchyard, Burton Coggles.

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St Thomas a Becket Church and churchyard, Burton Coggles.

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PRN 33878 The church has architectural features that are from Norman to Perpendicular in style. It is still in everyday use. {1}{3} The tower is 13th century. The church was restored by E. W. Pugin in 1873. {2} During a watching brief three burials were encountered, two child burials and one adult female burial. No date has been attributed to them and the remains were left in situ. Finds recovered date from two periods, the 13th to 14th centuries and the 18th century. Finds include pottery sherds from both periods, animal bones, glass and two iron diamond-shaped-head nails, possibly from a coffin. SK 9797 2585. {4}{5} The church is of coursed limestone rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings, ashlar, lead and tiled roof with stone coped gables. The western tower is early 13th century with an ashlar broach spire of the same date. There is an early 14th century chancel and the south aisle dates to about 1300. In the west wall of the nave is a 12th century window and the scar of an earlier gable. In the porch, to either side on the stone benches are two early 14th century cross legged effigies of knights. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {6} Underneath an arched recess in the east wall of the porch is a limestone effigy of a knight that has damage including missing feet and the right spur. It dates to about 1280 to 1300. The effigy is clad entirely in deeply cut mail. The sword belt hangs loosely near the edge of the slab and the clothing features various folds. The effigy's style of mail is similar to only four in Lincolnshire and may come from a workshop outside the county. M. Downing suggests that the effigy might be that of Baldwin of Wake, who died in 1280, or his son Baron John, who died in 1300. Underneath an arched recess in the west wall of the porch is a second effigy of a knight. This effigy, also in limestone, is slightly later than the first and dates to about 1300 to 1325. Its lower legs are missing and it has other damage. The effigy has his hands raised in prayer and is clad entirely in realistic mail. The effigy has straight and shallow folds, not the characteristic flowing drapery of most Lincolnshire effigies. There is an unusual lack of shield or guige. Holles recorded the effigy in the south wall of the south aisle in about the 1630s. The identity of the knight is not known. {7}

Sources/Archives (7)

  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. BURTON COGGLES. SK92NE6,1965, D.A..
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p199.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. BURTON COGGLES. SK92NE:O,1983, D.E.S..
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2001. Drainage works at St. Thomas a Becket's Church, Burton Coggles. BCC01.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2001. Drainage works at St. Thomas a Becket's Church, Burton Coggles. LCNCC:2001.160.
  •  Index: Department of the Environment. 1986. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 2/22.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Downing, Mark. 2010. Medieval Military Monuments in Lincolnshire. No.5, p.25 and No.11, pp.32-33.

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Grid reference Centred SK 9796 2584 (28m by 21m)
Civil Parish BURTON COGGLES, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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