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St Mary's Church Building |
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It’s easy to say that the church is extraordinary - probably most churches are.
After all they weren’t built to a standard design. What makes St. Mary’s extraordinary is that a the church we have now is in all important respects the church that local people went to at the time of Joan of Arc, the Hundred years war and the end of the Lancastrian dynasty. St. Mary’s has hardly changed. Bits have been rebuilt and restored and some parts completely renewed, but its appearance to the people of 1420 would have been much as it is to us today. If you compare this with the other churches in the group the difference is striking: Both North Cotes and Waithe were almost completely rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century by Fowler of Louth. Grainsby has bits that are certainly Norman and possibly Saxon but most of it is seventeenth century and it’s hard to see just what has happened to it over the years. North Thoresby has been enormously altered over the centuries, but it is moderately easy to see when bits were added and bits fell down, though some mysteries and puzzles remain. So St. Mary’s is a sort of time capsule, giving us a view of a church that people twenty generations ago would have valued and cherished. The following links give more information about the building: http://www.poulton.info/familyhistory/marshchapel.htm
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