Church Of St Peter, Holton-le-Clay
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Church Of St Peter, Holton-le-Clay
The Church of St Peter is the Grade II* listed Anglican parish church for the village of Holton-le-Clay in Lincolnshire. It is dedicated to St Peter and consists of chancel, nave, and an Battlement, embattled tower with three bells. It is built of Course (architecture), coursed and squared ironstone and limestone rubble with red and brown brick with plain grey concrete tiled roofs. St Peter's forms part of a united benefice with the churches of St. Nicholas in North Cotes and St. Peter and St. Paul in Tetney. The square unbuttressed tower, chancel and nave arch are of Anglo-Saxon architecture, Saxon or of very early Norman date of the 11th-century. The tower arch also dates from the 11th-century and is tall and narrow with a rounded head. In the west wall can be seen traces of a blocked door with a rounded head and in the blocking a 13th-century lancet window. The nave is partly built of massive square stones and in the north wall can be seen a blocked 16th-century four-centred ar ...
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Holton-le-Clay is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, around south of Grimsby. History Ditched enclosures and boundaries of possible prehistoric or Roman origin have been found, and earthworks of Medieval origin, with toft and croft, tofts and crofts, are evident within and around the village. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the village is written as "Holtone". It was within the Manorialism, manor of Tetney in the then Lindsey (government district), Lindsey North Riding, and prior to the Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest under the lordships of a Swein and Thorgisl. By 1086 the manor had fallen under the lordship of Ivo Taillebois. In 1885 ''Kelly's Directory'' noted a parish area of acres, and an 1881 population of 283. Production of crops was chiefly of wheat, barley, oats, turnips and seeds. Principal landowners included the Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough, Earl of Scarborough Deputy Lieutenant, DL, and George ...
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