• 484 PINCHBECK. LINCOLNSHIRE. (KELLY'd Parsons John B. but-cher :Turner Emma (Mrs.), shopkeepet Chappell Herbert, builder Peach John Matthew, cowkeeper, Vickers Thomas Henry, hawker Christian Rbt. farmer, Pode Hole frm Glen side IWaltham Albert, beer retailer Fairbank Thomas, blacksmith :Ranaon John B. builder Waltham John, farmer Freir Albert Henry, wheelwright Rawding Carolina (Mrs.), cottage fmr White Henry, shopkeeper, Glen side Mann James, farmer Riseley Annie (Miss), shopkeeper lViles John William, farmer Paling George, jun. blacksmith Rdbinson James, farmer Williamson Robt. farmer, Castle farm Roe John William, wheelwright Robinson John, frmr. Parson's Drove Willson John, farmer, South Fen IShotbolt John Robinson, farmer Rodgers William, market gardener Wright Ernest, shopkpr. Money Brdg Stevenson Arthur, beer retailer Rouse William, carrier Wright Jn. 'Ihe Fisherman's Boy P.H Strickland David, boot &i shoe maker Smith Arth. Harold, farmr. The Villa Swan Alfred, Fisherman's Arms P.H Smith Edward, farmer, Fengate PODE HOLE. Tate Anthony, engineer, Deeping Fen Smith John Thomas, cowkeeper COMMERCIAL. Drainage Smith Mary (Mrs.), pig keeper Allmand David J. cowkeeper Wallier John, cowkeeper, Swan farm Speed William, baker Branton Albert, pig dealer White Jane (~Irs. ), grocer &; baker, Tipler David, farmer, Northgate Branton George, cottage farmer Post office Tipler Frederick, fruit grower, florist Bromley John, market gardener Williamson Joseph, butcher k baker & bulb mer. Northgate nurseries , POINTON, see Sempringham, GREAT PONTON, supposed to be the" Ad PonLt!W" north-east corner of the chapel adjoining the chancel; his of the Romans, is a parish on the Great North road, arms appear also on the spandrels of the tower doorway, about a mile from Ermine Street and on the river supported by angels: there are 200 sittings. The register Witham, with a station on the main line of the Great dates from the year 1622. The living is a rectory, ne~ Northern railway and is 4 miles south from Grantham yearly value £432, including II acres of glebe, with resi­ and 102 from London, in the South Kesteven division of dence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since the county, parts of Kesteven, Spittlegate petty sessional 1882 ·by the Rev. Andrew Wood M.A. of Tl'inity College, division, Grantham soke, union and county court dis- CambridJle, and prebendary of Lincoln. The living is trict, rural deanery of South Grantham and arch- chargeable with a payment to two poor benefices in deaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church of the Lincoln, St. Faith's and St. Martin's, £xoo per annum Holy Cross, which occupies an elevated position near the to each. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Great Northern railway, is a building of stone in the chapels. Both here and at Little Ponton many Roman best and purest form of the Perpendicular style, con- coins and urns have been found. The Earl of Dysart, sisting of chancel with north aisle, nave of three bays, who is lord of the manor, and Christopher Hatton aisles, south porch and a tower at the we!!lt end, 78 feet Turnor esq. of Stoke Rochford, are the chief landowners. in height, and containing 1:) bells: the oldest feature is The soil is various; subsoil, magnesian limestone. The part of a finely proportioned and lofty arcade of early chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and roots. The area. 14th century work, on the north side of the chancel; is 2,741 acres of land and 3 of water; rateable value, but the easternmost arch is closed with masonry, so as £s,g6g; population in 19II, 426. to form a vestry ; the other incloses the organ ; the rest Parish Clerk, William Hill. of the fabric is Perpendicular: a newel staircase to the Post Office.