St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe

St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe
St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe
	St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe, from the northwest
	St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe Location in Lincolnshire
	Coordinates: 53°21′08″N0°22′47″W / 53.3523°N 0.3797°W
OS grid reference	TF 079 852
Location	Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Churches Conservation Trust
History
Dedication	Saint Michael
Architecture
Functional status	Redundant
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	1 November 1966
Architect(s)	A. J. Wilson (restoration and rebuilding)
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic, Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	13th century
Completed	1835
Specifications
Materials	Limestone and brick; Slate roofs

Last updated February 23, 2019

St Michael's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the hamlet of Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,^[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.^[2] It stands in an isolated position adjacent to a partly moated farm to the east of the A46 road.^[2]^[3] The church is notable for two mediaeval monuments to members of the Buslingthorpe family.^[2]

Redundant church is a phrase particularly used to refer to former Anglican church buildings no longer required for regular public worship in the United Kingdom, but may refer to any disused church building around the world.

Buslingthorpe is a hamlet and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated half a mile east from the A46 at Faldingworth and 3 miles (5 km) south-west from Market Rasen.

Lincolnshire is a county in eastern England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders Northamptonshire in the south for just 20 yards (18 m), England's shortest county boundary. The county town is the city of Lincoln, where the county council has its headquarters.

History

The church dates from the 13th century, with alterations and additions in the following century.^[1] In 1835 it was restored and, other than the tower, was rebuilt in brick by Edward James Willson. The church stands on the site of a deserted mediaeval village.^[2] It was declared redundant in 1984.^[4]

Edward James Willson, F.S.A., (1787–1854) was an English architect, antiquary, architectural writer, and mayor of Lincoln in 1851-2.

Architecture

Exterior

St Michael's is constructed in coursed limestone rubble and yellow brick, with ashlar dressings. The roofs are in slate, with stone coped gables. Its plan is simple, and consists of a nave, a chancel and a west tower. The tower has two stages, is set on a plinth, and has a pyramidal roof. In the lower stage is a lancet window on the west side. The upper stage contains single-light bell openings with ogee heads on each side. There are three-light windows in the north wall of the nave and at the east end, and two similar windows on the south wall of the nave. The doorway is on the south side, and has a pointed head.^[1]

Course (architecture) layer of similar material in a structure, e.g. a row of bricks

A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. It can also be defined as a continuous row of any masonry unit such as bricks, concrete masonry units (CMU), stone, shingles, tiles, etc.

Limestone Sedimentary rocks made of calcium carbonate

Limestone is a sedimentary rock which is often composed of the skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, foraminifera, and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).

Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size, shape and texture; undressed especially as a filling-in. Rubble naturally found in the soil is known also as 'brash'. Where present, it becomes more noticeable when the land is ploughed or worked.

Interior

All the fittings date from the 19th century, other than the font; this has a re-used octagonal bowl. The east window contains fragments of 14th-century stained glass. One of the monuments to the Buslingthorpe family dates from the late 13th century. It consists of a tomb chest bearing the effigy of a knight, his feet resting on a lion, and his head on a cushion which is supported by angels. He is dressed in chain mail, a helmet and a surcoat. The tomb chest is decorated by a frieze carved with quatrefoils containing shields. The other monument dates from the early 14th century, and consists of a limestone tombstone with an inscription around its edge. It contains a brass showing a knight in chain mail and surcoat, his head resting on a pillow, and his hands holding a heart. It is one of the earliest military brasses in England.^[1]

A baptismal font is an article of church furniture used for baptism.

An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally restricted to certain contexts in a somewhat arbitrary way: recumbent effigies on tombs are so called, but standing statues of individuals, or busts, are usually not. Likenesses of religious figures in sculpture are not normally called effigies. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy in stone or metal placed on a tomb, or a less permanent "funeral effigy", placed on the coffin in a grand funeral, wearing real clothing.

External features

The churchyard contains the war grave of an Essex Regiment soldier of the First World War.^[5]

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars. The Commission is also responsible for commemorating Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action during World War II. The Commission was founded by Sir Fabian Ware and constituted through Royal Charter in 1917 named the Imperial War Graves Commission. The change to the present name took place in 1960.

The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 44th Regiment of Foot and the 56th Regiment of Foot.

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References

1 2 3 4 Historic England, "Church of St Michael, Buslingthorpe (1359510)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 9 April 2015
1 2 3 4 St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, Churches Conservation Trust , retrieved 2 December 2016
↑ Buslingthorpe, Streetmap, retrieved 7 February 2011
↑ Buslingthorpe: Church History, GENUKI , retrieved 7 February 2011
↑ HOLLOWAY, GEORGE, Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 1 March 2013

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[hg-1] 1 2 3 4 Historic England, "Church of St Michael, Buslingthorpe (1359510)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 9 April 2015

[cct-2] 1 2 3 4 St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, Churches Conservation Trust , retrieved 2 December 2016

[3] Buslingthorpe, Streetmap, retrieved 7 February 2011

[4] Buslingthorpe: Church History, GENUKI , retrieved 7 February 2011

[5] HOLLOWAY, GEORGE, Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 1 March 2013