dedicated to All Saints, has undergone several
transformations. This was one of the 222 parishes which possessed a
church before the Norman conquest, and it still contains a fragment (to
be noticed later on) which is apparently of Saxon origin. Both Weir in
his History (1828), and Saunders (1834) agree in stating that in the
early part of the 19th century the church was "totally destitute of
interest." _The Gazetteer_ of 1863 describes it vaguely as a "Gothic
structure." It was rebuilt in 1864, from designs by Mr. James Fowler,
Architect, of Louth, at a cost of 1,100 pounds, defrayed by J. Banks
Stanhope, Esq., Lord of the Manor; and was further repaired in 1891, by
public subscription. It consists of nave, chancel, vestry, north porch,
and small square tower at the north-west angle, with low spire containing
one bell. It is built chiefly of brick with facings of Ancaster stone.

In the north wall of the nave are a couple of two-light windows, in the
Perpendicular style; in the south wall are three two-light windows; all
these having bands of red and black brick alternately. In the west wall
are two single-light lancet windows, with an ox-eye window above. In the
chancel there is a small lancet window in the north wall, and a square
aumbrey. The east end has a three-light plain lancet window; beneath
which is a stone reredos, having three compartments filled with encaustic
tiles, having, as their designs, in the centre a cross in gilt, and Alpha
and Omega, within ox-eyes, on either side. In the south wall in front of
the vestry is a lancet-shaped doorway, and, west of it, an arcade of two
lancet apertures, supported by four columns of serpentine. Within the
vestry is a two-light lancet window; and let into the eastern wall is a
small slab, having four grotesque figures, one blowing a kind of bagpipe,
the others dancing. This is said to have been a portion of a "minstrel
pillar," it is apparently Saxon, and is probably a relic from the
original fabric. The chancel arch is of red and black bricks, in
alternate bands, the capitals nicely carved in stone, supported by small
serpentine columns. The pulpit is of Caen stone, having a cross within a
circle on the front panel, and one serpentine column. The chancel choir
stalls are of good modern oak; the sittings in the nave and the roof
being of pitch pine.

The font is the most remarkable feature of the church. It has a large
square bowl; the device on the ea