-George Edward Parker, sub-postmaster. rood loft remains on the south side of the chancel arch Letters arrive from Grantham at 6.45 a. m. &; I. 15 and the chancel contains a shelved aumbry and a sedile: p.m. & are dispatched at 2.45 t& 6.15 p.m. '!'he tele- the massive tower, though erected so late as 1519, is a graph office is at the railway station, which is closed splendid example of Perpendicular work and in excel- on sundays. The nearest money order office is at lent condition; it has double buttresses, relieved by London road, Grantham richly decorated canopied niches; over the base mould- Public Elementary (Endowed) Schools, founded in 1717, ings is a band of quatrefoil work with shields bearing by William Archer esq. & endowed by him with two various devices, and over the belfry windows is a cottages & 39a. 4P· in respect of which 4a. 2r. I3P· similar band; the whole is finished with an elaborately were allotted in 1773; by an order of the Charity panelled parapet and eight crocketed pinnacles: on the Commissioners, dated July 7• 1867, the school trust, west face of the tower are the Royal arms and supporters which had lapsed, was revived & the ·management surmounted by a crown, and on the north and soutp faces ve~ted in trustees, including the rector for the time bhe legend" Thynke, and Thanke God of all." The builder being; the yearly income of the charity is about £8o; was one Antbony Ellys, merchant of the staple of Calais, the mixed school will hold 120 children ; average at- who purchased lands here and built himself a house near tendance, So ; & the infants' school, 39 children; the church; the remains of his tomb, on which his average attendance, 20; John Thomas Cookson, mastr armorial bearings were carved, formerly stood in the Railway Station, Charles H. Gunson, station master Southern Miss, The Pines Crabtree Eli (exors. of), millers Pearson Thomas, blaclrsmith Wood Rev. Preb. Andw. M.A.(rector), (water), Ponton mill Pearson Wm. Jackson,farmr. & oversr Rectory Gollin Charles, wheelwright Rick Daniel, farmer COMMEBCIA.L. Kightoy Albert A. boot maker Sentanpe Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Bowles Tom, farmer Lee David, farmer SPntance Joseph Beeson, farmer Britten Charles, Blue Horse P.H Netherclift Alfred Keetley, farmer & Todd George, butcher Crabtree .Arthur Southern, farmer assistant overseer . Townsend Brothers, wheelwrights 1 Parker George Edward,baker, Post of! Watchorn Errtest, grocer LITTLE PONTON is a parish on the river Witham, ingeniously constructed above the west window for the 1! miles north from Ponton station and 2! south from bell : there are several good Decorated windows, and in .Grantham, in the South Kesteven division of the county, the chancel is an aumbry and a piscina ; there is also parts of Kesteven, Winnibriggs wapentake, Spittlegate a slab inscribed to William Thorold, lord of this manor, petty sessional division, Grantham union and county court ob. 1725, and monuments to the Pennyman family, who district, rural deanery of South Grantham and arch­ were landowners here, some good carved oak work, deaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. originally belonging to Ripon Cathedral, and three Gathlac is an ancient building of stone, consist·ing of stained windows : the church affords 150 sittings. The chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and has one bell: rf:'gister dates from the year 1729. The living is a originally a Norman church, the only remains of that style rectory, net yearly value [IfJO, including 25 acres of now existing are comprised in a very fine chancel arch g-lebe, with residencE:', in the gift of Christopher Hatton and two fragments of carving inserted on each side of Turnor esq. and held since 1885 by the Rev. Pennyman .the west window of the nave : to the Early English style Ralph W orsley M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge . belongs the southern elevation, including the inner door­ Little Ponton Hall, a mansion of stone, on the eastern -way of the porch, a double lancet above a single lancet acclivity of the valley, with deli~htful pleasure grounds, in the chancel wall, and a Transitional arcade of three is the residence of Major William Longstaffe J.P. bays in the north aisle : there was once a transeptal Christopher H. Turnor esq. of Stoke Rochford, is lord chapel, the arch of which is still visible in the south of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is various ; wall, and within it is now a window: the porch is subsoil, stone, gravel and sand. The chief crops are comparatively modern, and the north aisle, which had wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,980 acres of land previously disappeared, was renewed on its old founda­ and 7 of water; rateable value, £5,429; population is tions about t85o, and a vestry added: the western front Ign, x8g. was rebuilt in 1657• and a curious arched aperture .