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Description: | PRN 70044
This site was believed to be the site of St Rumbold's church (PRN 70281), and is shown as such on the 1905 Ordnance Survey map. {1}{2}{3}
However, it has been identified as being the site of St Augustine's. {4}
It has been suggested that this may be the second of the churches built by Colswein in his new estate between 1066-1086. (However, it is now believed that Colswein's second church was actually St Clement's - see PRN 70531.) {8}{10}
This church is first mentioned in documentary sources in 1147. It was demolished in 1533-4 and there are frequent references in Common Council documents to the sale of its building stone and timber. {5}{8}
The dedication of this church may be to St Augustine of Canterbury rather than to St Augustine of Hippo, although this is uncertain. Its associated parish may have been relatively wealthy and prosperous due to its location near the wharves, and it is the only parish in Butwerk to have more than 10 inhabitants in 1428. Nevertheless, the church was still redundant by the 16th century. {6}
Tiles, timber, stone and the bells from the church were sold to various buyers including the Abbot of Bardney and parishioners of St Swithin's, although some stone was given to the Greyfriars to repair the convent, some was given to repair St Swithin's church and some was taken to repair 'Westgate Bridge'. {9}
Burials were seen during building work on the site in 1989, when the Lincolnshire Archives building was being constructed. {7} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1066 - 1533 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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