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The fine pink Horse Chestnut is just coming into flower.
©Kate Jewell
The church at Sedgebrook is dedicated to St Lawrence.
©Michael Patterson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Cut bench mark and bolt on the west face of the church tower. It was a branch mark on the 1GL Newark to Elton levelling line. See http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm25111 for description.
©Brian Westlake
Dist:0.1km<br/>Tomb slab with missing brass.
©J.Hannan-Briggs
Dist:0.1km<br/>The church at Sedgebrook, built of golden ironstone with Ancaster stone dressings, stands out in the words of Henry Thorold (“Lincolnshire Churches Revisited” 1989) as a “church of great distinction”. The oldest part of the church, the north arcade, is perhaps of the 12th century with construction continuing through to the close of the 15th century, culminating in the south chapel and chancel provided by Sir John Markham in 1468. Sir John Markham, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, obtained on 24th May 1468 for 11 guineas the King’s licence to found a perpetual Chantry of one chaplain to celebrate Divine Service daily at the altar of St Mary, Michael the Archangel, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, “for the good estate of the King, his consort, the said John and for their souls after death” – the Markham Chantry. Judge Markham’s own tomb stood on the south side of the eastern arch of the chapel. It was a plain altar tomb, since destroyed, but its slab – stripped of its brasses – remains on the pavement of the chapel. Over this tomb Judge Markham is said to have built a chamber in which he lived, spending his last years in prayer and meditation. Markham lost the royal favour through the summing up he gave to the jury of the case of Sir Thomas Coke, Lord Mayor of London, and was removed from office as Lord Chief Justice. He retired into private life with the better title of “The Upright Judge” and is celebrated in a Ballad of Sedgebrook. Viewed from the south, the south chapel stands out by being higher than the south aisle and by being separated from it by means of a stair turret in which the Sanctus bell still hangs. This spiral staircase also provided access to the wooden Rood Loft through a now blocked up doorway. To the south chapel corresponds a north chapel (now the home of the organ, built by Boyce & Son 1863 and restored in 1989) apparently designed as a burial place for the use of Newbo Abbey. This chapel was cut short at the east end by a former vestry – hence the clerestory-like east window of the chapel and the piscina outside the north door of the chancel. Pevsner describes the effect of the lavish adornment of the chancel and chapel as “almost barbaric”; sedilia with six little pendant gables, vaulted under, a piscina with its drain holes arranged around a Tudor rose with a credence shelf above, two very tall niches with high canopies set left and right of the east window with a similar arrangement in the chapel. The octagonal font is Norman, the carved oak pulpit is dated 1634, the choir stall bench ends include a feathered angel. The tower contains three bells of unknown dates. The church was restored in 1897. (Information from Church Leaflet by Rev Stuart Hadley)
©J.Hannan-Briggs
Dist:0.1km<br/>On the south wall is a small incised slab commemorating Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Markham. Around the rudely executed effigy is the inscription, now difficult to decipher: “HERE LIES DORETHEA, DAUGHTER OF JOHN MARKHAM, KNIGHT, AND ALICE HIS WIFE, WHO DIED 20TH DAY OF JANUARY A.D. 1494 ON WHOSE SOUL MAY GOD HAVE MERCY”
©J.Hannan-Briggs
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©J.Hannan-Briggs
Dist:0.1km<br/>See [[2903010]]
©J.Hannan-Briggs
Dist:0.1km<br/>Henry Bryceson of London, 1876. Pretty pipe stencilling. 2 Manual and pedals with 13 stops. Does not appear much altered or restored.
©J.Hannan-Briggs
Dist:0.2km<br/>15th century church primarily built of ironstone with limestone detailing.
©Kate Jewell
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©David Gearing
Dist:0.2km<br/>Difficult path to follow this one. See square SK 8637.
©Ken Brockway
Dist:0.3km<br/>A rare picture of the A52 without any traffic passing by. The village of Sedgebrook is beyond the hedge.
©Michael Patterson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Roadside daffs on Village Street in Sedgebrook
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking east across the flat fields in the Old Beck valley towards the wooded hillside at Barrowby Thorns. The A52 runs behind the hedge on the left.
©Trevor Rickard

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