502 SEDGE BROOK. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'$
Davies Ernest, blacksmith Jachon John, wheehnight Public Secondary Bchool (Frank Draper Jnhn H. farmer Jackson Richard, shopkpr. Post office Upton M. A. head master) Dennis Lydia (Mrs.), cowkeeper Lamin Henry, farmer Staples Josiah, farmer SEMPRINGHAM-cum-POINTON and BIRTHORPE. SEMPRINGHAM is a large parish, inhabited principally in the rules being those of St. .Augustine for the monks, and that part known as Pointon, in the South Kesteven division of St. Benedict for the nnns, but they were not allowed ~ of the county, parts of Kesteven, Aveland wapentake, see each other except at the celebration of Ho:y Cam• Bourne petty sessional division, union and county court munion : the fonnder lived 106 yeaN, and before his death district, rural deanery of .Aveland No. 2, and ar~hdeaconry 13 houses of Gilbertines had been founded, containing and diocese of Linooln. Point<>n is 2 miles south from · 700 men and I,Joo women, and at the time of the dissolu Billingborough station, on the Bourne and Slenford branch tion the number had increa~ed to 25, the total yearly of the Great Northern railway, 3 south-east from Folking income of which, in modern value, amonnted to £ roo,ooo: ham, 8 north from Bourne and 106 from London. The Sir Gilber·t, who had devoted a great portion of his fortune church of St. .Andrew stands on an eminence overlooking to the .Abbey, waa canonized in 1202; on the surrendeY the Fen district, about three-quarters ·of a mile from of the priory it was given by Henry VTII. to Edward, Lord any residence now existing, but was formerly sur. Clinton, subsequently created Eatl of Lincoln, who built TOunded by a village: "it is a building of stone, in the a fine mansion out of the materials; but on the death Norman and Perpendicular styles, consisting of a of the second Earl in 1616, it was pulled down, and modern apsidal chancel, nave. of four ·bays, north aisle, only a few irregular mounds mark the site: the south porch and a plain but massive embattled central moated area of the priory can still be traced near the tower of Perpendicular date, with eight rich pinnacles, church : the Gilbertine order was the only one of and containing 3 bells: the nava and aisle, which English origin. The Crown and Heorge Smith esq. formed part o.f the priory church, are Norman: there of Horbling, are the principal landowners. The soil is a plain doorway of this period on the north side and is loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crop is corn, a very fine Norman aroh on the south side, with ancient but most of the land is devoted to grazing. The area. of doors of fir, splendidly ornamented with iron scrollwork: the township is 1,945 acres of land and 4 of water; rate the font is octagonal: there were formerly north and able value, £2,049; the population in 1901 was 68 in south transepts, but these, together with the chancel, the t<>wnship ; and the ecclesiastical pMish, which in were taken down and the materials sold: it was restored cludes Pointon and Birthorpe, had a population in 1901 in r868-g, at a cost of about £r,soo, furnished in part by of 519, which is also the total of the three civil divisions. Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, as impropriator and owner of half the pa.Tish: the north wall was wholly Sempringham Fen extends 4! miles to the east of the rebuilt from the foundation and extended, three out of Abbey church. 1Sempringbam !House, now a farm, is four of the tower arches opened, the roof renewed and about I mile east_ tho church il"esea.ted, the new seats being careful re productions of the old work: a stained window, the gift. POINTON is a pleasant village and town8hip, on the af iMrs. · Sann;!ers, was inserted on the north side of the road to 1Bourne and three-quarte.rs of a mile from the tower, and on the south ~ide is another, presented by .Abbey church, from which it is separated by fields; the -her husband, the Rev. J. C. K. Saunders M . .A. late rector bulk of the inhabitants of Sempringham parish live here. -of Friesthorpe and vicar here, 186r-9; there are also Christ church, an iron structure, was opened in 18~, memorials to their two daughters: another stained and there is als-o a W esleyan chapel. The Crown, window was given by Mr. W. H. Constable, {){ Cam Benjamin Smith esq. cl Horbling, who is lord of the bridge, who executed the other two windows: the manor, and EdwaTd Smith esq. of Horbling, are the ~hancel, rebuilt by the Crown, is in the Early English principal landowners. .A. noted breed of long-wOQlled style: the south porch, erected to commemorate the Lincolnshire sheep, upwards. of a century old, is main